![]() I have heard the Mac community is very helpful. I currently have it running on one of the old G3s I am using to convert years of old ClarisWorks, iWorks and MS Word 3&4 documents to PDFs. I also like the consistancy it offers across all the computers platforms in the network. I have been using it on all my personal computer for years, since the roll out of MSOffice XP. I don't want to open that office politics can of worms. If I install a new version of Office on one, all the staff will want the "shiny new thing" someone else has. That are far more critical to the long term structure and usiblity of the network. Upgrading Office 2011 isn't where I want to spend my IT budget right now, I have a lot of server side upgrades/projects in the works. If it is an issue with the Office version and not the OS I would rather scrap Office. I tend to be very conservitive when it comes upgrade vs clean install of OSs. Pretty sure I don't want to do the downgrade and then upgrade option. So, another option for you is to buy Office 2011 for Mac, may be easier than swapping OSs back and forth. I never liked the Apple Mail application, although most people who use it. I used Office 2004 prior to my Lion upgrade, so I bought Office 2011 home and business and it works very well, I really like Outlook as an email client, much better than Entourage. The only question in my mind is whether or not you can downgrade to an older OS without wiping out your files, so be sure to back everything up in the event that you have to reformat the drive to install Snow Leopard. If the problem lies with the incompatibility of the installer with Lion, that should cure the problem. ![]() Once it is properly installed and working, then do a system upgrade to Lion. Install Snow Leopard on the HD and then re-install Office 2008. Office 2008 and the installer are compatible with Snow Leopard. You will need a copy of Snow Leopard to do this, and since your computers came with Lion pre-installed you will have to get a copy of Snow Leopard. You might try this, but it will require a lot of time and effort. To KristinMT, Although Office 2008 is compatible with Lion, the installer is not. I'm about ready to chalk this one up to user error, unless someone can shed some light on this. ![]() I can't find any reports of this same situation, and I can't reproduce the error as reported to me. ![]() So I accept that there might be a few blind spots in my knowledge base. I have 14 yr of support experince with MS OSs and 5 yrs with Linux, this is my first job where OS X is the dominate OS. I know that he is not coming close to that kind of stress on the resources. I have even gone to running multiple instances of large word and excel documents at the same time on this machine (1 gb+ active in memory) and can't get Office to crash. He is the only one that seems to have issues with it. It happens to my misfortune as the resident IT tech, the majority partner (The Big Boss) uses the crashy one as well as myself and other staff members. We use Microsoft Office 2008 on all our older mac (9 G5 iMacs running Leapord) of the two new Lion Macs that I installed MS Office 08 on, one works wonderfully and the second has been reported to have problems with random crashing of MS Office. Our firm recently purchased two new iMacs with Lion preinstalled. ![]()
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