Mac Office 2004 for students

What is the difference between this and the professional office suite? (apart from the obvious difference in price! - £100 for student, £300 for professional).
I want to be able to use Word and Excel, and to send/receive documents to/from PCs at university without any hassle.

Does apple make any office apps that can do word an excel files?
AppleWorks
The good news is that it is already on your iBook!
You might also want to take a look at NeoOffice. It is the Mac OS X version of the free OpenOffice.
In my opinion NeoOffice shows heavily formatted Word documents and Excel spreadsheets better than AppleWorks. But NeoOffice can at times be slower.

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  • Trouble installing Office: 2004 for Mac

    Hello. I hope someone can help me. So here's the deal.
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    So I decided if I have to reinstall all my software, I'd go ahead and use the Office 2004 as I don't think the Office X is fully compatible with Tiger (because of it's age and a few issues I've had with it over the past two years). Now, here's the problem. When I tried to install it, the product ID didn't work as the Product/CD Key. I called my friend and she no longer has the box or the Product Key, and of course, the Product key from my Office X doesn't work.
    So now I'm stuck. Is anyone familiar with Office 2004 for Mac? Is there any difference between the "retail" version and the Student/teacher version that would prevent the Product Key from one with working with the other? Would anyone be willing to share their Product key with me, to install the software so I can get back to work?
    I've already lost 4 days in time (and have to recreate 2 days worth of work that was done after my last file backup) and don't have time to deal with this stuff.
    I may be contacted directly at robertben1 at comcast dot net.
    Thank you in advance for any suggestions/help.
    Message was edited by: Moderator

    Would anyone be willing to share their Product key with me, to install the software so I can get back to work?
    Sorry, that would be illegal.
    Here's a couple of alternatives though...
    NeoOffice...
    http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
    OpenOffice...
    http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/2007/07/current-mac-os-x-openofficeorg-versions .html

  • Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive query

    does this software have a time limit as to how long i can use it for?
    im gettin a new imac, and wondering if i will have to purchase microsoft office 2004 as well as the "Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive" that comes with it.
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    According to http://www.microsoft.com/mac/default.aspx?pid=office2004td the test drive is good for 30 days. Click on the *more info* link to see other limitations. The student edition (available to anyone remotely connected with it) is available for $125 US or cheaper.

  • Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac - missing options

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    Thanks to anyone who has some hints for me!

    Since Office is not an Apple product, you'll probably want to use a forum dedicated to Microsoft's Mac products such as <http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups> rather than an Apple forum that focuses on compatibility issues between Macs and Windows.
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  • How can I remove office 2004 for mac after OSX lion upgrade?

    Can someone help me, I haven't found a viable solution to remove office 2004 for mac from my system?

    Drag the apps to the trash.

  • Anyone using office 2004 for mac,please help!

    Dear all,
    i know this is probably the wrong place for this post,but i've always been able to find my answers here..so genuine apologies in advance
    i bought office 2004 for my macbook a few months back..i'm able to open word,excel etc no problems...but when i am typing in word on a regular document..my spellcheck does not work..even where there is obvious spelling problems,it does not highlight it with a red line underneath...when i run a spell chenck,it tells me its complete and the spelling and grammer are complete,when they are obviously not!!
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    how do i uninstall office completely???
    Before you do an uninstall you may want to test your preference files for corruption. There are three which can become corrupeted, but probably only the first two will be of issue.
    Quit Word and any other Office Applciations.
    Browse to your User home account and locate the following files:
    ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/com.microsoft.Word.prefs.plist
    ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/com.microsoft.Office.prefs.plist
    (the third has to do with fonts and I don't think that is at issue)
    Drag these to your desktop and relaunch Word. Word will re-create these files.
    If all works as it should you can trash these files. You will probably have to reset some preferences and Autocorrect settings. Be careful of what you reset as that may have been the cause of the issue.
    If this does not work you may replace the newly created files with the ones you dragged to the desktop, or you may try re-installing Office.
    If you want to completely remove Office and attempt a re-install to see if it corrects the problem: The uninstaller is located in HD/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Additional Tools/Remove Office.
    I understand that you are in a timecrunch with your paper being due. I am sure with enough troubleshooting that you can and will find a solution to the Office problem. If the above steps do not work, however, you may also want to have a look at the free NeoOffice suite to get your paper done in the meantime.
    http://www.neooffice.org/neojava/en/index.php
    I am not including the link as a means of trying to pawn off the problem as I think any problem is ultimately fixable, but it may give you an option to meeting your deadline.

  • Why is Mac Office:2004/2008 acting strange?

