MS Office Student Ed.: What does 3 installs mean?

[lost in space]

I got in on the Office for Mac 2004 deal, and have seen mention of three install keys provided. Does this mean that up to three copies can run simultaneously on our home network? Or is it that it can only be installed 3 times, ever?

TIA

[rgG]

You can install it on three machines, one for each code. At least that is how it worked for me.

[deckeda]

It means the former.

Edit: I was late!

[GGD]

Yes, three install keys, but just one CD, you can install on three separate machines and each can have their own registration key and can run simultaneously. No limits on the number of re-installs you can do. Pretty much the same as if you bought three copies of the standard Office 2004, except you only get one CD.

[lost in space]

Thanks!

[roshi]

I don't know anything about Office 2008, but Office 2004 is a great set of programs. I work mostly inside of Word and Entourage, and they are both extremely competent.

Pages is great also, and I often create a manuscript in Word and then open it in Pages to make it look better for printing. Or I might develop a document in Pages and and then decide to switch to Word. Mostly because I know how to handle a 400 or 500 page document better in Word, and do Tables of Contents and such.

There is a great group of programmers at Microsoft with their own mini-corporation that do only Mac stuff.

Just my 2 cents.

[space-time]

you work with 400-500 page documents and have not switched to LaTeX yet???

[roshi]

All the major publishers work with Word documents. That is how you submit a book. Windows Word and Mac Word work really well together. You can just email your working manuscript in Word, without fussing with it, and let them edit it in Word for Windows and send it back.