MS Office - Mac and PC?

[Susan]

My daughter purchased a Mac for college and now we are wondering best way to
go for office applications. MS does have Office for Mac. Would that mean
that if a Word document is created on a PC, it would be able to be opened on
a Mac with MS Office and vice-versa? Are documents compatible regardless of
the OS?

Thanks for information.

Susan

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Yes, they are cross-compatible.

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After furious head scratching, Susan asked:

| My daughter purchased a Mac for college and now we are wondering best
| way to go for office applications. MS does have Office for Mac.
| Would that mean that if a Word document is created on a PC, it would
| be able to be opened on a Mac with MS Office and vice-versa? Are
| documents compatible regardless of the OS?
|
| Thanks for information.
|
| Susan

 

[Harlan Grove]

Yes, they are cross-compatible.

....

True to an extent. Office 2008 for Macs doesn't provide VBA. Not a
problem if the student in question would only need Office to write
papers etc and doesn't need macros. OTOH, if this student decides to
major in business, economics, or other similar subjects and needs to
use, say, Excel workbooks containing macros (try doing stochastic
simulation without macros), Office 2008 would be a very, very bad
choice.

 

[Rob]

My daughter purchased a Mac for college and now we are wondering best way to
go for office applications. MS does have Office for Mac. Would that mean
that if a Word document is created on a PC, it would be able to be opened on
a Mac with MS Office and vice-versa? Are documents compatible regardless of
the OS?

Thanks for information.

Susan

I would recomend iWork - i used office at Uni - and in my final year
in moved to a mac and used iWork and iWork will open and save .doc
formats and other ms formats!!! Plus iWork is like half the price of
office.

 

[Harlan Grove]

I would recomend iWork - i used office at Uni - and in my final year
in moved to a mac and used iWork and iWork will open and save .doc
formats and other ms formats!!! Plus iWork is like half the price of
office.

If price is the main concern, NOTHING beats OpenOffice. Gotta get used
to a non-Mac UI, but it handles all Office 2003 file types and runs on
any kind of computer the student in question is likely ever to use.