Office 2004 will keep you on your old PowerPC.įor example, if you don't need Exchange you can get Office 2008 H&S very reasonably from Amazon with free shipping. I'm doubtful that Office 2008 will ever be upgradef for autosave and versions, but Office 2011 will be upgraded for these new Lion features. Office 2008 & 2011 will both work on Lion. This link compares versions, costs and number of installs.Ĭonsider moving to Office 2008 H&S includes Entourage but with no Exchange support or Office 2011 H&S (does not contain Outlook) or 2011 Business that does contain Outlook. Right now you can still get Office 2008 if cost is an issue. If their computer dies they will be forced to upgrade. This applies to the following editions: Professional, Standard, Student and Teacher. Office 2004 is packed with the tools to help Mac users work more. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac follows the Fixed Lifecycle Policy. I suggest that you start making plans to upgrade. Office 2004 offers a new level of productivity never seen before on the Mac platform, and now users can try it free for 30 days before they buy it, said Tim McDonough, director of marketing and business development for the Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) at Microsoft. Occasionally a message stating The application Microsoft Excel quite unexpectedly appears, but up until now, if I press Relaunch, it returns. The software was originally written for PowerPC Macs, so Macs with Intel. Microsoft Office 2004 on Mac 10.5.8 I live in Japan and have been using Excel 2004 for years. It is equivalent to Office 2003 for Windows. There will be no additional updates after January 10. Office 2004 for Mac is a version of Microsoft Office developed for Mac OS X.

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