Just purchased a new Mac and need Word, etc. etc. I was wondering how to/if I could install the Microsoft Office 2007 disc on my Mac.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Other than installing windows itself on that machine and running your version of office in that, no. You would need to purchase an OS X version of Office.
You need Windows 7...either using Boot Camp or a virtual box. You could also look at Office for Mac...might be just as cheap & do what you want.
The only real reason you might need to install Office 2007 on your Mac is if you need Microsoft Access, and don't want to go through Filemaker Pro for Windows to migrate Access to Filemaker Pro. Once in Filemaker Pro format, it can be put on Filemaker Pro for the Mac. Numerous applications for download and online offer free to nearly free access to Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents, including LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Neo Office, Google Docs, and Zoho Docs. This would be much cheaper than installing a database on your Mac and PC, if Access is not part of the equation.
But, is there anything that offers fully compatible Excel scripting/macro capability? That's the thing that makes me stick with Office - alas, I have hundreds of Excel VBA scripts and macro's that I cannot work without.
Not really. Depending on Macros is actually very unwise. Some versions of Office even disable this feature entirely, because of the security issues implied. It may be time to find alternatives to using Macros if you value the security of your data.
Not an option however - some of these in house scripts are very large, very complicated, and very specific to our work. A couple of us actually do use perl and python scripts on text versions of some of these files (the really large data files that are just too big to work with as spreadsheets anyway), but for the none IT science staff, that is never going to fly, unfortunately.
You will have to check with Microsoft then if either Excel 2008 or Excel 2011 will be able to run the scripts in question. If not, then running some version of Windows on your Mac is your only option. And here is how: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2741
I have Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows XP and just got a Macbook Pro. Is there any way to install MO2007 on my new Mac?
