After installing Lion I lost Microsoft Office. Is there a patch or way to restore excel

After installing OS Lion Microsoft Office with Word & Excel was lost. How can I recover those programs?

This is something else: Office 2004, based on PPC code, cannot be used in Lion. This is sad, as 2004 was the best MS Office ever. If you like it, stay with Leopard or SL, if Lion, then 2011 (and 2008, I guess).

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    darkhorse85 wrote:
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