Installed lion and can't run office!

Hi, I installed Lion in my laptop.  Now I can't run office:mac products.  when I click on icons or docs I get redirected to iworks. 
Has someone found a solution to this that does not imply purchasing yet more software??

MlchaelLAX wrote:
If you are unable to upgrade your Microsoft Office products consider installing Snow Leopard (and Rosetta) into Parallels 7 in Lion and run Microsoft Office 2004 concurrently:
Some people have expressed compatibility problems with data files from 2004 when opened in MS Office 2008 or 2011. 
For example, I have an important spreadsheet with a chart created in Excel 2004 that when opened in Excel 2011, the chart is completely unusable.  I continue to use this file weekly and I do so with Excel 2004 in my Parallels 7 Snow Leopard Environment with ease.
Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
Whooa! Here we go! Never heard of this hack before!! Most simply update their programs.
Marvellous.
Thank you Mr. Lax (ative)
Pete

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