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Upgrading Question? Microsoft Office for Mac

Upgrading Question? Microsoft Office for Mac

Upgrading Question?

Posted: 21 Oct 2007 10:07 AM PDT

On Oct 21, 1:57 pm, CyberTaz <cast.net> wrote: 

Thank You!

Does Mac Office '08 work with iPages?

Posted: 21 Oct 2007 09:33 AM PDT

Your Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files will open fine in both MacOffice
2004/2008 and iWork (Pages is just the word-processing part of iWork).
There might be some adjustments if you used certain complex features,
and people have had problems with cross-platform graphics. But both Mac
and Win Office used the same basic file format from WinOffice 97 to
MacOffice 2004.

But you'll want to keep Office 2000 in Parallels for Publisher anyhow
(or to export the Publisher files to Word), so that will always be a
backup if necessary.

Probably better to use Pages to replace Publisher than Word, by the way.

MacOffice will *not* open your Pages/Numbers/Keynote files, but you can
use Pages/Numbers/Keynote to Export into the MacOffice format.



parkpointer wrote: 

Does Entourage in Mac Office '08 work with Mac Mail or is it a separate mail program?

Posted: 21 Oct 2007 09:26 AM PDT

I'm still not totally following--but you know what? Doesn't really
matter. Download the Office 2004 Test Drive, install it, and try using
it. That's really the only way to tell if the proposed workflow will
work for you. Whether you do certain work in Windows or Mac or
integrate it all together is mostly just a matter of personal preference
based on which programs you would rather be using for a particular
task. Only using the programs will let you figure out if there are any
things that will force you to use one or the other.

Just be sure to REMOVE the Test Drive before installing a full version
of Mac Office.



parkpointer wrote: