[G4] office X

Joseph W. Chance jchance at midsouth.rr.com
Wed Sep 24 17:26:23 PDT 2003


You are right.  If your airport network is up when you activate the 
second copy, it will balk.  However, if you turn off the airport and 
the start the program, I am told that when the wireless network 'comes 
back up', it works without a problem.
On Wednesday, Sep 24, 2003, at 19:19 US/Central, Paul Cooper wrote:

> OK, hypothetically now, if I had installed a copy of Microsoft office 
> X on my G4 tower and the same copy on my ti-book and both machines 
> were on a wireless network how would I be able to use word or excel or 
> whatever on the ti-book while it was open on the tower? I've HEARD 
> that if office is running on one machine it won't let the program open 
> on the other machine.
> I would of course never do that - I'd spend $400 on the software for 
> each machine - but hypothetically.....
>
> Paul
>
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