HT1338 office mac 2004 download issues onto iMac

I traded my macbook for an iMac and am having a problem downloading my office mac 2004 to my new computer. I have the product keys.

What will work depends on what you want to do.
A) Do you need Mountain Lion (10.8.x). That is, do you have newer software which will not in Snow Leopard (10.6.x) and you had to upgrade to a newer version of OS X. This would include iCloud, which only exists for Lion (10.7.x) or Mountain Lion.
B) You have no real need to upgrade to Mountain Lion.
If A, then:
1) As MlchaelLAX suggests, you can run Snow Leopard Server in a virtual machine such as Parallels or VMWare. Apple is currently selling Snow Leopard Server for only $20 to accommodate users who must maintain the use of older PowerPC software. Once you have the VM software installed, you then install SL Server within the VM. The end result is you have two versions of OS X running at the same time. Mountain Lion as the host OS, and Snow Leopard in the VM. You can then install Office 2004 within the VM under SL Server.
Be aware of cost and time. The cost of Parallels and SL Server isn't going to be all that much less than just upgrading to Office 2011. Be aware there are two versions. The more expensive Office 2011 Business Edition includes Outlook (replaces Entourage). The Home/Student version does not.
If B, then:
Restore your last backup to put your Mac back to Snow Leopard and leave it there. If you don't have a backup, you'll need to first backup any files you cannot lose, since reinstalling Snow Leopard will require erasing the drive.

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