Step 1 : Install the Mac version of Microsoft Office on the new Mac laptop
Step 2 : Move the files from one machine to the other with a USB
memory stick or external drive
Step 3 : Open the Office for windows files
Is it really that easy ? Well ' mostly '. There are some power user
differences in features between the Mac & Windows versions of Word &
Excel. One big issue in my application is that the Visual Basic add
on for the Mac version is severely crippled as compared to the
windows version. It impacts one engineering spreadsheet I rely on
for critical information. For that and a few other engineering
applications I have a Windows install on my Macs. I have NEVER
encountered it on any other .xls document. Occasionally I will get a
Word document that doesn't display a government form quite right - in
much the same way that different releases of Word for windows will
not get things right from docs created in newer versions. There is a
program made specifically for exporting email and addresses from
Outlook into Mac Mail ( I still consider Eudora a better email
program for business use but it's an eventual dead end regardless of
the computer in use ).
The big question is always what programs are crucial to the user.
Bottom line is that it's quite easy now to install and run Windows on
a current Mac for those things that will not work any other way while
using the Mac operating system for the other 95% of general computer
uses.
At 2:55 PM -0500 12/11/07, Richard P. wrote:
Windows to Apple migration?
A friend who has used Windows forever is looking to move to an Apple
laptop. Any recommendations and how difficult is it to transfer
files between the two? I know they use MS Word/Excel a lot.
Thanks in advance,
Richard P.
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