Mac / PC's on the same network

So, I'm contemplating adding a mac to my network of PC's w/ Windows XP. However, I am concerned about still being able to access all of my shared documents on the network. Pictures and music seem pretty straight forward, but what happens with office documents? Can I open or modify them using a mac? If I do, will it cause problems opening them back on the PC? If there is a chance of this causing problems, I'm going to stay away from mixing the herd, but am anxious to find out more.
Thanks!

jtrevill:
I am concerned about still being able to access all of my shared documents on the network. Pictures and music seem pretty straight forward, but what happens with office documents? Can I open or modify them using a mac?
I will assume that the macs will be running OSx as the Operating System. You will need to have MS Office for Mac installed on your Macs to be able to open the Office documents created on your PCs. You can also modify them and share them with the PCs.
If I do, will it cause problems opening them back on the PC?
Not as long as the documents are saved under the right version. For example, your macs may have Office 2008 and your PC may Office XP. In this example both PCs and Macs would save their files to the earliest version of the two.
If there is a chance of this causing problems, I'm going to stay away from mixing the herd, but am anxious to find out more.
Yes there are issues if the users are quite advanced in your network. Even though Office products for Mac and for Windows are made by the same company, Microsoft, there are times when documents may not be exactly formatted when transferred from one platform to another especially in Word and Powerpoint. There are also functionality issues especially in Excel. The Excel version for Mac (2008 version) does not handle Macros. MS Access is not available for the Mac Office version. In short, there is not a 100% compatibility between MS Office for Mac and Office for Windows.
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