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post #1 of 19
7/6/06 at 12:02pm
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Both my sister and I are getting MacBook's for college (her freshman/white, me a senior (replacing my POS Dell)/black) and is it possible to just buy one copy of MS Office and load it on to both or ours, or could I take my friend who already has Office on their Mac and load it on mine? Never owned a Mac so I'm not sure how it works. Thanks!
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post #2 of 19
7/6/06 at 1:00pm
legally no. it "should work" fine though. just dont overdue it.
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post #3 of 19
7/6/06 at 2:39pm
I'm not sure about Office for Mac, but some versions of MS Office can be legally installed on two machines. The rational was you could buy Office and install a copy on your desktop and a second copy on your laptop for traveling. I don't remember offhand which versions (small Business, Professional, Professional Enterprise) had this feature or if it is even offered anymore, I would suggest checking the MS site or possibly contacting MS to find out for sure if the version you are looking at getting can do this.
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post #4 of 19
7/6/06 at 4:38pm
Instead of doing that, check your university tech dept, they probably sell software, such as ms office, for cheap. I was able to pick-up one from my university for $12.
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post #5 of 19
7/6/06 at 5:00pm
12$? wowsa

its not like windows, you dont have to activate it, just input product key.
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post #6 of 19
7/6/06 at 5:53pm
or you can go the free and legal route and check out NeoOffice
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post #7 of 19
7/6/06 at 8:38pm
Anyone know of a good office alternative that is already in universal binary? would rather not have to run all this software under rosetta if possible.
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post #8 of 19
7/6/06 at 11:18pm
Not if you want Word and Excel files to work properly. None of the "free" alternatives to date have reliably imported Office files correctly.
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post #9 of 19
7/6/06 at 11:24pm
OpenOffice 2.0 is very good about going through MS's formats, I go back and forth all the time and I really have never suffered problems besides an occasional messed up formating (spaces and tabs)..but even that was pretty much limited to the OpenOffice 1.0 formats.
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post #10 of 19
7/7/06 at 7:45pm
I think openoffice is not yet in universal binary though so it will run slowly on macbooks with intel processors because it is running through rosetta translation. Does anyone know of an office program that is in universal binary?
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post #11 of 19
7/7/06 at 7:56pm
with a little effort you can compile OOo from source... again, it will require effort and TIME. I understand its not an alternative for everyone, but something to consider.

Sorry...fresh out of ideas. What about iWork or whatever the hell its called?
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post #12 of 19
7/8/06 at 1:07am
Actually it does look like iwork is universal right now, maybe ill give taht a try until office comes out in universal binary.
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post #13 of 19
7/10/06 at 12:01pm
iWork is universal.

Sorry, but I specifically tried openoffice 2.0, and it did terrible at correctly understanding Word and Excel.
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post #14 of 19
7/10/06 at 2:29pm
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Originally Posted by Joelist
Sorry, but I specifically tried openoffice 2.0, and it did terrible at correctly understanding Word and Excel.
to each his own, i use OOo on a regular basis and haven't had a problem with .doc and .xls (? is that the extension) formats going to and from MS-Office for mac or windows since OOo 1.x series more than a year ago. and for being free software, it really gives MS a run for its money.
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post #15 of 19
7/10/06 at 3:45pm
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Originally Posted by SHNAKE
Actually it does look like iwork is universal right now, maybe ill give taht a try until office comes out in universal binary.
yeh, u can't go wrong with iWork, particularly if u buy online with the student discount ($59). if u want to avoid formatting issues just save as RTF and then u can move it to Word, OOo, or what have you.
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post #16 of 19
7/11/06 at 7:56am
Check out NeoOffice. Runs on both PPC and Intel Macs

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15797
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post #17 of 19
7/11/06 at 10:46am
A while back I was looking for some office productivity software. I tried out iwork, open office, and MS Office test drive. Out of the three I thought MS office was the best. You may be interested to know that Microsoft is offering a $50 rebate for office 2004 student and teacher edtion. So the total price comes out to $78.89(after rebate). The student and teacher version gives you three seperate Product keys so you can install it on three different computers. Here's a link to macmall so you can read more about it:

http://www.macmall.com/macmall/shop/...pno~399933.asp
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post #18 of 19
7/11/06 at 4:52pm
The only problem is that office 2004 is not universal binary yet and runs pretty darn slow
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post #19 of 19
7/11/06 at 6:38pm
slower than slow!
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