I am trying to install MS Office 2004 on a Mac Book with OX Yosemite. It is looking for a patch. Any suggestions?
MacBook, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Trying to install MS Office 2004
Try the Microsoft's Office for Mac forum
As far as I recall it is impossible to run Office 2004 on a MacBook Air or any Mac running Yosemite. This is because Office 2004 was originally written for PowerPC based Macs and while Apple for a time provided a means for Intel based Macs to run old PowerPC software via a module called Rosetta this was discontinued many years ago when OS X 10.7 (Lion) was introduced. OS X 10.6.8 was the last version to include Rosetta.
The oldest version of Office for Mac you can run under Yosemite would be Office 2008, the current version is Office 2011, and very soon Office 2016 will be released. (Office 2016 is already available to Office365 subscribers.)
Note: A brand new MacBook Air cannot run 10.6.8 before you ask.
Your brand new MacBook Air will have come with free included copies of Apple's Pages, Numbers, and Keynote applications which respectively are Apple's equivalents to MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint. Apple's programs can read and write to the same file formats i.e. .doc or .docx, .xls or .xlsx, etc.
Thank you for taking the time to explain the issue.
I do use the 3 mentioned Apple provided software, but it does not give me all the functionality that one gets with actual MS Office product.
Sounds like I may have spend some money and purchase at least MS Office 2008 in order to make it work with Yosemite.
Thanks again for your help!
You can't buy Office 2008 anymore nor would you want to as while it would work it is very old as well. Either wait a little longer and get Office 2016 or subscribe to Office365. Subscribing to Office365 gets you free upgrades as well.
See http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/en_US/cat/Office-for-Mac/categoryID.69 404500
You may also want to investigate Libre Office, a free Office suite that is very similar to MS Office 2004. All files are compatible and most functions are identical to MS Office. You can download it from this link. Libreoffice.org
ndn707 wrote:
I am trying to install MS Office 2004 on a Mac Book with OX Yosemite. It is looking for a patch. Any suggestions?
Although you can get Office 2004 to work in Yosemite, using virtualization of Snow Leopard, I would not recommend it since, as noted above there are both Microsoft updated products available and LibreOffice.
Just for the record, I initially did have to run Excel 2004 in Lion for quite some time (using Snow Leopard installed into Parallels) due to a Legacy spreadsheet that I created in 1993 that would become corrupt when I attempted to update it in Excel 2011. After using the workaround suggested for quite some time (I need access to this spreadsheet on a weekly basis), I finally had it rewritten from scratch in Excel 2011.
How to install MS Office 2004 on a brand new mac book air?
