Office 2007 on a mac?

[Smith]

I've got a copy of Office 2007 and my buddy has a mac, and he wants to know if it will work on it.

Does anyone know if it will work? If not, what do I need?

[4play]

Does anyone know if it will work?
no it wont


If not, what do I need?

windows

[Smith]

Alright thanks, Im downloading office 2004 for mac right now..its a .dmg file..how do I burn that?

[limpingjaret]

are you downloading it on a PC or a mac? Alternatively, if your friend has a copy of windows, he can use Paralells or BootCamp to run windows on his mac.

[blEnder]

Alright thanks, Im downloading office 2004 for mac right now..its a .dmg file..how do I burn that?

On a Mac, the .dmg file should just be mountable as a HD or you should be able to just drag it to a blank CD/DVD to burn it.

On a PC it might be best to use DMG2ISO (search for it), so you'll end up with an ISO file and then burn the iso file to a CD/DVD

Or as the above poster mentioned, if you really want Office 2007 use bootcamp or Parallels (assuming you have an intel mac). Both work pretty well.

[Smith]

Well this isnt for me, its for a buddy. Once its burned as an ISO it will work on a mac right?

e/ did i mention im on a pc? Does dmg2iso have a windows version?

[blEnder]

Yes dmg2iso can be had as a win32 binary.

1. Download the win32 binary from here: http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/

2. Probably save it to your root directory - c:/

3. Go to a command prompt and 'level down' to the root directory (or where ever you saved dmg2iso)

4. at the cmd prompt type: dmg2iso.exe [filename.dmg] [filename.iso] where [filename.dmg] is the exact name of the file you have and then [filename.iso] to whatever file you want to call it. Note: do not type the '[ ]' in the filenames. Also note that your .dmg file needs to be in the same directory as dmg2iso.exe

As for burning the iso that will work on a mac. It should be fine as long as the DMG file was fine.

[Smith]

I dont understand what you mean by "go to a command prompt" I tried to open up the file and it wont.

e/ nvm, now it says it wont open it up "cant open input file"

Suggestions?

I typed "dmg2iso.exe [mso.dmg] [mso2.iso]" <enter>

[limpingjaret]

there is no []

so it should be "dmg2iso.exe mso.dmg mso2.iso"
without the ""

[blEnder]

I dont understand what you mean by "go to a command prompt" I tried to open up the file and it wont.

e/ nvm, now it says it wont open it up "cant open input file"

Suggestions?

I typed "dmg2iso.exe [mso.dmg] [mso2.iso]" <enter>

As mentioned, as I put in the instruction post, don't use the brackets.

Did you get it to work now?

[Smith]

Property list error?

[blEnder]

Well if you are sure that the .dmg file itself is not corrupt, these are the only other tips I can give you about this.

- Make sure the dmg2iso.exe is in the same exact folder/directory as the actual .dmg file.
- Make sure the .dmg file does not contain any special characters (spaces, ?, etc). If they do rename the .dmg file.

This has worked for others. Download the dmg2iso.pl file from http://vu1tur.eu.org/tools/ - listed as perl script.

(alternative is to rename dmg2iso.exe to dmg2iso.pl)

After download dmg2iso.pl file use the same instructions as before.

Very important to keep dmg2iso (either .exe or .pl) in the same folder/directory as the actual .dmg file.

Try the .pl version and see if that works. If not you may have to do a little more work.

Taken from another place:


dmg2iso is a very strange piece of software with instructions
that normal people can't understand. This became a challenge to
me, because I have a dmg file that I really want to extract.
I started trying a software called MacDrive 6 which was supposed
to do the trick. It is more advanced than dmg2iso, but absolutely
impossible to understand. Don't try it, don't buy it.

I have made a lot of experiments. Now eventually I have found
a solution to the puzzle:

Move dmg2iso.exe to c:\ if it is not already there.
Rename the program to dmg2iso.pl (strange, but it is necessary!)

Move the dmg file that you want to convert to c:\
If the name contains blanks or any strange characters
that DOS may not accept, then rename it. Give the file
a simple name like MYFILE.dmg to be on the safe side.

Open Windows help function. Try to find out how to open a DOS
window. (I am running W2000, swedish version, so I can't give
you any exact guidance here).

In the DOS window type:
dmg2iso.pl MYFILE.dmg MYFILE.iso
(do not use any < or >)

enter - wait...

... and you will have an iso image that you can expand
with PowerIso or any other available software that can
expand an iso file. Good luck!

[blEnder]

An update. The new poweriso lets you convert .dmg to .iso, or you can just burn the .dmg.

PowerIso 3.8. You can look around and find it.