[G4] office X

[Joseph W. Chance]

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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