Microsoft office 2004 not working

Whenever I try to open any office applications they'll bounce on the bar a fe times but nothing opens. I've repaired the disk permissions and it didn't work. I downloaded the update but whenever I try to open it only almost starts but nothing comes up.

Classically this can be related to corrupt preferences. Go to Home > Library > Preferences You will see a bunch of files starting with com.microsoft., an application name, and ending in .plist Move one or more of these files (I don't know exactly what they all do and it appears there may be some general ones) to someplace other than that folder and try the application again. Note that if this works you can safely trash the file as it will be created again with default settings (so you may need to reset some of your preferences).

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