is mountain lion compatible with microsoft office 2004 for mac

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OS X Lion and Mountain Lion aren't compatible with PowerPC applications. Unfortunately, Office 2004 is a PowerPC application, so you can't use it in OS X Mountain Lion.

Instead, you have other applications you can use:

1. Office 2011 > http://www.microsoft.com/mac

2. iWork '09, in the App Store.

3. LibreOffice, completely free > http://www.libreoffice.org

Try the one you want and keep the application you prefer. Also, see that all the applications supports Office files, so you can use your documents created with Office with them

Office 2004 Applications Won't Work in Lion or Mountain Lion

You must have Office 2004 which is a PPC-only suite and will not work in Lion. You need to upgrade to Office 2011 - Mactopia - or you can try the freeware suite, Libre Office, that is functionally similar to Office 2007 for Windows except it works on Lion.

You may want to consider as well:

These two suites are similar to Libre Office but not as current or as well-supported:

NeoOffice

Open Office

And, then there is Apple's iWork suite:

Pages - word processing and layout

Keynote - presentation

Numbers - spreadsheet

Each can open and save Office compatible files. They may be purchased separately via the Mac App Store for $19.99 each.

(Access to the Mac App Store requires Snow Leopard 10.6.6 or higher and an Apple ID.)

If you have other applications you have questions about, you can check here:

Application Compatibility

1mart wrote:

is mountain lion compatible with microsoft office 2004 for mac?

If you are unable or unwilling to update to Office 2008 or 2011, you can install Snow Leopard Server (with Rosetta) into Parallels or VMWare Fusion and continue to use Office 2004 (and most other PowerPC applications) concurrently with Lion or Mt. Lion:

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Snow Leopard Server is now available from the Apple Store for $19.99 + sales tax & shipping: 1.800.MYAPPLE (1.800.692.7753). Apple Part Number: MC588Z/A