Mountain Lion eliminated my MS Word program. I can't find a replacement in my computer. Any suggestions?

Mountain Lion eliminated my MS Word program and I can't find a replacement in my iMac Intel computer. Any suggestions?

Depending upon how extensive your library of legacy Microsoft Office data files are, you may want to consider continuing to use Microsoft Office 2004 in addition to upgrading to Office 2011.
Microsoft Office's 2011 version is compatible with Lion and presumably either works with Mountain Lion or an update will make it so. The problem with this approach is that Office 2011 will "convert" your earlier data files and there lies the rub! For example, I have the need to weekly open a chart created in Excel 2004, but Excel 2011 trashes the chart in its "conversion."
So I have approached the overall problem differently.
The reason your applications do not work in Mountain Lion is that they were written for the older PowerPC CPU that all Macs used up to 2006. When Apple made its transition to the Intel CPU, they licensed software that they included in all versions of OS X (from Tiger to Leopard and optionally, Snow Leopard) called Rosetta.
Rosetta miraculously allows PowerPC applications to work on the Intel processor transparently; you do not know it is even present.
The problem is that after 6 years of the transition, Apple's license to use the underlying software expired for OS X Lion and all version thereafter (and it is doubtful that the current owner of the software, IBM, would relicense it, even if Apple were inclined to do so).
So for those of use that need to run Lion, I have offered the option to install Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels 7:
[click on images to enlarge]
And now Mountain Lion:
Full Snow Leopard installation instructions into Parallels 7 are here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1365439
Parallels offers a 14 day free trial of Parallels 7 on their website:
http://www.parallels.com/download/desktop/

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I am not at all smart when it comes iMac App's.
Having upgraded to 10.7 Lion, find that I cannot open any word documents , nor can I gain access to my Entourage email folders. I am now left feeling thatthis is really not my era.
I am an old guy attempting to keep up the young guy's technology and no longer have idea what I am doing.
I have managed to start anew with Mail.
But have no idea how to find or proceed without the now unsupported Microsoft Word application.
Where can I find a replacement for Word, and how may I ever be able to get into my old Word Documents?
Since upgrading from Snow leopard I find that I am unable to get my Seagate hard drive selected as a location for Time Machine back-upswhen running through System Preferences.
Any help on these issues would be greatly appreciated
Please excuse any lack of ettiquitte in this submission, I am new to this culture.

Thanks Barney, I am now using pages to open exisiting Word documents. and then saving in the new format. I then trash the old incompatable (.doc) file.
This works OK, but it will be a time consuming operation to be repearted on each file that I use.
Is there any shortcut to enable sync all of the .doc files to Page?
I have not managed to recover Entourage email files . But now use Mail application, which is fine.
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Since upgrading to OSX10.7 print files do not load to the printer. The Epson job box shows data is being sent to printer but it the task is never completed.
I take this to be a Printer Driver issue.
Today, I have been in contact with Epson Printer support, enquiring if they have any driver updates for RX430 that would be compatable with OSX10.7 Lion.
I was notified by Epson that they do not have any drivers for any of their printers for the new OSX 10.7.
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Adobe App Mgr on Mountain Lion says Acrobat X installed, but I can't find it?

I have a Mac Pro early 2009 running OS 10.81. I originally downloaded Acrobat X Pro as part of my Creartive Cloud subscription. Then it worked as well as the other Apps I installed. However, when I had a computer disk problem and used Time Machine to restore things, Acrobat X Pro seems to have disappeared. It is no longer listed under Finder Applications. The Adobe Application Manager says it is installed so I can't redownload it.
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searching the internet i found a link to upgrtade to 10.7
The only place you get get Lion is from the Mac App Store. If you found some other site, that was an illegal copy and almost certainly tied to someone else's Apple ID and hence unusable by you. If the link was just to the Mac App Store, see above.
As to the problem with synchronization to iCloud, that's not a 10.6 question, so I'd suggest you take up that specific issue in either the Lion or iCloud forums, providing full details, and someone there can probably help you sort things out.
Regards.

Using Mountain Lion (OS 10.8), in Contacts, how can I show a count of number of contacts total and/or number of contacts in a group?

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If you scroll the list to the bottom, there might be a count. I haven't figured out why you sometimes get a count and other times you don't.

Mountain Lion broke vectordesigner 1.7.0. Can I run it in compatibility mode to Lion?

Hi,
if anyone could help? Mountain Lion broke vectordesigner 1.7.0. Can I run it in compatibility mode to Lion?
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Regards
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There isn't a "compatibility" mode.
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http://roaringapps.com/apps:table/tags/_v/index_tags/_v

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What do you mean by "disabled"?

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Don't post in all caps. Besides being more difficult to read it's tantamount to shouting and is considered rude in forums. What problems are you having? What model Mac do you have, how much RAM and free space on the boot drive?
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I prepare chronologies in word, and i am trying to do the same in pages using tables and cells. But somtimes i need a cell to wrap onto the next page but I can't work out how to do it - any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

I prepare chronologies in word, and I am trying to do the same in pages using tables and cells. But sometimes I need a cell to wrap onto the next page because the contents are bigger than the page or the space left on the page, but I can't work out how to do it - any suggestions would be greatly appreciated

brendanfromsydney wrote:
What are the different opinions on why pages should not achieve this?
As far as I know, Apple is free to choose to offer this or that feature.
They never said that they want to clone Word or even compete with it.
Differences between tables in both worlds are numerous.
In Pages (or Numbers)
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- we can't sort by row
- we can't insert or remove a single cell
- a cell can't cross pages boundaries
If I understand well these design choices match :
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines:
Apply the 80 Percent Solution
During the design process, if you discover problems with your product design, you might consider applying the 80 percent solution‚ that is, designing your software to meet the needs of at least 80 percent of your users. This type of design typically favors simpler, more elegant approaches to problems.
If you try to design for the 20 percent of your target audience who are power users, your design may not be usable by the other 80 percent of users. Even though that smaller group of power users is likely to have good ideas for features, the majority of your user base may not think in the same way. Involving a broad range of users in your design process can help you find the 80 percent solution.
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Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 9 juin 2011 16:03:52
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