Windows with Mac-basic questions

I had been using a my Mac for work; then switched to my notebook PC (Dell, D630) . That becuase I had to use outlook and ACT and a few other programs that are work related.
I would like to update my MacBook to Leopard, and use boot-camp to run Windows when I am on the road etc,or in office mainly to get access to read & do emails and ACT databases while off line.
Can someone assist with following Questions:
1. What do I need to do to update my Macbook. What is recommended memory to support this?
2. After Leopard upgrade, what do I need to do next?
3. If I instal windows 2000, do I have to install windows office too? ie when I am running windows, I need windows office, Outlook etc, etc. ? Is there any degradation of speed or features?
4. If I am in Windows and, for example, I simply download from a received e-mail, an attached MS Word file to store in a Document folder, do I have two folders (one when with Mac OS; the other with Windows? . If I save a doc when the Windows environment, and then later reopen to Mac envioronment , can I still easily get at that Word doc in that common folder? And Vice versa, if I am working, say in Mac Word and I save a file to 'Folder A', if I then later switch & re-open to Windows environment on my Mac at work (example) can I see & get to 'Folder A '.
Thanks,

IBoughtaMac wrote:
1. If I load MS Exchange on Mac and run on my MacBook when in the Window XP environment, can I get to MS Exchange as I normally do on notebook PC, does it function in this situation ? Any experience with that?
I presume you mean install Outlook.
Generally Exchange has to be installed on a Windows Server.
When running Windows XP on a Mac in Boot Camp, it is the same (well a little faster) as a Windows PC.
Virtually everything you can do on a Windows PC you will be able to do on a Mac running Windows.
Outlook will install, run and can be configured to work with an Exchange server with no problems.
2. Ditto , ACT. Can I use ACT if I load the application? Any experience with that?
No idea what ACT is.
But if it runs on Windows then it can run on a Mac running Windows.
3. Can I use MS Explorer when under the Windows environment (on the Mac). Limitations?
Yes, no limitations.
If it runs on Windows then it can run on a Mac running Windows.
4. Assume I am in Windows on Mac via Boot Camp. Assume I have MS word etc for Windows . Lets say I get an e-mail with an attached word file or whatever doc. If I then save it to say, ' My office work ,Folder A'. Close the Window environment, and Open Mac , can I get to same folder & open same doc?
Yes, if the Windows partition is FAT32, you will be able to make and save changes.
If the partition is NTFS then you will only be able to read the Word file.
Note when running Windows you can not read the Mac partition unless you have third party tools.
I did get a reply about this item (no. 5) but it had buzz words such as NTFS and FAT VOL, I dont understand that,sorry,
A hard drive (the disk) in order to work with an operating system needs to be formatted.
Windows can use two formats, one called FAT and one called NTFS.
Generally NTFS is preferred when running Windows, but FAT is more compatible with OS X for reading and writing files.
iFelix

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I tried to install a windows on my mac book pro but i couldn't because of i don't know different problems which finally in this forum they told me u can not because of my hard disk partitions ( Link to that post) , now i am using vmware but its really slow for windows 8.1 and visual studio .
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majid khalili wrote:
I tried to install a windows on my mac book pro but i couldn't because of i don't know different problems which finally in this forum they told me u can not because of my hard disk partitions ( Link to that post) , now i am using vmware but its really slow for windows 8.1 and visual studio .
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