MS Office for Mac not working on OSX Lion?

tylor12321 wrote:

I have MS office 2011 and it's not working for me with os x lion. Can you help me?

Sorry Tylor, I have not upgraded to Lion and I'm still running office '08.

ProMaxed wrote:

If 2008 works, I'd wait on upgrading to 2011 as it is not fully 64-bit yet parts of it are but not completely. I think that the next office release will be 100% coco and fully 64-bit.

and you will be waiting exactly how many years for that next release? Office 2011 is only a few months old. Go for it now.

KCChops75 wrote:

I have a office 2004. will that work with lion?

No. Office Mac 2004 is obsolete. Before you upgrade to Lion I strongely suggest you either upgrade to Office Mac 2011, or transition your documents and email to iWork and Apple Mail, Calendar, Address Book.

igmackenzie wrote:

Your Office 2008 will still work fine in Lion. It is versions prior to that which will not run.

I think it is important to point out that Office Mac 2008 must already be installed and all updates applied before you upgrade to Lion. You will not be able to install Office Mac 2008 to a clean install of Lion because the installer is PPC. With all the latest Office updates applied the apps are Intel-compatible.

igmackenzie wrote:

and you will be waiting exactly how many years for that next release? Office 2011 is only a few months old. Go for it now.

Yeah, it could be quite a while. I just looked and the price is not too bad, $150. I don't use it for anything critical though, letters, a few xcel files for personal use so it's no big deal for me to wait.

ProMaxed wrote:

Yeah, it could be quite a while. I just looked and the price is not too bad, $150. I don't use it for anything critical though, letters, a few xcel files for personal use so it's no big deal for me to wait.

If that's the case you might want to consider transitioning to Apple's iWork suite. It sounds like it might be perfect for you.

Occasionally, I have to send office files to clients that are on win. platform. And, I do program some excel sheets for bus. and personal use. But thanks for the suggestion 🙂

Why I ask? IMO, Office 2011 is vastly superior to iWork09. Numbers just doesn't have anything like the same power as Excel. Most of the world uses MS Office, and iWork is poor for Office compatibility. Functions in Excel are poorly supported, and the formatting of imported Word douments is also poor.

In adddition, iWork09 is long ovedue for an upgrade, whereas Office 2011 is pretty current.

Finally, there is hardly any cost difference. In the UK, Office 2011 (version with Excel, Word and Powerpoint) is available for £58 from Amazon, and Pages, Numbers and Keynote cost £42 from MAS.

Not much difference. In my opinion (I stress), it's a no-brainer.

ProMaxed wrote:

Occasionally, I have to send office files to clients that are on win. platform. And, I do program some excel sheets for bus. and personal use. But thanks for the suggestion 🙂

Pages, Numbers and Keynote will all export Office-compatible files. And if you're not creating really complex documents with tables and macros, etc., then it might still be worth checking out for you.

All I'm saying is that if you don't need Office Mac for complete compatibility, something else might work for you. I've been MS-free on my early-2011 15" MBP since I bought it in March and have not needed it. Some people do need Office Mac, and for them I do suggest they purchase it.

They do not export docx, xlsx or pptx files at all which is a real pain.

For the reasons I mentioned above, I cannot see why anyone would buy iWork09 over Office 2011. If there was a huge price difference then yes, but there isn't.

Just my opinion.

I do see your point. You need Office for Mac for complete compatibility. My point is not everyone needs Office for Mac and they have other options. For you, it's not an option, and that's fine. However, for ProMaxed, iWork might be an option and since he is in the U.S. the cost savings will be significant.

FYI - both newegg and Amazon have Office 2011 for Mac on sale for $114.99 right now.

don't buy it from Apple - go to Amazan or newegg $114.99

I have purchased and installed MAC OS X Lion. At the time of installation, MS Office Excel 2011 was not installed on my MAC, after the upgrade is complete I could not reinstall EXCEL. It says check the compatibility of your software. It seems the software should be installed at the time of upgrade.

That is not the case in general. Office 2011 should install perfectly on Lion. Something specific to you, I think.