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Aug 20, 2014 1:00 PM in response to mattblanchetteby Kappy,All Mac Pros come with disk drives. Office 2010 is for Windows and will not work on a Mac. You need Office 2011.
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Aug 20, 2014 1:13 PM in response to Kappyby Grant Bennet-Alder,Kappy is right -- even if his Mac has only a Solid State Drive, that is still considered a Disk Drive.
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Aug 20, 2014 1:17 PM in response to Grant Bennet-Alderby Chris CA,Methinks the OP may referring to a SuperDrive/CD/DVD drive.
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Aug 20, 2014 1:21 PM in response to mattblanchetteby lllaass,Do you mean an optical disk drive? Recent MacBook Prods and the 2013 Mac Pro desktop do not have optical drives.
If you need access to an optical drive then you can use remote disk
DVD or CD sharing: Using Remote Disc
or use an external USB optical drive
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Aug 20, 2014 1:36 PM in response to mattblanchetteby vett93,I just installed Office 2011 for Mac on my Mac Pro. You can buy it from Amazon and download the software. Or you can buy a product key elsewhere and download from Microsoft.
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Aug 20, 2014 1:39 PM in response to vett93by Chris CA,vett93 wrote:
I just installed Office 2011 for Mac on my Mac Pro. You can buy it from Amazon and download the software. Or you can buy a product key elsewhere
Why should the OP buy a product key elsewhere?
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Aug 20, 2014 1:46 PM in response to vett93by Allan Eckert,Far cheaper yet is LibraOffice. It is free.
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Aug 20, 2014 1:51 PM in response to Allan Eckertby vett93,Apple has Pages for word processing. It comes with OS X. But it is not 100% compatible with MS Word. That is the key reason for buying MS Office for Mac.
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by Grant Bennet-Alder,Aug 20, 2014 1:53 PM in response to Allan Eckert
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Aug 20, 2014 1:55 PM in response to mattblanchetteby RJ Jenkins,Use open office. Here is a great site for other Open source programs .
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Aug 20, 2014 2:09 PM in response to RJ Jenkinsby vett93,Are there any reasons to use these open source office products instead Apple's own Page/Numbers/Keynote on Mac?
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Aug 20, 2014 2:14 PM in response to vett93by RJ Jenkins,They are free, more important, they are very compatible with Microsoft office. You can open and save doc, xls, ppt files with no conversion. If you know word, the menu are almost the same, no steep learning code. State of Mass uses it I believe.