After upgrading to OS X loin 10.7.3, I can't open any word or excel documents

could any one please tel if you had any isse with word or excel, after upgrading to OS X loin,
I upgraded to OS X loin 10.7.3  today, now I cannot open any of my word documents or excel I get a massage " YOU CANT OPEN THE APPLICATION MICROSOFT WORD BECAUSE POWER PC  APPLICATION ARE NO LONGER SUPPORTED" is there any way I can down grad my mac back to the old versoin os x 10.6.8?
many thanks
george

We can't lay all the blame (or much of it) at Apple's feet.  Over a year before they trotted out Lion they told all the developers and the rest of the Mac community that they would no longer drag Rosetta into the future.   Rosetta translated programs from the PowerPC to the Intel mode.  There are other programs, most notably Quicken 2007, that were affected also. 
MS Office 2008 and 2011 were already out so I don' think Microsoft felt they had to fix something in 2004.  I think many people understood that MS Office 2004 would not work in Lion and there were tutorials out there about how to examine the applications you had to see if they would work with Lion.  There is even a web site dedicated to showing what applications had been tested to work with Lion.  
However, there are always some who do not get the word (no pun intended) and they probably were not that into computers enough to be looking at this news all the time.  
I am glad MS Office 2011 is working for you.
Jay

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