MS Office for Mac question.

When upgrading from 2008 Home and Student edition to 2011 Home and Student edition, does one lose Entourage 2008 in the process?

 

It doesnt erase/uninstall 2008 so it should not get rid of it.

I had 2008 installed, and installed 2011 recently, and have both folders still in my applications folder.

 

Yup, it will let you run both in parallel - so you can move your data across to Outlook, and then remove 2008 completely when you are happy that 2011 has taken over completely.

 

Outlook????

2011 Home and Student edition does not include Outlook, nor Entourage or any replacement. That's why I asked.

 

Ah never knew the differences in the lineups. But either way you can keep entourage.

 

Sorry should have read better!
You could always use something like AppDelete to remove the applications you do not want - so word, excel, etc. Then install office 2011.
This way you get the office 2011 apps while keeping entourage.

 

Office 2008 comes with an uninstall utility of its own. Office places some large files in a couple of places. The Remove Office utility will take care of removing those.

 

That's too bad the cheaper version doesn't include Outlook...hopefully an exchange compatible Outlook!

It's about time they brought Outlook back...I remember when it was a free release for Mac OS.

 

It works fine with Exchange! Really, it has to; Office with Exchange integration is part of MS' bread and butter. But I set it up with my work email in about thirty seconds.

 

Nice! Thanks for the info!

 

Even though I uninstalled Office:mac 2008 -using MS utility- and installed Office:mac 2011, I may need to install just the Word component of the 2008, since Endnote doesn't work with 2011 yet

I guess it should be OK to have full 2011 -including Word- alongside the Word from 2008, right? They seem to be "independent".

 

Yeah, sounds like they're fine, although I wonder if you'd want to install the older one THEN install the newer one? And of course patch both versions up.

 

They install as separate apps in separate folders, so either way you can run both in parallel.

 

MS Office for Mac 2011 Academic includes Outlook. It's a less publicized third version. It is NOT the Student/Teacher retail version but one you'd get through Microsoft or various academic channels.

 

I should ask-does the Mac version of Office have activation? (Any versions of it?) If not I might buy a copy of Office 2011.

 

I believe so.

Check: http://tinyurl.com/2ug2l95

Why specifically is that a problem? Have you had actual problems with Microsoft activation in the last couple years?

 

Dang, apparently it does, so I won't be buying it. (Err...actually I CAN'T buy it since they won't sell it, but you know what I mean.)

 

See my installation video here:

YouTube - Microsoft Office 2011 for MAC - Installation & Overview

 

Oh wow, great video ifti! Thanks!

 

If they ever make a special version of MS Office that can be sold in the Mac App Store, you shouldn't have to worry about activation, cuz they wont be allowed to have anything like that from what I read in the store requirements.

 

again, I'm curious why the big deal about activation?

I don't much care for it, and really don't much like or trust Microsoft, but I also have to be honest and say I've not had any issues with activation of MS products in years. What are all the problems happening that are causing the avoidance of products on the mac platform requiring activation?

 

activation can be a major pain... Windows mainly... if you've ever had problems and had to reinstall a few times and try to get it activated again. Try using MSes phone activation for Windows 7... it takes literally like 20 minutes to activate it again if you get it right, and thats their automated system...

but that doesn't matter, I'm just saying the rules of the Mac App Store doesn't allow any type of activation or copy protection of license key numbers or anything like that... if you want to sell it in the Mac App Store, it has to only use the Mac App Store built in copy protection.... which means licensed and usable under the Apple ID that bought it on an authorized machine.

 

Interesting, thanks for sharing your experience. I guess it has to do with the specific history one has had. I once had to call the phone # when I was moving an XP Pro installation to a different motherboard/HDD combination. Took a few minutes, true, but that was one occasion something like four years ago. No further issues or needs to call MS with Vista or Win7 or MS Office 07 or other products. Thus my curiosity, it's be nice if it wasn't required, but I've just not had it be a hassle.

I was wondering if there was some major issue with it on OSX given that Wolfpup above said he (she?) wouldn't be buying OfficeMac11 after finding out it has activation. I figured it must be some big problem if someone is completely avoiding a software package just because of activation?

 

It's not specific to OS X, just activation in general. I won't be getting Office 2010 either.