I just "upgraded" to Lion - now my version of Microsoft Professional is apparently not supported. Is there a fix?

I just installed Lion on my iMac, tried to open an Office Document and received a message " You can't open the application Microsoft Word because PowerPC applications are no longer supported." My version of Office Professional is not that old - is there a fix for this? The $29 upgrade to Lion is not worth having to replace my software.

Your version of Office dates back to 2004 before there were Intel Macs. Lion does not support PPC-only applications such as Office 2004 so you need to upgrade it to Office 2011 which is compatible with Lion.
You will have this same issue with any other older PPC-only applications, so they, too, will need to be updated.

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