About Microsoft Office for Windows
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Microsoft Office (vendor: Microsoft) is a suite of office productivity applications.

Information on this page is to help users determine what product best fits their document editing and other office productivity needs.

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Microsoft Office 2010 is a suite of applications that includes: Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and Word. Brown distributes only the 32-bit version of Office 2010.
  • The installed package requires 2.4 GB of hard disk space.
  • You may choose to install one or all of these applications.
  • Microsoft Office 2010 is NOT supported by CIS and is incompatible with EndNote X3.
  • Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint all have backward compatible file formats. These applications permit the user to launch, edit and save Microsoft Office 2007 files.
Microsoft Office 2007 is a suite of applications that includes: Access, Excel, InfoPath, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher and Word.
  • The installed package requires 1.7 GB of hard disk space.
  • You may choose to install one or all of these applications.
  • Office 2007 works well on Windows XP and Windows 7.
  • Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint all have a new file format that is not backward compatible. However, each of these applications provides the option of saving files in earlier file formats.
  • All default keyboard and quick menu commands work the same as earlier versions.
Microsoft Office 2003 is obsolete software.

For use by Brown University-paid faculty and staff only. User authentication is required. Students may obtain Microsoft Office through the Microsoft Student Store or through e-academy.

Under Microsoft Enrollment for Education Service (EES), Office may be used exclusively for Brown-related projects, whether on computers owned or leased by Brown University or on computers personally owned by covered users. Covered users are defined as faculty and staff paid by Brown University.

Office must be uninstalled when the user is no longer affiliated with Brown University and may not be installed on computers belonging to other institutions.

By downloading this software you agree to these limitations.
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Last Reviewed: Monday, 14-Feb-2011 13:41:29 EST by Software_Services