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?