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Lion and Microsoft Office for mac 2004

Avatar Thomas Maude
Hi everyone just upgraded to Lion and have lost my Office for mac 2004 ....by which I mean it says it is a power PC app that is no longer supported .....as it is a very important app can anyone suggest how I go about getting another one ..and has anyone else had the same problem.

Tom

Re: Lion and Microsoft Office for mac 2004

Avatar Euan Williams
Hi Thomas, were you unable to preserve your earlier setup by cloning a copy onto another drive or partition? That would be the cheapest solution, and would let you use Lion as well. The loss of Rosetta and PPc software were widely trumpeted as the inevitable consequence of moving on to Lion. It may be software-ageist, but progress can be cruel like that.

You could launch out through the Appstore into iWork, which includes Pages (word processor and low end publishing) Numbers (spread sheet with attitude) Keynote (as devised for, and used by, our Steve for Apple presentations).

Text Edit is compatible (at a less than total level) with Word.doc files, and both can be opened with the other, although the actual presentation on the page may not be entirely faithful.

Pages can import Word.doc (sort of), Numbers is compatible with Excel, although not for power users.

Apart from these, you might look at Neo-Office and Open Office. Try entering this into your Google slot: > neooffice openoffice compare < and see what you think. Make sure the references you follow are reasonably up to date. Both are open source.

The Home-Student edition of MS Office is around £110 from M'soft (offers available elsewhere) , and you can download a free trial to see if you like it from them.

and the inevitable rider: "other solutions are available".

Good luck and let us all know how you get on.

Re: Lion and Microsoft Office for mac 2004

Avatar Thomas Maude
Thanks Euan ...Yes I have cloned my earlier set up ( twice on two separate external drives ) one of which is an exact copy of the system just before I entered the Lion's den. I understand the options you have put forward ..but such is the frequency of use of the whole office suite I think that your Home Student one hundred and ten shekels option is probably what we will have to go for as my partner brings home lot's of word related docs as part of her work. Have you any tips as to meeting the criteria for a Home Student ?.

There are a few other apps I've noticed that have crosses on them as well but I can live with that as I hardly use them but the Office suite is a very important one and was quite a shock to see it crossed out ....apart from that the upgrade has gone well
Thanks for your advice
Tom

Re: Lion and Microsoft Office for mac 2004

Avatar Derek Wright
You can often get a copy of the product for sale on the Bay of E web site. A user may have used one or two of the reg numbers leaving one spare.
Spend some time seeing what is on offer, do not rush in and you may come across a legit bsrgain.

Do not forget that the 2008 version is Lion compatible and will meet your needs (as the 2004 version did)

Re: Lion and Microsoft Office for mac 2004

Avatar Euan Williams
Thomas, there are no "student" qualifying requirements for Home-Student version of MS Office. It's simply a marketing name for a group of software titles with varying qualitities. Check this official description:

The next step-up is the Home-Business edition.

Amazon currently sell it for a bit under £80, and there are many other prices out there. But please remember that MS Office is a delicious target for crooks and MS have a very heavy installer legitimacy check. eBay could be a great way to pick up an irresistible bargain which is no bargain at all. I got my copy of Office H-S for free with my MacBook a couple of years ago from John Lewis/Waitrose.'pirated"

Truth is that MS are pretty desperate to keep up their dwindling market share, and have been known to declare even legitimately bought copies of Windows as "Pirated".

You could make two partitions on your main drive and clone back your S-L clone so you have a start-up choice.

Re: Lion and Microsoft Office for mac 2004

Avatar Euan Williams
Whoops! John Lewis/Waitrose do NOT sell pirated software. Slip of the fingers onto the arrow keys, my fault and apologies.

Re: Lion and Microsoft Office for mac 2004

Avatar Thomas Maude
Thanks Derek and Euan for your advice ...I have gone for a student package and am downloading now ........

Safari has proved to be a little unstable since entering the lions den ,,,,two quite small niggles which would be interesting to here is anyone else has had problems with
1. setting the default opening page in the preferences to BBC news .....this opens only in a NEW window .....if Safari is closed then it reopens with the last page used on the last session .....and more alarmingly the last few time when I have opened it afresh it has loaded the last three windows from the last session .......I know I can reset etc but wondered if anyone else has had the same problem and if so if it is resolvable.
2. Where is the downloads window to be found and activated ? it used to pop up automatically when a download was activated but I can't find it now ......this maybe a ME error but would be nice to find it even if it lurking amongst the gnarled bones at the back of the den somewhere.

Tom

Re: Lion and Microsoft Office for mac 2004

Avatar Trevor Hewson
Re: 1: If you hold down the option key you will see that the Quit entry under the Safari menu becomes 'Quit and discard windows'. If you quit in this way then, the next time you launch Safari you should just get the one window with you selected home page.

Re: Lion and Microsoft Office for mac 2004

Avatar Trevor Hewson
Re:2: I have just remembered where I found the downloads window! It's that little downward arrow in the toolbar to the right of the search box. If you click on that, the download window appears. I think this typifies some of the problems with Lion - sometimes it works like a Mac, sometimes it tries to be an iPhone.

Re: Lion and Microsoft Office for mac 2004

Avatar Lionel Ogden
The Resume function where you return to where you were when you closed down an application, it works with several Apple apps not just Safari, is one of the new functions in Lion. It can be quite unnerving the first few times it happens. However as mentioned above it can be avoided.
 
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