Is 2gb of ram enough for office 2011

I just received a MacBook air with 2gb of ram. Is this enough to run Microsoft 2011? I'm wondering if I should upgrade to 4gb

Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac works great. I have it running on my OSX partition with no problems. I normally run several large PDF's, documents and presentations at the same time. I haven't tried crunching my large spreadsheets yet. I am sure I will try that in the next couple weeks.
One other thing, Office 2011 installs the Microsoft Document connection which will let you save your docs directly to the skydrive, which is very nice. It's a good way to save the space on the laptop and store the docs so you can access anywhere, anytime on any device.

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