How do I Install Office:mac 2004 Upgrade on new iMac

[Ron_in_PG]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I have Office:mac Upgrade Professional Edition installed on my G3 running OS 10.4.11 and am trying to install the program on my new iMac with Intel Duo processors. I am unable to transfer the application over from the G3 because I don't have enough access privileges. (The system (both macs) ran for 13 hours supposedly transferring files, after which it managed to transfer 1 application. All files that were transferred deny me access privileges.) They're my machines - I am the only user of both machines. I have Word 6, Office Mac:2001 (Upgrade) and my latest purchase of Office 2004.

How do I install this 2004 version of Office on my iMac?

Thanks!

 

[Diane Ross]

How do I install this 2004 version of Office on my iMac?

Install from the CD. It will install the necessary files like fonts,
Spotlight importers etc. Be sure to upgrade. There is an 11.5.0 combo
updater. After that there is one small 11.5.1 updater.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/mactopia_dl.html>

You can copy over your Microsoft User Data folder. If you have permissions
problems. Let Entourage create a new Microsoft User Data folder and check
the permissions on it with the one you dragged over. Set permissions
correctly on your old files and you should be good to go.

 

[Ron]

Install from the CD. It will install the necessary files like fonts,
Spotlight importers etc. Be sure to upgrade. There is an 11.5.0 combo
updater. After that there is one small 11.5.1 updater.

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/mactopia_dl.html>

You can copy over your Microsoft User Data folder. If you have permissions
problems. Let Entourage create a new Microsoft User Data folder and check
the permissions on it with the one you dragged over. Set permissions
correctly on your old files and you should be good to go.

Thank you Diane. I will give that a shot. When using the 2004 Upgrade
Install, Office checks for existing versions of office on the system.
In this case it would not find one. Should I drag it over from the
other computer (the G3) first?

Thanks!

 

[Diane Ross]

Thank you Diane. I will give that a shot. When using the 2004 Upgrade
Install, Office checks for existing versions of office on the system.
In this case it would not find one. Should I drag it over from the
other computer (the G3) first?

If you have the pre-2004 CD, just launch it and point to it when it asks for
the previous version. The 2004 install is looking not for your installed
2004, but for Office X or 2001 or any older version.

If you don't need Exchange, when you upgrade to Office 2008 get the Home &
Student version for less than $130. No more bothering with finding the old
versions.

Amazon with free shipping for Home & Student version - $129.99

<http://tinyurl.com/4ydu2u>

 

[Guest]

Thanks Diane. IT WORKED REAL SLICK!

For anyone that might be reading this the trick is to:
1) Install from the new UPGRADE CD
2) Follow the Instructions
3) When instructed insert the original CD (E.g. Office:mac Upgrade 2001)
4) Browse to the Microsoft Office FOLDER on the original 'CD' (POINTING TO THE 'CD' does not work)
5) Install the updates (which in my case were fully automatic).

Thank you for making this one of the easiest installs I've ever experienced with Microsoft Office - going back all the way back to Word v4.0.

 

[Diane Ross]

Thanks for the exact instructions. Glad you are happy. Next step be sure you
have a good backup strategy. It is not advised to let Time Machine backup
Entourage. If Entourage is open and being written to during a backup the
copy can be corrupt. Since Time Machine does this hourly, Entourage will
most likely be in use when backed up. See these alternatives.

Entourage and Time-Machine-like backup (creates chronological backup of
Identity can be used by both Tiger and Leopard allowing you to roll back to
previous dated backups.

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/01/entourage_and_time_machine.html>

Alternative method to use Entourage and Time Machine (does a once a day or
whatever time period you select) This quits Entourage and the Microsoft
Database daemon allowing for once a day backup into Time Machine.

<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/01/alternative_method_to_use_entourage_
and_time_machine.html>