Old habits definitely do die hard, which is probably why I have dutifully pulled out the Microsoft Office for Mac (OfM) install disk every time I've reformatted or upgraded one of the many Macs I've set up and kept running over the years. When recently setting up a new iMac with Mavericks and I couldn't locate that OfM install disk, however, an act of desperation turned into a new modus operandi after I realised that our open-source allies have made the world's most widely used office suite nearly irrelevant. Microsoft Office may be rusted onto the corporate office worker's psyche, but many Mac users will find OpenOffice just as capable. CC BY-SA 3.0 Herzi Pinki.
Today I invested in a iMac. I also brought with that the version of office for Mac. 'Office: mac 2011'. The iMac I brought does not have a disk drive, I am meant to be isntalling this product with a 'Product Key' via internet. I've gone to the Office website and all but I am still confused. I would like to install this. Sep 25, 2012 - 3 min - Uploaded by InkslingerIndustriesFrom the folks at Inkslinger Industries Blog at Newsletter at http. Solved: I need to install my hp officejet 4500 without a disk - 1114233. Nov 22, 2013. Rumour has it that the next version of Office for Mac will bow early next year – prompting many to upgrade, no doubt, even as the memory of now-unsupported Office 2008 fades. But if you can't wait that long – or, like me, you find yourself without an OfM install disk – it's time to give OpenOffice another look.
There has been a lot of movement in the office-suite market of late, what with Apple releasing Pages, Keynote and Numbers for free; Google Docs popular but; and Microsoft's Office 365 even as the company puts to varying effect. While cloud-based alternatives are getting better all the time, I'm a traditionalist who has used local productivity applications since the days of Wordstar.
So, as you can imagine, when I set up a new computer I like to have a writing tool that works whether I'm online or not. Previous versions of iWork had promise as an alternative, but I have a long-running feud with Apple over iWork for one simple reason: Apple refuses to give it the ability to simply load and save files in Word's.DOC format. That's right: the only way to handle documents in Pages is by saving your working documents as.pages files – which are, inexplicably, often 10 or more times larger than their Word.DOC equivalent – and then exporting.DOC versions as and when you need them. If you work with a lot of documents, the double-handling rapidly grates on you. I was hoping to standardise on Pages after hearing about Apple's move to make it free, but Apple is still insisting that we use its own file format to save documents. Little wonder the business community has been increasingly: in the real world – the business world outside Apple's closed-garden ecosystem –absolutely nobody uses the.pages format.
How To Install Microsoft Office 2011 On Mac Without Cd Drive
Apple's determination to force it down our throats has made its latest iWork iteration less of an Office killer and something more resembling TextEdit on steroids. At any rate, with Pages out of the question and Office nowhere to be found, I took a chance and revisited the open-source equivalent, OpenOffice, to see if it might allow me to maintain my workflow based on the frequent loading, editing and saving of.DOC files. OpenOffice has been around for some time, but despite heroic efforts by its developers it has struggled to gain a massive following mainly because Microsoft Office is so broadly available. Business users know Office and have it available to them as a matter of course, while home users probably get it through student bundles or the like.
OpenOffice 4.0 works like Word but looks like Pages. Screenshot: David Braue Mac users, however, have a different decision set. Despite its name, Office for Mac is a rather different productivity suite than Office for Windows – with a different interface and a different feature set. These differences are often significant: it was only with the latest version, for example, that the Mac version of Office was given Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) scripting capabilities after years of conspicuous absence. Rumour has it that the next version of Office for Mac will bow early next year – prompting many to upgrade, no doubt, even as the memory of fades. But if you can't wait that long – or, like me, you find yourself without an OfM install disk – it's time to give OpenOffice another look.