Will MS Office 2008 work with Lion?

I purchased Lion but cancelled the download when I read that people were having trouble running MS office programs on the operating system. Does anyone know how well MS office 2008 applications run, if at all, on Lion? Thanks!

I have two friends who say for sure 2011 works.
2008 apparently is being told not supported.
did you do a clean install or just an upgrade on the os?
when using 3rd party apps it is important to back up all your work, and do a clean install of the os, wiping everything, then reinstalling the apps.
there is a trick to doing a clean install. You can find the instructions in this thread. WHY apple has made it literally IMPOSSIBLE for average mac users to easily choose the option of a clean install with Lion is a mystery to me. With Lion Apple remotely has control of your operating system. They can change and update anything on it that they see fit without your knowing they even did.

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well considering it's worked on Lion for over a year, I'd say yes.
Please post further Office questions on Microsoft's own forums for their Mac software: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac

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davezebra wrote:
Sorry I meant MS office 2008 for MAC, not 97
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Will Microsoft Office 2001 work with the Lion upgrade?

Will Microsoft Office 2001 work with the Lion upgrade?
Will one have to reinstall after the Lion upgrade?

Office 2001 will not work with Lion. That is a Power PC App which is no longer supprted in Lion. You should upgrade to Office 2011, Apple iWork, or Open Office.

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will excel 2008 work with Lion?

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Does microsoft office 2011 work with lion

does microsoft office 2011 work with lion

...since upgrading from a Macbook pro to a retina pro (with the latest OS) I cannot get Outlook to work, it freezes when I try to add my email accounts info...
The latest OS is 10.8.2. You've posted in the Lion (OS 10.7.x) forum.
...I don't have a clue what can be going wrong, it was all working fine on my macbook pro with Snow Leopard and the same setup is not working with Mountain Lion on the retina, ...The only reason I upgraded from Office 2008 was because I couldn't get it to stop closing down every few seconds with 'a problem'...
Different operating systems canNOT be the "same setup."
In my original installation of Office 2011 on a 2007 MBP with OS 10.6.8, I followed the guidelines Tips for a Successful Install. In launching Outlook 2011 for the first time, it recognized that I had Entourage 2004 and I was chose the option to have all the data transferred to Outlook 2011. While that was well over a year ago, I'm fairly certain that I did not need to manually set up my multitude of existing email accounts. Subsequently, I've added new accounts. A couple of months ago, I got a new mid-2012 MBP (non-retina) with OS 10.7.4. I used Pondini's advice , which I found here in the Apple Support Community for OS 10.7, to setup the new MBP from the old MBP with Setup Assistant. Afterwards, I manually installed my applications. I am certain that I did not need to manually setup any email accounts when I launched Outlook 2011.
That said, if you did not fix the problem that you were experiencing with Office 2008 (and more specifically Entourgage 2008) but migrated that data to your new rMBR, then your problem may lie within the old data. You have not provided information on how you installed Office 2011, if your setup of Outlook is as new or datea ported from Entourage, and what troubleshooting steps you have tried. As Kurt Lang suggested, the Microsoft Community would be best with your specific issues as stated.
HTH

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Does Entourage 2008 work with Lion? I have heard conflicting reports...
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Since En'rage does so many things the conflicting reports probably have to do with whether the program is being used just for mail, just for the calendar, or for both. For what its worth, I'm not happy with the 2011 version's performance in Lion. I've gone back to Mail and began using BusyCal

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I updated to Lion and my old office will not work... will office 11 be able to read and use my old office files ...word and excel?

Office 2011 will work with Lion, old doc files will work with 2011 as long as MS hasn't done something in Office 2011. I have had no problems with files from as far back as office 2003 with 2011.

Does Office 2008 works on Lion?

Does Office 2008 run on Lion?

