Is OSX lion compatible with microsoft office for mac 2008

Can anybody out there please give me a definitive answer to this question: Is OSX Lion compatible with Microsoft Office for Mac 2008? The technical support people of both Apple and Microsoft could not provide me wth a useful answer to a question that must interest hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions. I don't want to download the new OS and then encounter nasty problems.

Yes. The only problem you could face, is if you want to reinstall MS Office 2008 on Lion - this is not possible, because the installer runs on Rosetta, which is no longer supported in Lion. But if you already have Office installed, there should be absolutely no problems.

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Hi,
I heard that microsoft office 2004 for Mac is not compatible with mOSX Lion ?
What is the matter ?
Regards,
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Hi Eric,
No. It need Rosetta which is software that Apple licensed from IBM 5 years ago. This was when Apple switched from PowerPC chips to Intel. Microsoft have had 5 years to write a fix for this but they have not done so, instead they have updated later releases of Office that will work. Maybe Microsoft want you to buy the new version?
I think I have read that OpenOffice will work with any Office 2004 documents.
Regards,
Colin R.
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Problems with Microsoft Office for Mac 2008

Hi,
I replaced my old mac around two months ago so I now own a Macbook Pro with Lion. Since then, whenever I open Microsoft Word, or a previously saved document, it also opens other documents I've saved since I bought the laptop. However, this does not include the documents I managed to retrieve from my previous Mac.
Is anyone aware of a way to prevent this happening?
Thank you

I'm sorry, but I have the same problem and neither the article indicated or using First Aid on the keychains have fixed it - problems occurred after installing Office 2008. What else can I try?
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mjf

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Can someone tell me how to delete empty text boxes from an excel spreadsheet (microsoft office for mac 2008). I must be overlooking something. Thank you for your reply.

Hmmmm...I'm guessing somebody else has run into this...is there a better place for me to post my question in the forum? Or does everybody in the forum see the question regardless of the catagory it is posted under? I wasn't sure which catagory it should go under.

Can i run microsoft office for mac 2008 or 2011 on my imac G5 2GHz power pc (3.0) ??

can i run microsoft office for mac 2008 or 2011 on my imac g5?
i have the os x leopard version 10.5.1 cd ...i dont know if i want to install it
what should i do?

You can run Office 2008 but not 2011.
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How to help my friend install Microsoft Office for Mac 2008

Hello, I have a friend in North Carolina whose mom recently got a MacBook Pro running OS X Mountian Lion (10.8), he will be coming on to join this discussion after I post it. He needs Microsoft Office for his mom and I just happened to have purchase 3 licenses (two of which I have already utilized). While talking to him over a Facetime call, I walked him through the steps of getting the free office for mac 2008 package from download.com (which seemed kind of sketchy). While the download actually looked legitimate, we ran the installer and it gave some kind of weird error message that said something like "Could not be installed onto Macintosh HD because the Mac OS X is not on that parition" (I'm paraphrasing my friend will contribute the actual message). Could someone please walk us through an easier (and preferably more secure) process? We just need to get to the point where I can give him my last license key. Thanks!
YraYra

You will have to check with Microsoft but I think what you are doing is illegal. The 3 license pack I think means 1 user 3 computers, not 2 users 3 computers.
You might have better luck posting on the Office for Mac forum. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac?auth=1

I want to cry - I cannot load Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 on my new Imac.

I have tried three times without success.
I did trial the Microsoft Office for a month and the instructions were to remove all components of the previously loaded 30-day free trial program prior to installing the purchased software. I think I have done this but I am not sure. I wanted to phone and speak with someone but there is no phone number I can call.
Where are they all? Who can I speak with?
Frustated granny.

Did the MS Office free trial have an option to uninstall? Some software comes with an uninstall option, even though in Macs usually just dragging the application in question to the Trash is sufficient.
Where did you obtain the free trial version from to begin with? Although it sounds counterintuitive, "sometimes" after a user "partially" uninstalls a program manually, they may have to reinstall it (in your case "it" would be the free trial version) and then choose the uninstall option.
I'm just throwing this out there. I've had no recent experience with the free trial version of MS Office.
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Steve M.
P.S. This may point you in the right direction:
http://kb.iu.edu/data/aprq.html
Message was edited by: Steve M.

