MS Office Mac+PC collaboration

Hi
Is anyone working on MS Office for the mac and collaborating with people who use MS Office for Windows. I know in thery that the files are compatible. But in the past, there were some glitches. I'm currently a Windows user considering swithcing to Mac. But it's very important for me to be able to seamlessly send and receive Word and other Office files and open them with all the inbedded formatting and features incuding things like Track Changes. Can anyone help me in this regard.
On a similar note, how compatible is iMacWork with MS Office.
thanks
Larry

A note about "strategy" in any setup.
I would start with a native Windows install on its own partition (BootCamp) and get it setup the way you want. You might be able to use Norton Ghost to just copy it over (but skip MBR if that is going to affect or interfere with the Mac's GPL/GUID partition tables).
Fusion or Parallels can pick up that native partition. Ghost can create a Fusion .vmdk image probably (haven't tested this for myself - check VMware and also Parallels forums).
Paragon has a utility to allow read and write from the Mac side to NTFS (otherwise it is read-only) while MacDrive7 allows access to HFS+ from Windows (32-bit only, no 64-bit support).
Fusion can let you treat most Windows applications as if they were almost a native application and be launched from the Dock's bar or an Application menu.
I have 1000s of files and I would like to be able to edit in Vista or OS X w/o worrying (they are mostly created in OpenOffice). No more worrying about synchronizing or "sneaker net" or having to use FAT (terrible idea and loses metadata it seems like).
This way I can use Quicken for Windows, OOo for Windows, but still use OS X for other chores.
The most common issue has been the "insufficient" planning for how much space to allocate to one or the other OS. My feeling is being limited to two partitions (OS X and BootCamp) has been an issue. Having both Paragon and MacDrive adds to the cost (as would Fusion etc). The Mac Pro allows me the freedom to put each system on its own disk drive, have a 'data' drive, and have backup.

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It's not a simple or fast process but it is important to follow all of the steps in order to get all the files that Office scatters around. This will not affect your data files, only MS Office and its preferences.

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I, too am wondering if it's the download site. I am not aware of any way to download Outlook Mac 2011 alone from any site including Microsoft's.
It is common for unscrupulous sites to offer desirable but pirated software for a modest price, but serve it up with a dose malware. They get you money, possible a credit card number, your e-mail, your IP address, and all you get is pain.
There was an "Outlook Express" for Mac that was freely distrubuted but I'll pretty sure that it never ran natively under OSX. The first OSX native version fo Office:Mac was Office X, and it introduced Entourage as the Mac mail client.
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1. Locate your 25-character product key found in your product package or confirmation email.
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