If your using Mac's in a mission critical type environment or have third party hardware or software you must rely upon working correctly. It's advised to wait until all the bugs, driver updates, third party software updates and other issues are resolved before upgrading. This might take several months. Then if you do so, do one machine at a time and carefully test everything before full deployment.
BackupLion Bootable 10.7 Disk
Purchaseand download Lion from the Mac App Store on any Lion compatible Macrunning Snow Leopard.
Right click on “Mac OS X Lion”     installer and choose the option to “Show Package Contents.”
Inside the Contents folder that     appears you will find a SharedSupport folder and inside the     SharedSupport folder you will find the “InstallESD.dmg.” This is     the Lion boot disc image we have all been waiting for.
Copy “InstallESD.dmg” to     another folder like the Desktop.
Launch Disk Utility and click the     burn button.
Select the copied “InstallESD.dmg” as the image to burn,     insert a standard sized 4.7 GB DVD, and wait for your new Lion Boot     Disc to come out toasty hot.
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Is MircoSoft Office 2008 compatible with Lion OS?

I have a Mac Mini and want to download an inexpensive MicroSoft 2008 software program, that I am told is more user friendly than the 2011 version. My question before I buy, is iwll it be compatible with teh Mac Mini and the new Lion OS?"

Microsoft Office 2008 has been replaced by Microsoft Office 2011.
"User friendly" is relative. Entourage in Office 2008 IMHO crashed a lot and many people reported data corruption. Entourage is replaced by Outlook 2011. It is closer to the Windows version of Outlook, although both are still not as feature rich as the Windows version of Outlook.
IMHO, get Office 2011. There are a few pieces of Office 2008 that do not work with Lion, although most people do not use those pieces. If you already had Office 2008, then I'd tell you to just install it. But since you're going to have to purchase, better to get Office 2011.

Does Microsoft office 2004 work with lion?

Does Microsoft Office 2004 work with the new Lion OS?

Ptit-Loup wrote:
Angry at Microsoft, and now angry at Apple...
Microsoft killed macros compatibility when upgrading from Excel 2004.
Apple kills OS compatibility with Office 2004 when upgrading to Lion.
I did not upgrade from Excel 2004, since I spent a lot of time and energy to develop a large number of functions using Excel macros.
I will not upgrade from Snow Leopard.
What else ?
I had the intention to change my 4-year-old 17" Macbook pro, not compatible with Lion, to a newer one. I had... There is no further reason to do that.
Apple, now loosing old supporters and customers ? Or am I getting too old ?
A 4 year old Macbook Pro should run Lion. Unless its a CoreDue and not a Core2Duo. Remember that PPC computers can not even run Snow Leopard. This was when Apple announced that support for PPC programs would be phased out. Office 2004 is almost 8 years old now. Twice as old as your computer you say needs to be replaced. I can't believe people rush in to install a new system without doing a little bit of research, and the dropping of Rosetta to run old PPC programs was well advertised if you read up on Lion, as was the introduction of Mission Control and Versions. I even read up about them, and I'm not a professional like some who come here. May pay to remember to research in future releases.
Good Luck

How to upgrade ms office not working with lion (20004)

what should I do, if after upgrading to lion my ms office is not working
is there any alternative working with Lion, what is not to expensive
Thank You for tips

Upgrade to Office 2011 (not free)
Install Open Office (free)

When i upgrade to Lion will my office 2008 work?

I want to upgrade my Mac to Lion and Apple support is telling me that my MS Office 2008 may not work and/or I need a patch from Microsoft. I then talk to Microsoft and they say there is not an issue with MS Office 2008 when upgrading to Lion. Who do I believe? Will all my data files and entourage data remain intact when I upgrade to Lion?

Office maintains a central datafile in your /Home/Documents/ folder. Each new version of Office simply imports that file. So all your Office data such as mail should remain intact after you upgrade. Here's how to make a bootable backup:
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Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
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Will "Word" 2008 work with LION?

"Open XML for Word" shows up as PPC,what does that mean for my version of Word, Version 12.3.0???? Thanks, Bill

Word 2008 is a universal application, meaning it will run on both PowerPC and Intel systems. OpenXML for Word is intended for Office 2004, Word 2008 being able to natively open the newer Word document format, so OpenXML being PowerPC-only will not be a factor.
How compatible Word 2008 will be with Lion, though, is unknown at this time. We'll have to wait for either official details from Microsoft or for Lion to be released so that people can test and report on compatibility.
Regards.

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I am having the same problem.
- iMac
27-inch, Mid 2011
Processor 2.7 GHz Intel Core i5
Memory 16 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB
Software OS X 10.8.1 (12B19)
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