Microsoft Office for the Mac is a suite of tools that can boost productivity in your small business. The Office suite includes a word processor, Word; a spreadsheet application, Excel; presentation software, PowerPoint; and email software, Outlook. All of these applications are designed to work well together, so you can share data between them or link files for automatic updating. The Mac version of Office also plays nicely with the Windows version and you can exchange files with Windows Microsoft Office users without resorting to file conversion. Tips • Microsoft sells two versions for Office for Mac. The less-expensive 'Home & Student' version does not include the email program Outlook. • If you want to run the Windows version of Microsoft Office on your Mac, possibly because it offers additional business applications such as a database tool and desktop publishing software, consider the Bootcamp application that comes with Mac OS X.

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This software allows you to partition your hard drive, install the Windows operating system and add Windows-based software to your Macintosh hard drive.

I bought my first Mac almost 11 months ago and now comes the moment of truth. I need to go on the road and take my MacBook Pro with me, but also need to take several versions of Excel for Windows (2010, 2007, 2003) to validate and tweak an Excel reporting package. Note: Cross posted at The Boot Camp Assistant allows me to partition hard drive space on my MacBook Pro and install Windows. So when I got the following message to create a partition for Windows on my Mac it just felt WRONG. But the scary part was right before I began the Windows installation, with the realization of what I was about to do to my MacBook Pro.

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Thankfully the installation went off without a hitch, yet was slower than pouring molasses in winter. Especially when three updates for Windows 7 had to happen in succession with a restart between each. A slight problem was not being able to eject the Windows 7 disk because the Mac-specific drivers hadn’t been loaded yet so I shut down Windows 7, and booted up with Mac OS X to get the disk out. After shutting down and restarting Windows 7, I loaded the Mac OS X installation disk and the Boot Camp Assistant then loaded all the drivers for my MacBook Pro. All of this was done with the help of two references. I used a Gizmodo article as an overiew to the process,, and during the disk partitioning and Windows installation I used Apple’s.

You can set the default operating system for your computer using Startup Disk preferences in Mac OS X, or the Boot Camp control panel in Windows. You can also select which operating system to use during startup by holding down the Option key. I immediately downloaded Firefox to replace Internet Explorer as my browser of choice. Of course then I needed to load a couple of browser extensions, and, to get my passwords and bookmarks. The Windows 7 disk partition must be in NTFS format so you can’t save files to the Windows part of the disk from Mac OS X.