Microsoft Office 2003

If you are referring to Microsoft Office 2004 for the Mac platform then it should run fine. If you are referring to Office 2003 for Windows then you are out of luck.

Please post any simliar questions in the usage forum. This question has nothing to do with the MacBook display.

If its the Mac version of Office then it will run under rosetta - no problems, and Microsoft mac manager Roz Ho said that Office works fine under this - which is why an intel Universal is just some time off, so at the moment this is your only option anyhow.

Macbook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.3) 2.16 mhz 2 gig ram....need I say any more?

I have Office X and Office 2004 in a desk drawer. I have been running Office X on my G4, and 2004 is still in the shrinkwrap.

Has anyone had any experience with one running better than the other under Rosetta? I never had a problem with X and never installed the newer version.

I have Student/Teacher 2004, and I've been experiencing some lock ups & quirks. Just last night I did 8 hours worth of graphs and charts (and FAITHFULLY clicked SAVE every 20 - 30 minutes), and Excel closed abruptly with no indicators. When I restarted Excel, it regressed back to the state prior to any changes, before the 8 hours of input. It is the ONLY spreadsheet I have on my system, and the only file I have opened in Excel since I installed it.

I searched all files that had been written or modded in the last 24 hours, and there was no temp file or anything written when Excel closed abruptly. In essence, eight hours worth of work completely vanished without a trace and I missed a crucial deadline. And I have years of work experience as a systems analyst - I do know how to adequately research the problem. I'm just sitting down to restart the process. This time I'll also save redundantly to a mem stick - though that shouldn't be necessary.

I sure hope that the Universal versions of the more popular apps cet compiled soon.

There's no office 2003 for mac. Only Office X and 2004. Office 2003 is for Windows only. X and 2004 are very similar, but 2004's product line was updated and they added some new features. Though both perform similarly under Rosetta, which for me is slow compared to native apps, but not really slower than it ran on my PB 1.25 GHz.

People having issues with Office should try to repair disk permissions, and insure that they've applied all patches available for download via office update.

Nick

 MacBook Pro 15.4" Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1.83GHz Core Duo, 2GB RAM, 100GB @ 7200RPM

But the disk I have says "Microsoft Office: mac Student nd Teacher Edition" And it says copyright 1983-2003. Not 2004. So it has to be a 2003 version. Maybe regular was not made 2003 but student version obviously was.

Thanks,
ivnj

Actually Kavan they're correct.

The student teacher edition is not a separate build of Microsoft Office, it is just marketed differently, costs less and has some bits taken out.

Microsoft released Office X when OS X was released and then Office 2004. During the interim period they were selling Office X and it would have the copyright dates for the year the disc was made ie 2003. If you had an Office X disc from 2002 it would say 2002.

You don't have to take my word for it. You can look at the Microsoft Mac site here. You will see there was no Office 2003 for the mac, and if there had been, Microsoft would have called it Office 2003 for Mac, as they did for Office 2004.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/otherproducts/otherproducts.aspx?pid=otherproducts

Anyway, should be fine under Rosetta. Good luck.

Hi all, beg yer pardon and any help appreciated
I installed automatic software upgrade to OS 10.4.7. on MacBook Pro (Intel) w/ 2Gb ram.

MS Office (X, I believe) stopped working. Word, Excel and Powerpoint all now return the same error message: ~unable to find shared libraries; the application may have been moved; please return the application to the directory in which it was installed or reinstall the application~.

It hasn't been moved. I do not have the install disks. At University.

Will also post to OSX forum, but this thread looked like it had people who had experience in this domain. Pardon my barging in.

Ta

George

I was having the same problem as you (still am). I downloaded the security update (etc) from MS - just released. Anyway, no fix. What I discovered though is that if I double-click on an office file already created, the program will open and open that file. Then you can work in it like normal. All of the programs crash on opening though, if you just double-click their icons.

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Eric

Uh, no not 2004. 2003. A 2003 version ws made. Student version. I have one and it works great with 10.2.8. Haven't tried it on 10.3 since upgrading though.

Thanks,
ivnj