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Office 2008 for Mac - Home and Student Edition

If I want to install Office for Mac, do I need to also install Bootcamp or Parralles?

All my work partners are in MS Office - I have a MACBook Pro. The MAC rep suggested I try Parallels then installing Windows XP, then Outlook - I got as far as the Parrallels and XP but (for me) it was to cumbersome. So I un-installed all of it and looked up Bootcamp.

I need to work in Outlook and Word - so If I get Office for MAC do I need to use Bootcamp or Parralles in order to make it all work?

Thanks for the help.

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    "Office for Mac" is Mac software, not Windows software, so no, you don't need Bootcamp/Parallels/Fusion.
    I use a Mac while 99% of my clients use Windows-based PCs. I share Word/Excel/Powerpoint files with them without any trouble.
    There is no Outlook in Office for Mac, the equivalent program is Entourage, but this shouldn't matter to you at work.

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  • no. as it is called in its name Office for MAC not "office for mac using parrallels" you can only use this version for macs at mac os

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