Microsoft Office 2011 fails to work on new iMac

I received my new iMac in mid December, and I used the Migration Assistant to move everything. Unsurprisingly, MS Office failed to work. I paid MS another $12 so I could download a new copy of MS Office 2011 and tried installing it. Installation succeeded, but every time I opened a Word or Excel file, it crashed.
I deleted Office from both iMacs, old and new, including all of the MS files hidden everywhere. Reinstalled but the same thing happens. Deleted everything, including the downloaded disk image, downloaded it again, and reinstalled.
Same result--crash!
I have no idea what to try next. My wife is beginning to doubt my technical expertise. I've tried to mollify her with OpenOffice and Pages, but she is getting frustrated and angry.
Any ideas on what to try? Please save my marriage!

Your original post states:
I deleted Office from both iMacs, old and new, including all of the MS files hidden everywhere.
I have no idea what files you have deleted, and what files have been left behind, you have no guarantee that you deleted every single file from the thousands of files Office installs, a single preference file left on your machine is enough to cause Office to fail.
As you  made a serious  error in using Migration to use Office on a new machine, I did not take as absolute certainty you  made a proper and complete uninstall of Office.
If you need Office to work quickly, your option now is to clean install your Mac; 
back up your work files
erase the hard drivereinstall the operating system
install Office correctly
You will be up and running in 2 hours.

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