I can't open excel as its a powerPC app what do I do?  Help ....

I can't open excel as its a powerPC app what do I do? 
It tells me PowerPC applications are no longer supported - I wish I'd been told this before upgrading to Lion
Help ....

I can't open excel as its a powerPC app what do I do?
Buy a newer version of Office (assuming it supports Lion). I don't know how the free Office substitutes (Open Office, Neo Office) stand as regards to Lion support.  Apple has its own Office equivalent (Numbers, Pages) but I have never seen a copy so I can't say anything about it.
As Klaus said, dropping PPC coding support was mentioned before release, but is obviously not the first thing they are going to tell you about Lion.  For those of us using Macs the rule of thumb has been for support to drop roughly 4 years after a hardware or software platform has been discontinued.  This is no publicized formal policy but if you check the various hardware and software releases over the past decade you'll see that support discontinues about 2 OS releases after whatever was current at the time. Leopard was the last OS that ran on PPC, and Lion is 2 OS releases after Leopard, so I don't think any of us are surprised that anything related to PPC is now gone.  Unfortunately it just means that Mac owners have to either be well-heeled to make more frequent computer purchases, or you have to be savvy and figure workarounds and be thankful for third party support.

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