Installing Office across multiple users on the same machine

I have two user accounts on a MacBook Pro and need to install Office 2011 on both user accounts.
The software is suggesting I download it twice, once for each user, which seems a waste of storage space. Is there a way to give both users access to the software?

You don't need to install it twice

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Ian,
Thanks for the suggestion. It certanly better than nothing, but in my case there is no partition with permissions off and there are other users to whom I wouldn't want to give full rights to the library. As an alternative I thought of simply creating a special user and do all editing from it.
At any rate, it would have been useful if Aperture had something like that built in - like a preferences option, where one could specify a MacOS group name, and Aperture would do all its file/folder create operations within a given library with setgid()/setegid() of that group and corresponding umask() to give rw permissions to that group. Not too hard to do, either.

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Move the \Music\iTunes\ folder to a Shared directory.
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Select *Choose library* and select the _iTunes library.itl_ file in the \iTunes\ folder in the Shared directory.
Quit iTunes then let yoru wife log in and hold Shift and launch iTunes.
Select *Choose library* and select the _iTunes library.itl_ file in the \iTunes\ folder in the Shared directory.

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tonyeesi
Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
However that application needs to be accessed via multiple users on the same machine.
If the app is in the HD/Applications folder, all users can access it and use it. Then it doesn't matter of the other users are logged on or off. It's not a different iteration, there is no duplication.
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Sharing one iTunes library across multiple accounts on the same Mac

Hello, I've poked around at some of the posts dealing with sharing one iTunes music library across multiple accounts on the same Mac but it seems like this can only be done if the libary is moved to a shared folder. I realize this can be done but I was trying to share it the way it is described in a post on Apple support (See link below.). That post seemed to imply that you don't have to move the library from its original location (owned by account A, e.g.), rather just make a couple preference changes in the accounts, use fast user switching and voila. That doesn't seem to work. So my question is this: Is the only way to share one iTunes music library across multiple accounts on the same Mac to move it to a shared folder? I'm running 10.4.8 on an Intel iMac. Thanks in advance!
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93195

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Find my Friends : Support for multiple users under the same Apple ID?

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If I have 2 users on the same machine, and I log in with one user, open iTunes, then swich user and bring up iTunes. Will the second user see the shared shongs from the first user?
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4. Set the location for my music library to the "Public" folder (created an iTunes folder in there and pointed to it).
5. Selected "Add to Library" and selected the top level folder where my songs are (an mp3 folder on my firewire drive)
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Can i share music and photos between two users on the same machine?

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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
If you Import the files from one User to another then you will use double the disk space on your HD as you will have multiple copies of everything. Why not simply share the files between accounts?
For iPhoto 09 (version 8.0.2) and later:
What you mean by 'share'.
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Quit iPhoto in both accounts. Move the Library to the Users / Shared Folder
(You can also use an external HD set to ignore permissions, a Disk Image or even partition your Hard Disk.)
In each account in turn: Double click on the Library to open it. (You may be asked to repair the Library Permissions.) From that point on, this will be the default library location. Both accounts will have full access to the library, in fact, both accounts will 'own' it.
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Regards
TD

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