Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
*** is going on?
Something to keep in mind with Office 2008. The one truly dumb thing MS did in that version was that the installer is a PPC app. Everything else can run on an Intel Mac, but not the installer. So it's not possible to install Office 2008 under Lion since Rosetta is gone.
Is there any reason Apple should have to tell you what apps don't work with their operating system? If you needed it that badly, you should have done the research yourself - that's not Apple's job, since they don't make Microsoft Office.
And because you seem to not know how to Google things on your own, lookie! Some other users have done all the research for you! Now you don't have to do anything for yourself!
There are at least three free "office" suites that mimic Microsoft Office. A Web search for "free Mac office" (without the quotes) will show two of those, but LibreOffice must be further down the list of hits. Just stay away from pirate sites and any Microsoft sites. For obvious reasons, Microsoft isn't going to give you a free copy of Office.
By the way, the fact that Office X and 2004 won't work under Lion was publicized widely, just not by Apple.
2004 - 2011
You had 7 years, and you can still use it (with a little work)
Upgrade to 2011 or bite the other bullet, progress is sometimes erratic.
Why would anyone keep Office 2004 when there are free better alternatives out there? http://www.libreoffice.org/ for example...
Shiny icon? 🙂
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Dirtylobster wrote:
Why would anyone keep Office 2004 when there are free better alternatives out there? http://www.libreoffice.org/ for example...
Shiny icon? 🙂
Did you bother to read my post before you replied?
Dirtylobster wrote:
Why would anyone keep Office 2004 when there are free better alternatives out there?
Perhaps because those alternatives don't perfectly copy the functionality of Office 2004? I've been using NeoOffice for a while and am fairly happy with it. It didn't do a good job of importing into a spreadsheet a file from a roster on a Web site that Excel opened perfectly until I found a special setting. It also can't deal with Word's document watermarks. On the other hand, NeoOffice can open files in Microsoft Works word processing format, something that pretty much no other software I've ever tried was able to do.
Not only that, I just discovered that Lion will not support even the very latest version of HyperCard either! Or ClarisWorks! Not even Microsoft MultiPlan or Aldus Pagemaker! Why was I not informed about any of these unforgivable lapses!
Didn't MS itself end support for Office 2004 back in the fall of 09? I don't think it's realistic to imagine that anyone at Apple would care about it not working for someone, or possible lost sales because someone wants to stick with it.
Office 2011 works fine
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A.L.F. wrote:
Not only that, I just discovered that Lion will not support even the very latest version of HyperCard either! Or ClarisWorks! Not even Microsoft MultiPlan or Aldus Pagemaker! Why was I not informed about any of these unforgivable lapses!
I take it you didn't bother to check, or ask.
If this is important to you then restore your backup, I assume you bothered to backup.
Just installed Lion and now Outlook 2011 is not working. Press send and receive and I just get the rotating beach ball. Powerpoint, Word, and Excel took a long time to start up however they work. 😟 Berg
Did you import a pst file into Outlook or is it all new.?
Csound1. I did a power reset, and then ran software update. Re opened Outlook (prevously installed before Lion) and though the first time it took a while to open and download new email; it seems to be running OK now. 🙂 Berg
🙂
My experience is that Outlook will continue to improve for the first few start/stop cycles.
My personal feelings are that it eventually improves all the way up to mediocre (ahem) but the rest of that suite is superb.
Lion will not support Mac Office. It was not disclosed.