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    I have spent hours on the phone with the tech support people with Microsoft and Apple, but no one seems to be able to have my errant software work properly. In my furstration I purchased the 2011 version of Mac Office.  I stll have the same problems after installing it. 
    I just realized also that when I did an upgrade of the MS Mac Office:2004 to 2007, I continued to save my documents in the 2008 version, but selected the 2004 format to save them.  I understand that 2004 will not even open in the Lion OS X.  So I am beginning to think I may have created an anomoly by intergrating the two versions while in the Lion OS X version.  Does anyone have any nsight to this?
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    I have contacted them many many times.  For two days I waited on the phone for over 1 1/2 hours.  All total I have been on the phone with them over 6 hours and they are not able to find any problems with what I am experiencing.  Thus I fell there is something with the Lion OS X that is the main source of this glitch.  Thanks for your input.

  • Converting from ie and using mac office 2004

    We just upgraded to Mac office 2004 and are trying to figure out how we can insert url's into entourage messages. In the past, we used the Insert command which provided a list from IE's favorites...now that seems to be either impossible or hard to find.
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    That is possible...but the mac office used to have a function that allowed one to (using the insert command) insert a url link stored in IE as a favorite.
    Opening two programs, as you suggest, is somewhat of a step backward and requires the user to open their browser (if not open), find the url in the bookmarks, copy it and then paste it in the email/document.
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  • Mac Office 2004

    I have run Mac Office fine for several months now. Then the other day when I tried to open Word I got this error:
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    Angoose McGoose wrote:
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    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842646
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    I received an email containing a spreadsheet created using Mac Office 2004 on my new MacBook Air equipped with Mac Office 2011.  When I saved the document, my Finder lists the document without the .xls file extension. Why?
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    I know what happened.  When I saved the document I somehow hit the Hide File Extension box.  Sorry to trouble this group. I simply resaved it w/o activating the Hide File Extension feature.

  • Microsoft office 2004 for mac installation problem

    Hi there,
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    The uninstaller is located in the MS Office folder in the Additional Tools folder. There's also one on the Office 2004 X Installer CD.

  • Microsft office 2004  for MAC

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  • Microsoft office 2004 for mac does not work now how do i get it to work!!

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    Office 2008 is the oldest version that runs under lion. Office 2004 requires rosetta, which was discontinued as of 10.7. you'll have to upgrade to office 2008 or newer if you're using lion!

  • Replaced an older IMac that had OS snow leopard and could run microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. I'm told that this version of Office for Mac will not run on OS mountain lion. Is this true? or is there a workaround?

    Just received a new Imac running OS10.8 Mountain Lion. I have MS Office 2004 that ran ok on OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. I'm told that this software will not work on the new OS. Are there any work arounds?

    Nancy L F wrote:
    Just received a new Imac running OS10.8 Mountain Lion. I have MS Office 2004 that ran ok on OS 10.6 Snow Leopard. I'm told that this software will not work on the new OS. Are there any work arounds?
    ... and have only used Word and hate to try to learn something new if not necessary. 
    The dirty little secret that they are keeping from you, is YES, there is a way to continue to use Microsoft Office's Word 2004 in Mountain Lion!  
    It is to install Snow Leopard Server into Parallels 8 on your new Mac and then install and run Word 2004 there:
                                  [click on images to enlarge]
    Apple is now selling Snow Leopard Server for $19.99 + sales tax & shipping costs at 1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753) - Apple Part Number: MC588Z/A (telephone orders only). Parallels 8 retails for $79 but can be found for less searching for discounts on the internet.
    Personally I hate the way Microsoft has changed Word 2008 and Word 2011, because I was 100% comfortable with how Word 2004 was setup and utilized.  There is a learning curve to both of these upgrades and a more steeper one to the "free" alternatives that were suggested to you.
    In a perfect world, you should upgrade to Office 2011; I did (actually it was a gift, but the price was not an object for me anyway). But the world is not perfect...
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  • Office 2004 for Mac update 11.3.0 problems

    When I was notified by AutoUpdate that there was a new version of Office for Mac available (I have been using it for nearly three years), I followed instructions and after the download got the message: "The installer could not locate the correct version of the software required to install this update. See the Read Me file included with this installer to determine if your software meets the requirements for this update."
    I reinstalled Office 2004 and then attempted to download and install the previous updates 11.2.0 and got the same message. The previous install had accepted 11.2.0, and I am now back at 11.0. Also, when I now activate Word, I get an error message "An unexpected error occurred while trying to load the Microsoft Framework library." However, after clicking the OK button on this message, I can proceed and use Word normally. Do I have any real problems here?
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    Back again. The Remove Office tool did its thing. I repaired permissions. Then reinstalled from CD. Then repaired permissions. Opened each element of Office once and closed it. Repaired permissions. Ran Microsoft AutoUpdate. Showed downloading 11.3.0 but would not do anything after download. The same messages as before came up. And I cannot comfortably find that Microsoft stuff in the Library. There is quite a bit of Microsoft file types in the Library and I left them alone.
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