Will MS Office 2008 run on Snow Leopard?

I'm upgrading to Snow Leopard and had MS Office on my MacBook, can I use the same installation cd on 10.6? This is an early 2008 office cd.

I am running Office 2008 on OSX 10.6.3. I'm not sure if there were any different versions of the MSO disk, but my copy is from around Feb 2009, so I think you'll be ok.

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you don't write what kind of crash you are facing. The one I met was that after launching any of office programs it hanged on splash window, telling "Optimizing menu font performace".
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Since installing SL on my mac, ms 2008 word and excel crash all the time.
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I had similar problems - none of the Office 2008 applications would load after I upgraded to SL, and they seemed to be tied to the font book application.
Here's a response that I got from Microsoft support:
Based on your email, after updating to Snow Leopard the Office applications are not opening freezing at the Optimizing font menu.
The first steps you have done for deleting the font cache and Office preferences usually resolve this sort of issue. I have seen it work best when we are booted into the safe boot.
I would like to boot the computer into safe boot, delete the preferences again and then try opening Office while still in Safe Boot.
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1. Shut down the computer.
2. Press the power button.
3. Immediately after you hear the startup tone, press and hold the SHIFT key.
Note: The SHIFT key should be held as soon as possible after you hear the startup tone. However, do not press the SHIFT key before you hear the startup tone.
4. Release the SHIFT key when you see the grey Apple and progress indicator on the screen. The progress indicator looks similar to a spinning gear.
5. During the startup, you will see the words "Safe Boot" on the Mac OS X startup screen.
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b. Immediately press the SHIFT key. This will bypass any startup items in the Startup Items folder.
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7. Drag the "Microsoft" folder to the trash (don't empty the trash)
8. I would like you to restart the computer again into safe boot
To get back to a regular boot, just restart the Mac, go to the Apple and choose to restart the Mac.
In reality, I found the the solution was to Validate fonts and delete all duplicate or identified damaged fonts. Once I did that and applied the Microsoft advice above, the Office applications loaded fine.

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