Does Microsoft office 2004 work with lion?

Does Microsoft Office 2004 work with the new Lion OS?

Ptit-Loup wrote:
Angry at Microsoft, and now angry at Apple...
Microsoft killed macros compatibility when upgrading from Excel 2004.
Apple kills OS compatibility with Office 2004 when upgrading to Lion.
I did not upgrade from Excel 2004, since I spent a lot of time and energy  to develop a large number of functions using Excel macros.
I will not upgrade from Snow Leopard.
What else ?
I had the intention to change my 4-year-old 17" Macbook pro, not compatible with Lion, to a newer one. I had... There is no further reason to do that.
Apple, now loosing old supporters and customers ? Or am I getting too old ?
A 4 year old Macbook Pro should run Lion. Unless its a CoreDue and not a Core2Duo. Remember that PPC computers can not even run Snow Leopard. This was when Apple announced that support for PPC programs would be phased out. Office 2004 is almost 8 years old now. Twice as old as your computer you say needs to be replaced. I can't believe people rush in to install a new system without doing a little bit of research, and the dropping of Rosetta to run old PPC programs was well advertised if you read up on Lion, as was the introduction of Mission Control and Versions. I even read up about them, and I'm not a professional like some who come here. May pay to remember to research in future releases.
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