My imac was running snow leopard and was upgraded to Mt. Lion. My Microsoft Office for Mac now will not open. SO since my Office was 2004, I just purchased Office for Mac 2011. Do I delete the icons before loading Office 2011 OR after I load 2011?

Upgraded my Imac to Mt. Lion and now the Microsoft Office icons will not open WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, or ENTOURAGE. I just pruchased on Ebay
OFFICE 2011 since my old version was 2004. DO I REMOVE THE OLD ICONS BEFORE LOADING OFFICE 2011 RO AFTER I LOAD IT???
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Office 2011 will install in a separate folder. But do not install Office 2011 until you remove Office 2004. It comes with its own uninstalled located in the MS Office folder. Only use the uninstaller to get rid of it. Then install Office 2011.
Office 2004 and Other Applications Don't Work in Lion/Mountain Lion
If you have Office 2004 which is a PPC-only suite, it will not work in Lion/Mountain Lion. You need to upgrade to Office 2011 - Mactopia - or you can try the freeware suite, Libre Office, that is functionally similar to Office 2007 for Windows except it works on Lion/Mountain Lion.
You may want to consider as well:
These two suites are similar to Libre Office but not as current or as well-supported:
NeoOffice
Open Office
And, then there is Apple's iWork suite:
Pages - word processing and layout
Keynote - presentation
Numbers - spreadsheet
Each can open and save Office compatible files. They may be purchased separately via the Mac App Store for $19.99 each.
As for other software, any PPC-based software will not run in Lion or Mountain Lion because Rosetta is no longer part of OS X. You will need to upgrade to Intel versions of the software.
(Access to the Mac App Store requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or higher and an Apple ID.)

HT4759 Can I place documents created with Microsoft Office for Mac, eg. WORD, or .pdf files be stored in iCloud? If so, how can I put them there?

Hi,
I am trying to learn how to use iCloud, would like to hsve it my documents on it, which are mostly created in WORD (part of Microsoft Office Suite for Mac) or .pdf files. I don'r see how to get them into iCloud. Actually I don't see how to place anything at all in iCloud other than contacts, etc. I am not seeing how it can be usedul to me.

I should have been more clear. You have to buy the iWork programs from Apple. They are available in the App Store.
Pages: http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/
Numbers: http://www.apple.com/iwork/numbers/
$20 each.
The iWork programs are integrated with iCloud and work fairly automatically with it. iCloud is only intended for specific purposes and is not intended for general purpose storage.
Dropbox is though, and it's free.

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Yes. The only problem you could face, is if you want to reinstall MS Office 2008 on Lion - this is not possible, because the installer runs on Rosetta, which is no longer supported in Lion. But if you already have Office installed, there should be absolutely no problems.

Having trouble getting Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 to run.

I recently upgraded my iMac to ML, but since then I've had difficulty getting the app to run. It would give me an error message and an error log. Then I created a new user profile to see if it'll run there (under system prefs, then under users & groups). Well, it did run. It opened just fine under the new user profile. So it can't be a problem with the new OS. So what is it with my primary user profile? What is keeping Office from running in one user profile and not another?

I am assuming that you are attempting to download a copy of Microsoft Office directly from the Microsoft Store ... correct? If so, you cannot use the product key from the CD as this key is specifically used for the software on that CD. You would need to acquire a new product key as you would need to purchase another copy of Office for your MacBook Air.
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Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 crashes

I have recently upgraded (probably the wrong term) to Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac. Since then I have been running into stability problems. Excel just closes intermittently and my work is lost unless I have just saved. I use Excel a lot because Numbers doesn't have certain abilities I need. I did not have a problem with Excel in the previous version even on Leopard.
Now when I work with print layout and prefilling cells, the system is exceptionally vulnerable.
I've checked to make sure I have the most current versions of everything.
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Right now I have two files I can not print because each time I go to print excel crashes. I just tried 6 times before writing this post.
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Rick,
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I'm afraid so. Too bad you didn't apply the 2008 upgrade while your old MacBook was working. Then you could have migrated 2008 to the new machine from the MacBook's hard drive even if the rest of the MacBook was dead.

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that's strange as I pasted in a screen grab.
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