Installing Office for Mac...

Those of you who read my blog regularly know that I bought a MacBook Pro a couple of month ago. And so far everything has been fine and I really enjoy the stability and ease of use. I had purchased the product key for Office for Mac as well. But I never really got around to installing it. For most parts I really didn't need it. And those few documents I had to write I can easily do with the Apps that come preinstalled or just do it through Google Docs. But with my class in Economic Calculus starting and the advanced Excel class just around the cornier I had no option of installing Office. So I followed the install instructions and it was pretty much straight forward. Downloading the DMG was done in no time at all. And having a 100 MBit internet speed at your disposal really helps. While we are on that subject I'm thinking of upgrading my internet to 150 MBit. Would love to get 250 MBit but that's a little to expensive for my taste. In case I should upgrade my internet speed I'm thinking of ditching cable. But I haven't worked that all out yet.
Once the download was complete I starte the installation procedure and like all the Mac Apps I've installed it was straight forward with no hiccups. Of course being a curious guy I had to check it out right away. The package contains Word, Power Point and Excel. Why it does install the Outlook as well although you can't really use it isn't quite clear to me. Unless it's a marketing gimmick to get people to upgrade. The first thing I did is checking out Excel, since I will be working with that a lot in the next few month. The one thing that always strikes me as odd is that fact that the same version of Excel in for Windows and the one for Mac doesn't really look the same. You would thick that programmers would find a way to make the layout of the program look alike. Would make it much easier for people who have to switch between Mac and Windows. And yes this is somewhat annoying. But on the bright side doing economic calculus on the Windows version of Excel and having to do it at home on the Mac version is a good practice so that you're familiar with both versions.
I know I could install Parallel Desk on just run the Windows version of it on Mac machine. But it hasn't come to that yet. I might have to do that some day in the future when getting into the really advanced Excel stuff.