Q: Office for mac compatibility with windows computers

The Mac version of Microsoft Office for Mac has less features than the PC version. Otherwise they are the same.

What you can do is to install Windows on your computer and then install PC Microsoft Office. You can install WIndows on a Mac by:

- Using Apple's BootCamp

How to install Windows using Boot Camp - Apple Support

Not that all versions of Windows all not supported.

- Install a virtual machine app on your Mac and install WIndows on the virtual machine. There is the free VirtualBox and the paid Parallels as well as others. I find Parallels easier to use than VirtualBox

FOr both options yoo have to purchase a Windows licence.

Parallels

VirtualBox

VM Fusion

ant785 wrote:

 

Hi there,

 

I run a mid 2012 macbook pro (8gb ram, 2.9 GHz Intel Core i7). I am going back to school to do a teaching qualification, and am wandering what to do regarding laptops. Pretty much all of the university and placement schools will run windows computers. I am quite fond of my mac and don't to give it up unless using it for this purpose is going to cause me problems.

 

My question is; if i am going to stick with my mac is the best option to: purchase a copy of MS office for Mac, or am i more likely to avoid compatibility issues by installing windows on my mac and using a windows version of MS office....or should I get a windows computer?

 

The laptop use is not going to be particularly heavy computationally, but the main use will be Excel, Powerpoint and Word and it would be a bit of a disaster if prepared lessons etc wont work on school / university computers due to compatibility.

 

Thanks

 

I use both. That way I can share docs between the two. It won't hurt.