Problem Installing Office 2011

I'm having a problem installing Office 2011 on a 11" MacBook Air running OS 10.7.2. I've tried installing from a remote disk with the Office CD and installing a trial version downloaded from the Office website but neither has worked.
Everything seems to install correctly, but when you try to click on any icon to start up, the icon bounces once or twice, then nothing else happens.
Any ideas?

See if anyone here can help you: http://www.microsoft.com/mac/support

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What version of Office do you now have? You must have 14.3.8 to install 14.3.9. And 14.3.8 requires 14.3.7, etc.

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I had to replace a dead hard drive on my old 2007 iMac. Now I am unable to install Office 2011 on an iMac that had this version of office before the old HD died. I know there are restrictions on the number of installations. Must I purchase Office 2011 again or is there another legal option?

How is the program failing to install? You should be able to install the program no matter what, but when you run it you should get an activation window. At this point you'd enter your serial number ... and depending on how Microsoft is creating its special ID code for each computer, the new drive may or may not make the activation computer think you are activating a different computer.
If the problem is that you cannot even install the program, you should be able to download it from Microsoft's website and use your serial number to reactivate. If the activation fails you can call Microsoft and explain the situation. This is something I've done frequently since I also work with Windows. In most cases a quick explanation of the circumstances resolves the issue.

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First restart the Mac, then try to start Excel again, if it fails go to Mactopia Downloads for Office 2011, download all updates for Office 2011, (there are 3) apply the in order (14.02 is first, 14.13 last) follow the instructions, you may have to restart your computer more than once.
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Hello,
I'm unable to install Office 2011 (as an invitation for Office 365) on my Macbook Pro retina 10.10.1.
Everything goes well until I get to the install part and the setup does not ask me for password, effectively halting the installation. What can I do?
I tried to download 2 times, use safe boot... I can install any program (including Outlook) but not Office 2011... help?
I uploaded a video of my 11th try to youtube...

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I am not able to close Microsoft Database Daemon or SyncServicesAgent applications to install Office 2011 14.4.1 update. Could you assist me? Thanks in advance

I am not able to close Microsoft Database Daemon or SyncServicesAgent applications to install Office 2011 14.4.1 update. Could you assist me? Thanks in advance

The updater should close those processes for you - it didn't used to do so but should now.
If it won't quit the processes for you, open Activity Monitor (Applications>Library folder), search for the processes and quit them. You should be able to install the update now.
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Does anyone know which additional file I need in order to install Office 2011 on my iMac? I downloaded the MS suite but can't install it because Mac needs some other file in order to do the install. Thanks in advance for any suggestions!

Csound1,
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When do you get this error?
Microsoft has a great forum for working with their products for Mac. That might be a better place to ask.
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http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/15/repair-user-permissions-in-mac-os-x-lion/

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Just installed Micro Office 2011 on my 13" MacBook Retina and now Safari is not working correctly. Pages load very slowly or not at all.
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Test while logged in as Guest. Same problem?
After testing, log out of the guest account and, in your own account, disable it if you wish. Any files you created in the guest account will be deleted automatically when you log out of it.
*Note: If you’ve activated “Find My Mac” or FileVault, then you can’t enable the Guest account. The “Guest User” login created by “Find My Mac” is not the same. Create a new account in which to test, and delete it, including its home folder, after testing.
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I can't install Office 2011 Mac

Good afternook to ebveryone, I've a question for you.
Some times ago I've bougt a version of Office 2011 for Mac, I've installed it and its updates without any kind of problems.
Recently I resored my macbook pro installing, fom zero, a new copy of OSX Mountain Lion. I've installed BootCamp for Windows 7.
Since I've done this I can't install any update of Office 2011 because my version of OSX is not recognised (computer says that is needed an upper versionof OSX, upper that 10.4.....).
I've Mac OSX 10.8.2 and so I don't understand what is wrong.
Have you got any ideas?
Thanks a lot.
Regards
Enrico Catanzani

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A friend just purchased a 25" iMac. All is well, until I install MS Office 2011. I haven't seen this, but she reports font problems (foreign language defaults or file import gibberish, I don't now). Is this a common complaint. The OS is Mavericks.

The font conflicts came from the installation of Office 2011. It installs a handful of old, OS 9 style TrueType fonts that conflict with the newer OpenType fonts installed by OS X. While you already did use Font Book to resolve the conflicts (it turned one or the other off), you should remove the offending older fonts from the drive.
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