Of course, once you leave, that supposedly changes. They send you the media along with the product key, and that pricing remains for as long as you're with the company. ![]() The way that it works at my company is that you can buy the entire Office Suite for $10.99, yes $10.99. Also, if you work for a large corporation, you might want to check if they offer employee discounts on the Microsoft products such as the Office Suite. Works great now, but I am sorry to not be a pure Mac. Sadly, I had to purchase the Microsoft Office program and install it. I went to many a 1:1 meeting at my local Apple store and was unable to resolve the problem. I particularly had difficulty with words and photos crossing into each others spaces. I get many work flyers and presentations in the Word/Excel/PowerPoint format, and, try as I did, I was unable to make changes and forward the documents without the recipients complaining that they would come through jumbled. I bought the iWorks package and tried hard to use it. I tried to keep my Mac 'unadulterated' when I made the switch to Macbook. Of course some formatting issues might not be exactly the same.Īnswered by Mark B from Sunnyvale. If it's for personal use, you could try option 3 first and see how far that gets you. If it's for work, I'd go with option 2 and get them to pay for it. It's a free open source 'clone' of Office for the Mac, currently offered by Sun/Oracle. Or maybe buy an older copy and then upgrade it. You could try to get a 'light' version that just has Word and Excel, for example, if that's all you need. 2: You can buy MS Office for the Mac, though I don't know the prices. You have at least 3 options: 1: Get iWork for the Mac, which can read and write MS Office docs. There is a free demo version - so before buying MS Office take a look at the free trial.Īnswered by Andreas S. ![]() You can load and save files in Microsoft Word format (even.docx files). I will not go back to Word or Excel because iWork with Pages and Numbers has all you need when you are a normal Office user. ![]() About Microsoft Word: I recently switched from Microsoft Word and Office to iWork'09 which is a great Office Package that comes with Pages, Numbers and Keynote (Word, Excel and Powerpoint) for a nice price of $79. †Refinements in Mac OS X Snow Leopard are listed on Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard 'What's New?'. Some examples of these are VMWare Fusion, and Parallels. Run a VM and when prompted to upgrade hardware compatibility do so and then once at the Windows Desktop VMware Tools should automatically be updated to the latest version however if it doesn't update automatically then do it manually. Finally, you can look into virtualization software. Also you can use OS X's Boot Camp feature if you would like to run Word natively in Windows. Microsoft has released Microsoft Office for OS X, which can be purchased in an Apple Store. For your final question on Word, you have some options. You do need to be sure your iMac meets the system requirements, which mainly is that it contains an Intel processor. As far as your question of benefits to upgrading, yes there are some new features and fixes in Mac OS X Snow Leopard† that many will find beneficial. Mac OS X Snow Leopard is version 10.6 which you do not currently own, but can be purchased for $29 from any Apple Store. The.8 in 10.5.8 means there have been 8 updates applied to the base 10.5.0 version. Best Answer: CW, If your iMac has 10.5.8, then you have Mac OS X Leopard.
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