Installation
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One will be required to purchase Office 2010 for the PC or Office 2011 from the Mac. The fee is $19.95. One benefit is that you may use that purchase to install on up to 5 computers.
Those wishing to install Office 2010 for the PC / Office 2011 for the Mac should be directed to this page of the Knox website: http://www.knox.edu/offices-and-services/information-technology-services/computing-at-knox/network-applications.html. The short blurb is towards the bottom of the page.
You may also directly to the Varsity Buys website: http://www.varsitybuys.com/index.php?store=students&vendor=183&vschool=142
File Types
Office 2007 introduced new file types for projects produced by the software called Office Open XML. They included the docx (for Microsoft Word), xlsx (Microsoft Excel), and pptx (For Microsoft Power-Point). These new files types use a ZIP container to slightly compress the file, while also allowing for some of the newer formatting options and displays introduced in Office 2007.
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