Will Office 2004 professional work on intel mac

[bluetide]

I know it sound strange, im a student i can buy student teacher for
£100, or i can use a authorized Microsoft education seller and get pro
for just £50. according to the Microsoft mac site they say use s&t or
standard as virtual pc dont work on and intel mac. but my question is
will pro install on a intel mac as all i want is word and excel and
powerpoint. also does the install let you choose the componet you want
to install or does it have to install VPC anyway?

 

[Diane Ross]

I know it sound strange, im a student i can buy student teacher for
£100, or i can use a authorized Microsoft education seller and get pro
for just £50. according to the Microsoft mac site they say use s&t or
standard as virtual pc dont work on and intel mac. but my question is
will pro install on a intel mac as all i want is word and excel and
powerpoint. also does the install let you choose the componet you want
to install or does it have to install VPC anyway?

I'm 99% sure that the VPC install is separate from Office install. I do
however, suggest that when you install Office that you also install
Entourage. It won't take up much space and could cause problems with future
updates.

 

[bluetide]

I'm 99% sure that the VPC install is separate from Office install. I do
however, suggest that when you install Office that you also install
Entourage. It won't take up much space and could cause problems with future
updates.

so will it let me install fine just as-long as i dont start up VPC?

 

[Diane Ross]

so will it let me install fine just as-long as i dont start up VPC?

Since I haven't opened a Pro version to see the disks inside, I would assume
that there is an Office install disc and a VPC install disk. Office and VPC
are separate products. Pro just bundles them together.

 

[bluetide]

Since I haven't opened a Pro version to see the disks inside, I would assume
that there is an Office install disc and a VPC install disk. Office and VPC
are separate products. Pro just bundles them together.

Thank you for clearing that up

 

[CyberTaz]

Just for confirmation: you can add another 1% to Diane's 99% certainty - VPC
is a completely separate disk with completely separate documentation &
completely independent installation at the user's discretion.

Regards |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[John McGhie]

Yes, I'm running a Pro version here on an Intel Mac.

As Diane says, there are two disks in the package. The VPC and Windows disk
will simply eject if you try to install it

If you install Bootcamp or Parallels on you Intel Mac, you can use the
Windows XP licence that comes with Pro to install Windows. However the
Windows XP installer on the disk will refuse to install outside of VPC. The
easiest way around that is to borrow a normal Windows XP disk from someone
and install using the Windows licence key you own, printed on the back of
your Windows CD

Hope this helps

so will it let me install fine just as-long as i dont start up VPC?

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[bluetide]

Yes, I'm running a Pro version here on an Intel Mac.

As Diane says, there are two disks in the package. The VPC and Windows disk
will simply eject if you try to install it

If you install Bootcamp or Parallels on you Intel Mac, you can use the
Windows XP licence that comes with Pro to install Windows. However the
Windows XP installer on the disk will refuse to install outside of VPC. The
easiest way around that is to borrow a normal Windows XP disk from someone
and install using the Windows licence key you own, printed on the back of
your Windows CD

Hope this helps




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hi i have received the disks office installed fine i tried to install
XP pro via paraells but it told me my key is not valid. am i using the
wrong version of windows? does VPC have its own product key? how many
keys should i have?

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

hi i have received the disks office installed fine i tried to install
XP pro via paraells but it told me my key is not valid. am i using the
wrong version of windows? does VPC have its own product key? how many
keys should i have?

I'm not sure what your immediate problem is, but VPC will NOT work on an
Intel mac. I think the version of XP Pro is tied to VPC and therefore can
not be installed separately.

 

[bluetide]

hi i have received the disks office installed fine i tried to install
XP pro via paraells but it told me my key is not valid. am i using the
wrong version of windows? does VPC have its own product key? how many
keys should i have?

found out as it is a STUDENT MEDIA/At HOME MEDIA XP Isnt bundled in
the package

 

[CyberTaz]

Yeah Bob - I'm pretty sure you're correct on that...

You can install any copy of Windows XP in VPC, but the copy that comes
*with* VPC can't be installed elsewhere. I "think" I recall seeing a
workaround somewhere for using VPC-XP for a standalone installation, but I

 

[John McGhie]

Yeah, there is a hack-around, and I can't remember it either

Basically, if you can find the i386 folder within the Windows XP CD and drag
that to a separate folder, the setup.exe program within that should run.
Start Parallels and drag setup.exe to its black command window. The product
key you must use will be the Windows product key that was supplied in the
Mac Office Pro bundle.

Mac Office Pro has TWO product keys, one for Office and one for Windows.
Since you have the Student and Teacher version, you should have three sets
of two keys.

Cheers

Yeah Bob - I'm pretty sure you're correct on that...

You can install any copy of Windows XP in VPC, but the copy that comes
*with* VPC can't be installed elsewhere. I "think" I recall seeing a
workaround somewhere for using VPC-XP for a standalone installation, but I

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