Office Suites

Microsoft Office is a suite of productivity software used widely in both educational and business environments. Microsoft Office includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Each version of Office also comes with email and calendaring software — Outlook for Windows and Entourage for Mac. All BC students, faculty, and staff may install one copy of Office for personal use.

If you would like to learn more about using Office, training is available on-line through Microsoft e-Learning.

Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows Vista, XP, and 2000

Write papers, manage data, and create presentations using Microsoft Office 2007 on your Windows Vista, XP, or 2000 computer. Please note that the Oracle Connector for Outlook and the Iron Mountain backup client are not currently compatible with Office 2007. New versions of both programs are in development. |    |

Microsoft Office 2003 for Windows Vista, XP, and 2000

Write papers, manage data, and create presentations using Microsoft Office 2003 on your Windows Vista, XP, or 2000 computer. |   |

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 file formats.

By installing the Compatibility Pack along side of Microsoft Office XP, or Office 2003, you will be able open, edit, save, and create files using the Open XML Formats new to the 2007 Microsoft Office system. |

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X

Write papers, manage data, and create presentations using Microsoft Office 2008 on your Mac OS X computer. Please note that Visual Basic (VB) is not supported in this version of Office. This means that some functions that were available in earlier versions of Office for Mac are not available in Office 2008, such as the analysis tools in Excel. |   |

Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X

Write papers, manage data, and create presentations using Microsoft Office 2004 on your Mac OS X computer.  |    |