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I'm in the midst of the switch from PC to a MacBook Pro. I have to run some Windows-only software so I purchased Parallels. I also purchased iWorks and have been getting used to Pages. However, as a university professor who has worked for years on Word, I'm having the most difficulty switching to Pages. So now, with the fall semester on the horizon--and lots of word processing in my future--I'm considering whether to buy Office for Mac or to load my old version of Office 2003 on the Windows side of my machine.
On the one hand it doesn't make a lot of sense to load 2003 on my Mac. Why put a Windows product on an Apple? But I do own it and doing so would save $$.
On the other hand Office for Mac would allow me to operate pretty mcuh full time on the Mac side of my machine. One additional question I have is should I buy the full version or the Home/Student version? Primarily I do lots of fairly complicated word processing--I'm a historian. Looking at the specs it doesn't seem as though there are any differences between the full version and the Home/Student version, but there may be differences not apparent from the chart shown on the Apple store website. However, one drawback of the Home/Student version is that it is not upgradable--or so it seems from the specs page.
Any advice or comments would be most appreciated.
Thanks!
On the one hand it doesn't make a lot of sense to load 2003 on my Mac. Why put a Windows product on an Apple? But I do own it and doing so would save $$.
On the other hand Office for Mac would allow me to operate pretty mcuh full time on the Mac side of my machine. One additional question I have is should I buy the full version or the Home/Student version? Primarily I do lots of fairly complicated word processing--I'm a historian. Looking at the specs it doesn't seem as though there are any differences between the full version and the Home/Student version, but there may be differences not apparent from the chart shown on the Apple store website. However, one drawback of the Home/Student version is that it is not upgradable--or so it seems from the specs page.
Any advice or comments would be most appreciated.
Thanks!