Office 2004 standard or professional?
I am wondering if I should get Office standard or professional. The cost is not so much an issue, since I can have a student deal with my school (for the MS Student Select Office 2004, standard or pro).
I know the basic difference is that the professional version has Virtual PC, but I'm not sure I 1) understand what it does 2) if it's worth the additional memory space needed to install it.
Thank you for helping me!
The only difference between Standard and Professional is VirtualPC.
What it does (VirtualPC):
Allows you to run a copy of Windows (in a window) on your Mac. And it will facilitate sharing files between your Mac and this copy of Windows. It's useful if there is some Windows only program that you absolutely need (or want) to run on your Mac.
Is VirtualPC worth it: That depends. If you need Virtual PC to get work done than yes, it's worth it. If you don't NEED it, but just want to run a Win only game or app, then sure, again, it's worth it.
The fact that you are asking what VirtualPC is though, pretty much suggests you don't need it. Not to offend, but if you needed the program you would already know what VirtualPC does.
Hope that helps.
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Hi Martha - Amazon offers office 2004 on their website.
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Office-2004-Standard-VERSION/dp/B0001WN0M2
That will be your best bet if you want to have office 2004 on your computer. Also, there are some different versions want to come to office. The link above gives you the standard version, but there's also the professional version. Now it sounds like that you do not want to upgrade to the latest office because you're most likely comfortable with how 2004 works. So in that case I would not spend the extra money and pay for the professional version unless you really need it. I see on the website there that if you buy a used copy it will only cost you around $10.
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We purchased 1 Open License for this user for Office 2013 Pro.
On a Testserver I've installed Office 2013 Standard with all features.
After that I've installed Excel 2013 Professional.
Now, whenever someone opens "Excel 2013" on Testserver from apps it opens Excel 2013 Professional, not standard.
Apparently Excel has totally forgotten about the Standard version.
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Is there a way to restrict Excel professional to this one user ? and let other users still use Excel Standard ?
I'd like to know this before I deploy Excel Professional in our RDS pool.
If no one can answer this : Excel Professional it will be for everyone and this thread will serve as my answer the day MS comes complaining about missing Office Professional licenses.Hi Chloe,
Thanks for the suggestion.
I went ahead and installed Excel 2013 Pro on our RDS pool, on top of the existing Office 2013 Standard.
I've skipped all the other Pro features during install (access, etc.).
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hi tuggerose
i think it is bad new for you. if it's any consilation i went through the same thing when i loaded mountain lion when it first came out. i think the problem is that mountain lion is a pure 64bit operating system and the software you have is 32bit. earlier os's were able to emulate 32bit but the new system does not. the answer is new software. i did it and it cost me a load of money and much angst so your not alone. -
Office 2010 In-place upgrade from Standard to Professional Plus
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Thank you, it does help. My OCT is set to "Default Setup behavior; earlier versions of installed programs are removed". This works fine, all programs run successfully etc, the upgrade runs without any problem.
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Right now we're running Office 2010 Pro Plus for all users which is locally installed.
Management asked me to downgrade to Office 2010 Standard to save on license costs. However, some people still need Microsoft Access 2010 so they will still require the Pro Plus edition.
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I appriciate your help. Thanks in advance.
Rgds,
Martijn.From my perspective, the only valid solution from a licensing perspective would be to create server silos.
As Aaron pointed out, Office legally is licensed at the endpoint device (like a Linux ThinClient, iPad, PC whatever). According to the license agreements you have to make sure that the user may only connect to RDS servers that have the same version of Office
installed as it is assigned to the endpoint device.
In return, you'd have to make sure that nobody uses a 'Standard' enpoint to connect to an RDS Server where Pro (or: Access separately) is available.
There seem to be some exceptions in conjunction with 3rd party lock-down software. Appsense claims that you are allowed to use such a scenario, when you use their Application Manager product to ensure that only licensed application launches are permitted
(The say they have a validation by MS).
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Technically, your aim wouldn't be easy to achieve, too: To use virtualized Office 2007+ applications, the OfficeDeploymentKit has to be installed locally on the RDS server, and it has to get a list of to-license products. Effectively it manipulates that
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usage to the KMS/MAK server.
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This message occurs whenever your installed fonts change. I work for a publisher so was getting it all the time as I turned fonts on and off for different projects.
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4. Newly added fonts should still appear when you next start an Office application.
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Installing Office 2004 after upgrade to Tiger
I am upgrading to Tiger from Panther and do not want to lose Office for Mac. I have the 2004 version which I have upgraded in Panther up to 11.3.8. I will have to install the standard Office 2004 for Mac from the CD. Can Tiger accept this early version so that I can upgrade by downloading improved versions?
Hi, and a warm welcome to the forums!
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The second issue is that even after uninstalling Office 2010 Standard from the Control panel the Office shows activation of both ( Going to --File ---Help)
How can I edit this config.xml to remove office 2010 Standard first and then upgrade to Office 2010 Pro Plus?
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</Configuration>Hi,
Here is not a Config.xml solution, but we can use it as a workaround, basically automate the uninstallation of Office 2010, reboot the computer and then deploy Office 2010. You may find the following article useful if you need more info on that.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/archive/2011/04/06/how-to-perform-an-uninstall-upgrade-to-office-2010.aspx
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Does Microsoft office 2004 work with lion?
Does Microsoft Office 2004 work with the new Lion OS?
Ptit-Loup wrote:
Angry at Microsoft, and now angry at Apple...
Microsoft killed macros compatibility when upgrading from Excel 2004.
Apple kills OS compatibility with Office 2004 when upgrading to Lion.
I did not upgrade from Excel 2004, since I spent a lot of time and energy to develop a large number of functions using Excel macros.
I will not upgrade from Snow Leopard.
What else ?
I had the intention to change my 4-year-old 17" Macbook pro, not compatible with Lion, to a newer one. I had... There is no further reason to do that.
Apple, now loosing old supporters and customers ? Or am I getting too old ?
A 4 year old Macbook Pro should run Lion. Unless its a CoreDue and not a Core2Duo. Remember that PPC computers can not even run Snow Leopard. This was when Apple announced that support for PPC programs would be phased out. Office 2004 is almost 8 years old now. Twice as old as your computer you say needs to be replaced. I can't believe people rush in to install a new system without doing a little bit of research, and the dropping of Rosetta to run old PPC programs was well advertised if you read up on Lion, as was the introduction of Mission Control and Versions. I even read up about them, and I'm not a professional like some who come here. May pay to remember to research in future releases.
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This message occurs whenever your installed fonts change. I work for a publisher so was getting it all the time as I turned fonts on and off for different projects.
In Office 2004, do this:
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2. Rename or move FontCacheTool. (Requires administrator access)
In Office 2011, do this:
1. Go to *~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011/*
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Notes:
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