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New to Mac, trying to install Office 2008 for Mac

mtalsma

mtalsma

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Hello All,

I am brand new today to Mac. I'm a PC user of 15 + years. I purchased a brand new imac today, 2.66 ghz, 4 gigs of ram, etc. I purchased a copy of MS Office 2008 along with it as I need it for school. The computer came with an upgrade to Snow Leopard so I installed that first, had no issues. I am now trying to install my copy of Office and it keeps spitting out the CD. I put in a music cd and it played fine. Please help??!!
 
Test the Office disc with another Mac (if you have access to one). If it does the same thing you'll need to request a replacement disk from Microsoft. I doubt there's anything wrong with the drive if it was able to read the Snow Leopard disc.
 
Congrats on the mac.
Here's your issue. You installed SL before Office, yes?
Office is designed for PowerPC macs, but luckily, Apple designed a solution for that, called Rosetta, that translates the PowerPC Binaries to Intel Binaries. This was a standard install on 10.4, Tiger, 10.5, Leopard, and in order to get down up to 7.0 GB HD savings on SL, they decided to make Rosetta an optional install.

What you have to do is pop your SL disk back into the mac. Double click optional installs. You want the optional installs mpkg. Run it. It should be pretty self explanatory from there... make sure Rosetta is checked on the appropriate screen. When all is said and done, quit the installer and try installing MS Office again. If that doesn't work, tell us what happened and we'll do what we can to get your new mac working.
 
dandaman2 said:
Congrats on the mac.
Here's your issue. You installed SL before Office, yes?
Office is designed for PowerPC macs, but luckily, Apple designed a solution for that, called Rosetta, that translates the PowerPC Binaries to Intel Binaries. This was a standard install on 10.4, Tiger, 10.5, Leopard, and in order to get down up to 7.0 GB HD savings on SL, they decided to make Rosetta an optional install.

What you have to do is pop your SL disk back into the mac. Double click optional installs. You want the optional installs mpkg. Run it. It should be pretty self explanatory from there... make sure Rosetta is checked on the appropriate screen. When all is said and done, quit the installer and try installing MS Office again. If that doesn't work, tell us what happened and we'll do what we can to get your new mac working.
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Office 2008 is a Universal app
 
I also had to install Rosetta to install Office 2008. So yes, try that.

Also, looking at the sizes, i remember Rosetta only being 1.9MB, surly Apple should have made this part of the basic install.

:apple: KrayzieKray :apple:
 
Quite true...Now I had Office 2008 already installed and after installing SL when I opened Word...it indicated I needed to download Rosetta. By the way I only use IWork once I found its beauty. The only reason I called up MSWord was to see if if SL had disabled it.
 
Nermal said:
It's not a size issue, it's a "try to force developers to compile for Intel" issue.
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Fair point. :)

But since they offered Rosetta as a separate install, i don't see how they are forcing developers to compile for Intel. Maybe it's just me, but it just doesn't make much sense. :confused:

:apple: KrayzieKray :apple:
 
Rosetta not needed! :)

You don't need Rosetta to RUN Office 08, only to INSTALL it!

It seems like a waste to install it just for that but I understand that would be the easier route to go.....Here's a way to install Office 08 without installing Rosetta if you want your machine to stay as clean as possible.....

To install Microsoft Office 2008 without Rosetta, try the following:

1. Download the following Office updates (you will need them later):

a. Download Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 1 (12.1.0) (180 MB)
b. Download Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac Service Pack 2 (12.2.0) (297 MB)
c. Download Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.2.1 Update (24 MB)

2. Install Microsoft Office 2008 using Terminal (command line), enter the following command and your password when prompted:

Code:

sudo installer -package /Volumes/Office\ 2008/Office\ Installer.mpkg -target /

Where /Volumes/Office\ 2008/Office\ Installer.mpkg is the path to your Office 2008 installation package. If you're not sure what the path is as it may differ from the above example, this will complete it for you:

Enter: sudo installer -package<space>, then drag Office Installer.mpkg from your Office 2008 CD or Disk Image to the Terminal window, and then type: -target /

3. After the installation has completed, close Terminal and install the Office Updates that you downloaded in step 1 as normal and in order, a, b, c.
 
I don't think I would consider it a waste, considering the HD space any new mac's going to have nowadays and the amount of useful software out there that might not be intel ready (out of development or something to that extent), albeit most of it wouldn't be sl compatible anyway. It's not that big, so you might as wel throw it on just in case.
 
Let me get this straight, I already have MS Office 2008 installed. I just got my SL upgrade disc today and am thinking about installing it, If my MS Office 2008 is already installed and i just go through the SL upgrade I will have no problems??
 
@ Joemero: If it's any consolation I had Office 2008 on my MacBook Pro before upgrading to 10.6 and it still works after the upgrade. You may want to consider running Microsoft AutoUpdate before or after the 10.6 installation to make sure you have the latest version installed to avoid any possible complications. Also run Font Book in /Applications after installation to have it resolve any duplicate fonts you have installed on the system.
 
packhater said:
You don't need Rosetta to RUN Office 08, only to INSTALL it!

It seems like a waste to install it just for that but I understand that would be the easier route to go.....Here's a way to install Office 08 without installing Rosetta if you want your machine to stay as clean as possible.....
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Thank you for the tip!!!!!!

Is there any way to know what's being installed and manage it?
I basically only want some stuff, like word, but not entourage/powerpoint, etc...

also I'm really worried about bloatware with office.
*sigh* I wish someone would just post the version of the installer that doesn't require rosetta, and then I could create my own hybrid disk :)
 
Joemero said:
Let me get this straight, I already have MS Office 2008 installed. I just got my SL upgrade disc today and am thinking about installing it, If my MS Office 2008 is already installed and i just go through the SL upgrade I will have no problems??
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This is what I did and it worked fine for me. I did not need to install Rosetta
 
It did not work like that for me, and I already had mso installed, but whatever. I'm pretty sure you can customize the install with the installer at some point. but if you only want word, why drop ca$h on the whole mpkg? get something good and free like Open Office, which also has a quality spreadsheet app.
 
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