Tiger/Office 2004/Office 2008

[GCP]

I have the Student and Teacher version of Office 2004 and have recently upgraded my system to Tiger (10.4.11) on a G4 with a pre-Intel processor. This circumstance prompts several questions regarding both Office 2004 and 2008:

1. If I upgrade will 2008 work with such an old processor?

2. Since upgrading the system animations in 2004 PowerPoint have become jerky. Is there a way to fix this?

3. Since upgrading from 10.2.X fonts that were available in Office no longer are. What gives?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I have the Student and Teacher version of Office 2004 and have recently
upgraded my system to Tiger (10.4.11) on a G4 with a pre-Intel processor.
This circumstance prompts several questions regarding both Office 2004 and
2008:<br>

1. If I upgrade will 2008 work with such an old processor?<br>

Not enough info - see

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/Office2008/system-requirements.mspx

2. Since upgrading the system animations in 2004 PowerPoint have become
jerky. Is there a way to fix this?<br>

Hard to tell without knowing what processor speed, other hardware, file
size, type of objects, etc. etc.

3. Since upgrading from 10.2.X fonts that were available in Office no longer
are. What gives?<br>

What fonts? Were they system fonts? Fonts installed by Office? If not,
did you save them before installing Tiger?

 

[Diane Ross]

I have the Student and Teacher version of Office 2004 and have recently
upgraded my system to Tiger (10.4.11) on a G4 with a pre-Intel processor. This
circumstance prompts several questions regarding both Office 2004 and 2008:

1. If I upgrade will 2008 work with such an old processor?

I would say Yes to Tiger but you would need to check for Leopard. I'm on a
G4 and barely made it into the Leopard install requirements.

G4 Dual 1.42 GHZ, Memory 2GB, Mac OS X 10.5.1

2. Since upgrading the system animations in 2004 PowerPoint have become jerky.
Is there a way to fix this?

Get more RAM.

3. Since upgrading from 10.2.X fonts that were available in Office no longer
are. What gives?

Each upgrade provides new fonts. They are usually put in a disabled folder.
You can add those back.

Office 2008 uses a different method for fonts and many fonts are new
versions. Office 2008 will install fonts to the /Library/Fonts/Microsoft
folder. By being at the root, then all users on the machine have access to
them and you don't get Office 2008 putting multiple copies on the machine
for each user.

The installer will scour /Library/Fonts/ and ~/Library/Fonts/ for fonts with
the same name and move them to /Library/Disabled Fonts/ or
~/Library/Disabled Fonts/ depending on where they were found.

Installing Office for Mac 2008 (The Entourage Help Blog)
<http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2008/01/installing_office_for_mac_2008.html>