MS Office for Mac crashes in Mountain Lion

Since upgrading to Mountain Lion yesterday, none of my MS Office for Mac (2008) programs launch - anyone know if there's a fix for that? Of course, I can't run any updates etc as it hangs at the splash screen.
I don't have the discs any longer (lost in a move) and I begrudge buying another version when I only use it to open documents people send me in Word, etc. I use the iWork suite myself but need to be able to open Word & Excel and make changes.
Anyone know of a fix for getting them working again (ideally) or at least a workaround if I can download something else (e.g. a 'lite' version or something) to open them and edit.
Thanks in advance.

Mark Hughes Proximity wrote:
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion yesterday, none of my MS Office for Mac (2008) programs launch - anyone know if there's a fix for that? Of course, I can't run any updates etc as it hangs at the splash screen.
I don't have the discs any longer (lost in a move) and I begrudge buying another version when I only use it to open documents people send me in Word, etc. I use the iWork suite myself but need to be able to open Word & Excel and make changes.
Anyone know of a fix for getting them working again (ideally) or at least a workaround if I can download something else (e.g. a 'lite' version or something) to open them and edit.
Thanks in advance.
That's weird because I'm running MSOffice 2008 in Mountain Lion without any trouble. I also use Office 2011 without any issues.
I can only assume that you didn't install ML correctly.
Try installing ML again, maybe?
Also make sure that the folder "Microsoft Office 2008" is in your "Applications" folder and not nested inside any other folder. ML doesn't like you keeping your applications anywhere other than directly in the "Applications" folder.
BTW in my opinion LibreOffice is better than OpenOffice - although it's still clunky.

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