Microsoft Word No Longer Works With Lion?

It says something like "You can't open Microsoft Word Because Power PC Applications are no longer supported."
This just happened after updating to Lion. Is there anything I can do?
DC

Return to Mac OS X 10.6.8, or upgrade Office to 2008 or better, or use a third-party product such as OpenOffice, or run Mac OS X Server 10.5 or 10.6 through a program such as VirtualBox.
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