Used Migration Asst and Word / Excel won't open on Macbook Air

I used the migration assistant to transfer Microsoft Word from my Macbook Pro to my Air and originally it was working, but now everytime I try to open and Excel or Word doc, it launches the Microsoft Office Setup Assistant. The only 2 options are to Learn More and Register. I've clicked on both and they take me to a web browser where it shows me 2011. I don't understand why it worked originally and now it's not working?
Any suggestions?

Migration Assistant is usually pretty good at copying software and all the requisite library files, so on the face of it, this should have worked. It leads me to wonder hich version of MS Office are you trying to use?
ON EDIT: Prior versions of Office are PPC-native apps and Lion doesn't support non-Intel software. If your MBP was running a prior MacOS (10.5 or 10.6 for example) then an earlier Office suite would work on that, but not when transfered to a Lion-based system.

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