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    mac office is too expensive for a non-student... which is a nightmare

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by mginger, Jan 3, 2006.

  1. mginger

    mginger Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am shopping for a laptop. First, I wanted a Toshiba (the Qosmio) . I went to the store, took a look at the thing... and thought the screen was too bright, the laptop too heavy. So I turned to the ibook and... fell in love. Small, light, well designed, etc. I was in the process of ordering it, when I realized that Office for MAC cost 600$ (canadian). I use Word and Excel a lot. I need to transfer files to my PC, so I absolutely need a way to write compatible files.

    any solutions or should I try to fing something else (sigh) ?
     
    mginger, Jan 3, 2006
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  2. Brian

    Brian Working at 486 Speed NBR Reviewer

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    Try a secondary market, like eBay.
     
    Brian, Jan 3, 2006
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  3. mginger

    mginger Notebook Enthusiast

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    well, I might have found a solution : use OpenOffice for Mac
     
    mginger, Jan 3, 2006
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  4. LostCause

    LostCause Notebook Guru

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    Office for Windows is just as expensive I think...so don't worry about it being Mac specific, you're screwed with whatever you use. :)
     
    LostCause, Jan 3, 2006
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    the student and teacher edition is a little cheaper. but the cheapest route is the openoffice route that you noticed. There is also appleworks on it which would be comparable to ms works, it doesn't seem to really be able to open .doc files, but it does seem to be able to create .doc files.
     
    RadcomTxx, Jan 3, 2006
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    Free Appleworks which comes on Ibook reads and writes word and excell files very well. Shouldn't be a problem
     
    ddown, Jan 4, 2006
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    mginger Notebook Enthusiast

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    yes, but is it compatible with MS Word ? I want to import my Word files on my ibook, work on them, and retransfer them on my PC
     
    mginger, Jan 4, 2006
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    apparently it should, but i haven't really tried it b/c i have the ms office suite for my ibook.
     
    RadcomTxx, Jan 4, 2006
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    ecrdude Notebook Guru

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    Go grab Open Office. I have it on several PC's at home and plan on loading it on my Powerbook. I have had no problems opening/creating/saving files in Word and Excel format.
     
    ecrdude, Jan 5, 2006
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  10. Susan

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    Apple is offering Office with a 50% mail in rebate when purchased with a Mac thru Jan 31.

    susan
     
    Susan, Jan 5, 2006
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  11. LostCause

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    Just open up a word .doc with Appleworks. Isn't it like Windows, where you can choose which program to open up a file with?

    I think the whole purpose of Appleworks is to allow OSX users to open and edit Microsoft Office Word files.
     
    LostCause, Jan 5, 2006
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  12. xAMDvsIntelx

    xAMDvsIntelx Notebook Deity

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    Yes - it does allow the written portion of any .doc documets to be opened. However, it does not allow the opening of pictures of clip-art.
     
    xAMDvsIntelx, Jan 5, 2006
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