Question getting Rosetta to run Office 2004

I am trying to get Office 2004 to work on a new iMac 7". The user does not know which of the 20 copies of Office are his product id so I need to copy the office folder over to his new Mac. When I do this and click on an application it starts terminal. When I install Office from the cd it runs fine with Rosetta but since I copy his installation over it tries to run terminal. Any thoughts how i can force it to use Rosetta to run? I thought I could select the app and click get info and pick use Rosetta check-box but there is none.

but as so many people have found out if you have the Office cd's and serial numbers you still cannot figure out which copy is installed.
Which seems pretty dumb. You can call up "About Word" (or Excel, PowerPoint) and it will show you the product ID number you were assigned by the online registration, but not the product key you used. So it is just about impossible to determine which product keys have already been used.
That said, it doesn't matter what CD you use to install Office. The keys are not on the disk. The installer uses a checksum that validates whether or not the product key you enter is good. The Adobe CSx disks and most other software is the same way. It would cost an absolute fortune to actually press a unique disk which contains an ID that matches the activation ID sticker that comes in the package. So your only real issue is trying to figure out which product ID to use.
So I guess the answer is there is no way to tell OSX to use Rosetta to run Office?
As I said, you don't have a choice. Office 2004 contains only PPC code and so has to run in Rosetta. That's why there's no option to choose it.

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