Mac expert needed

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  1. F51

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    Any of you a bit of an expert with mac's? i need to get microsoft office on to my mac to do my uni work, i only need word, excel, power point and publisher. if there is a way to get it free that would be best
     
    #1 F51, Dec 5, 2014
  2. NikH

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    Why not just use pages and export the document as a word document... Same for the rest of them?
    ?
     
    #2 NikH, Dec 5, 2014
  3. Ollie

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    you could do the above or you could run a duplicate desktop on your machine, i cant remember exactly what the mac term is for it though, but its not too complicated to set up, then you can run windows.
     
    #3 Ollie, Dec 5, 2014
  4. jamespayne5

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    Why the hell would you want to run dual operating systems just for MS Office? There is a mac version, and there has been for years.

    The free but slightly naughty version:

    1) Access piratebay.se through a proxy server website and set your location to any country that allows you to access the site, i.e. Australia etc (you won't be able to access it in the UK afaik)

    2) Download MS Office for mac (read the comments for the torrents to find one that people have had no issues with).

    Simples
     
    #4 jamespayne5, Dec 6, 2014
  5. dave325i

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    If libre office do a mac version get that. File type is the same as office so can be opened by both and it's open source
     
    #5 dave325i, Dec 6, 2014
  6. James998

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    If I had a macbook pro, and wanted microsoft office, I could download the free trial and then go searching for a serial code, for example searching youtube and clicking a video which has a thousand different serial codes in the description of the video and trying a few of them until it worked.

    Hypothetical situation.
     
    #6 James998, Dec 7, 2014
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    Cant you use office online? Some connection to office 365...?

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    Also uni/schools usually have special codes/licences for this reason and you can get it for free/cheap off them. I'd ask the IT guys at the uni.
     
    #7 CBRParr, Dec 7, 2014
  8. F51

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    where would i get the free trial? this seems like the easiest idea
     
    #8 F51, Dec 13, 2014
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    You should be able to get the free trial of office from the Microsoft website, and like said juat try and find a serial code somewhere on the interwebs
     
    #9 Captain, Dec 13, 2014
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  11. F51

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    I did that but it charged me £6.99:cry:
    If i find a code for it now i wont have to keep paying for it monthly then?
     
    #11 F51, Dec 14, 2014
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    A free trial for £6.99? Confuzzled!
     
    #12 James998, Dec 14, 2014
  13. F51

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    it said free trial but you have to put card details in so i figured it was for future per month payments to use it, i put the details in thinking the first month was free but it charged me £6.99 bit annoying
     
    #13 F51, Dec 14, 2014
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    You can do a lot on Google drive, e.g. word, excel etc
     
    #14 AStar10, Jan 6, 2015
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