Hello folks, This is my first post - I have searched the forum for this question and not discovered an answer so huge apologies if I've missed the original post. I have MS Office 2011 for Mac installed on my MBP (running Mavericks). I also have an ageing ThinkPad running Windows XP with MS Office 2003 installed. In my spare time, I develop Excel VBA applications for charities etc and these are developed and run on the ThinkPad. Obviously, these solutions will not run successfully on the Mac as MS Office for Mac 2011 does not support ActiveX, Windows Navigator calls etc. I would dearly love to retire the ThinkPad and run a Windows version of MS Office on a Windows 7 or 8 platform on the Mac using Parallels. The 64,000 dollar question is this: is it possible to have both Mac and Windows versions of MS Office on the MPB ? Are there any likely conflicts, gotchas etc that would prevent me from achieving my ambition? Not knowing how Parallels stores applications installed via the Windows VM, I'm finding it hard to visualise how the two versions of MS Office would co-exist. As I use Outlook 2011 (Mac) as my email client (it is better the iMail), I'm uncomfortable with uninstalling MS Office 2011 to 'make way' for the Windows version, and ideally would like to avoid this as an option. Any advice would be hugely appreciated. Many thanks
The Virtual Machines have different environments, Office for Mac does not interfere with Office for Windows, the VM has it's own virtual disk with Windows and applications installed, it's kind of like a separate partition.
Hi Specimen, Thanks for your explanation. I'll give it a go and let you know how I get on. Thanks again
Hi Speci! I would be apreciated to here from you if your Excel VBA aplications work on Parallels Desktop. Please answer me.
