using microsoft office: I've always had a PC and am thinking of switching - how easy is it to use Microsoft Office (including Word, Excel, and Outlook) on the Mac and to email those files to PC users?
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Once you get used to the slightly different keyboard, you will love using a Mac for Office. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac is absolutely compatible with other versions of Office (make sure you have the latest updates installed if you work with Office 2007 (and its new "Microsoft Office Open XML" format files). Apple's Mac OS X "aqua" look and feel looks great! Try it out at any Apple or CompUSA store -- they almost always have Office 2004 installed. Microsoft has a demo to try before you buy if you want to try it on your new Mac. Don't buy the Professional Edition. The new Parallels software makes it obsolete. You can also run your PC version of Office using Parallels (under your copy of XP) and be assured of compatibility.
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There are apps that are equivalent to or better than Microsoft office, in my opinion. I have WP Office(Kingsoft), Google Docs, and OfficeSuite installed and they are amazing! There are others to choose from but these are the top apps and the best, from my experience. (Some apps do not support some documents, so I mainly use Kingsoft). Hope you found this helpful! :)P.S you may want add Adobe reader, also!
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Files such as txt, doc, pdf, and other cross-platform files can be transferred over to a Mac from a PC as long as you have formatted the hard drive correctly (exFAT). I'd definitely recommend reading up on the drive format and transferring files as there are a lot of great online resources. Keep in mind that .exe or executable files (applications) are not cross platform and therefore you can't open up MS Word from a PC on a Mac. However, documents, videos, etc. should all have some cross-platform application that can read/write them when required. Although, some content may need to be transformed (video formats on PC aren't super kind on Mac). One final note - fonts. You may have awesome files that are formatted with great fonts and the like on a Mac or PC. These layouts don't translate well in Word or Powerpoint due to the differences in fonts from one platform to the next. PDF is a great way to ensure accurate layout, but expect layouts to shift if fonts differ from one computer to the next. PS I use Unix, PC and Mac, so I have a lot of ways to transfer content between the three (although I use UNIX primarily for serving web content and programming, so that's not that relevant here). Also, if you want to run Windows on a Mac, I would recommend looking into Parallels or Boot Camp. I prefer Parallels because I can have Windows apps open along with Mac apps at the same time. Just make sure you beef up on RAM and processor speeds. Knowledge is power, so make sure you use the web to fill in your knowledge gaps. Don't want to lose data!
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Microsoft's Office with "Word" has never been included with Windows 7 Home Premium. It is purchased individually as a separate product. Back 2 or 3 years ago MS office was included in most new laptop and PC purchases but this has also stopped being true. What most new laptops and PC's offer is Microsoft Office starter. This is a reduced functionality Word and Excel with advertising. Pretty much useless. There is "Open Office" which is free, fully functional and compatible to Microsoft office. Just Google around for it, you'll find it. There is also Google business apps which is finally beginning to cut into Microsoft's market share, however... it is cheap, but not free. Good Luck!
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It does not come with MS Office, but you can download Apple's corresponding applications (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) for free. In my opinion the apple applications are better, but they are different so you will need to spend a little time learning how to use them to their best potential.
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Yes. There are the basic microsoft office programs like all those you mentioned above. Keep in mind the other programs like access that are a part of the MS Office family for windows are not available for mac. For those situations you may run a virtual machine on your mac. Other programs in case you're interested like SPSS are also not available for mac but as mentioned previosly you may run them through a virtual machine.
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Not exactly sure but Office 2013 is out making this Office 2011 for MAC version an "old version". That being said I take my .doc and .ppt's to church where we use different versions of Office (2003, 2007, 2010) on several different PC's and the Office MAC documents work without issue. I'm very happy with the program.
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Not sure. The MSOffice programs that I ran on this machine were opened by an Apache OpenOffice suite that can you download online for free. I never bought MSOffice for Mac. But it does not look like you can simply and barely take an MSOffice for Windows and make it run on this machine. If I understood correctly your inquiry. There is an adaptation program for that.
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Is it a surprise that they don't (and won't) support Macs. I have both Mac and PC computers, because there just are not Mac owners out there to justify a company doubling their software budget to support both platforms. I use this on my PC and it is worth its weight in gold
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Original package is in the trash, I have microsoft office for MAC OX installed with no problems, works fine and recently i updated to the mac ox yosemite software and microsoft office still works fine
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I'd say 'yes'. I currently have a Dell PC with Windows 2007 and Office 2007, and when it came time to use files created by Word 2000, there was no problem--it was fairly automatic. At most, you might need to right-click on the file, click on Properties and then Compatibility, but it's been my experience that MS is smarter than most of us, and that it just takes care of that. Boogey on!
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I have only used office mac for university, so cannot really say if there is much difference as compared to home/ school mac.But its a good deal. Also you might want to check some Excel functions that i found were missing and i had to download them using Excel Stat plus which is free to download.
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I'm not totally sure. I know many Apple products will not run MS-Office modules (Like iPhones and iPads). There should be no reason you cannot run this if you have virtual partitions on your Mac like "Parallels", but I don't think it will run without these additions.
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I would highly recomend iWork because it cost less and you can do all the things that Microsoft Word does. Since you already have a macbook download the trial version of iWork. If you need further help with your decision watch some comparisons on YouTube. This was how I made up my mind to go with iWork. I realized the Microsoft Word program on Mac is not the same as it is on Windows. Since I'm going to be forced to learn a new program might as well go with iWork since it is affordable and seems to offer more options than Microsoft Word. Seriously look up the videos on YouTube you are going to be impressed with all the things you can do with iWork.
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Download was within a few minutes, I can use the program on my MAC and then work the same document on a Microsoft computer. yes back and forth very nice program. If you are use to the Microsoft Office you will catch on quick with the MAC style program. GREAT BUY!!!! contact me at lschubkegel at yahoo if you need more information..
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You have to get the MAC version of Microsoft Office so that it will be compatible. If you have a dual operating system installed then you could install the 2011 Microsoft office for Windows software. I hope this helps you.
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The machine is old, but if your MacBook runs Word, then you can probably transfer the document to it. I have always been a PC user and that is what is used in my district.