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Microsoft Office 2004

Microsoft Office 2004 is an office suite including the text processor Word, the spreadsheet application Excel, the presentation software PowerPoint and the mail client Entourage. It is often also referred to as Office:mac 2004.

There are three different editions available: 1) the Standard Edition was available for $399 USD (upgrade: $239 USD), 2) the Professional Edition additionally included Virtual PC 7 with Windows XP Professional for a price of $499 USD (upgrade: $329 USD), 3) the Student and Teacher Edition for $149 USD (no upgrade and not upgradable) and 4) the Trial Edition for free.

The last mentioned Trial Edition is titled Test Drive and can be used free of charge for a period of 30 days. It is like the Standard Edition but cannot be updated or activated. In Microsoft's own words: The Microsoft® Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive includes essential tools that can help you transform the way you create, share, and manage ideas and information using all four Office 2004 for Mac programs: Word, Excel, PowerPoint®, and Entourage®. After you install the Test Drive, you can use it for 30 days. It includes almost all the features found in Office 2004.

Abandonware

Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 was released 11 May 2004. As of 10 January 2012 Office:mac 2004 is no longer supported by Microsoft. Office:mac 2004 was the last PowerPC-only office suite from Microsoft: it requires Mac OS X 10.2.8 "Jaguar" or later and does run on Intel Macs through Rosetta, which was included in Mac OS X 10.4/Intel through Mac OS X 10.6, all of which are no longer supported by Apple. Even so, Office 2004 is only two years out of support.
Also keep in mind that the Test Drive demo version and updates can still be obtained from Microsoft directly.

Professional Edition

Not yet.

Standard Edition

Not yet.

Student and Teacher Edition

This edition is like the Standard Edition, but is not available as an upgrade. It also cannot be upgraded to a newer version of Office:mac, but it contains three product keys instead of just one in the Standard Edition.

Trial Edition

Office:mac 2004 Test Drive can still be downloaded from Microsoft.

Available languages are English (US), German, French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish. The Test Drive version is not available in the Dutch language.

There was an update available to fix the trial period, TA23775, but the link it refers to is no longer valid.

Test Drive limitations

1. Printing is not available.
2. The Office Setup Assistant is not available for installing the Office 2004 Test Drive. To install the Office 2004 Test Drive, drag the Microsoft Office 2004 folder to your Applications folder.
3. The Microsoft End-User License Agreement (EULA) is not available in the Office Setup Assistant. You can view the EULA only when you first launch the Office Test Drive.
4. Only the Dots and Elegant templates for creating newsletters, brochures, menus, and catalogs using a wizard are available.
5. Only a limited set of templates for each Group listed in the Project Gallery is available.
6. Proofing tools are available only for English, French, and Japanese languages.
7. The Microsoft Office 2004/Additional Tools folder has been removed for the Office 2004 Test Drive.
8. The Remove Office folder is now located in the Microsoft Office 2004 folder on your hard disk.
   MSN Messenger for Mac is not available in the Office 2004 Test Drive. You can download the most recent version of MSN Messenger from the Microsoft Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/.
9. All messages that you send by using Entourage will include the following text: "Sent using the Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Test Drive."
10. While you are using Entourage, copies of messages that you receive from a POP mail account are stored on the server.
11. Excel and Word documents display an Office 2004 for Mac Test Drive watermark in the background. During a PowerPoint slide show, the slide background displays a PowerPoint 2004 Test Drive watermark. These watermarks are not saved in the file and will not print in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac.

Installation

For the Trial Edition, the compessed .bin archive needs to be unpacked first.
For all versions, mount the disk image and simply drag and drop the Microsoft Office 2004 folder into your Application folder.
Alternatively the included installer can be used (.pkg or .mpkg).

Updates

As with Microsoft always, the products itself as well as all updates are language dependent: if you have a French version you need the French update.

http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads

The last updates fixed security issues only. While it is highly recommended to install them, be aware that a lot of new security issues were found after the last update was released and support stopped.

IT IS THEREFORE HIGHLY RECOMMENDED to not open files (like Word documents or PowerPoint presentations) from unknown sources: this is most likely everything you retrieve from the Internet.
BE PREPARED that malware may affect your PowerPC system if you don't take this seriously! (Yes, even PowerPC based Macs are vulnerable! Take your outdated Java installation for example: Java is platform independent!)

Compatibility

Office:mac 2004 cannot open or save OpenXML format files (like .docx, .pptx and such). But there is a free converter available from Microsoft that converts these files on PowerPC-based Macs so that Office:mac v.X and 2004 can be used to edit the contents of such files.

The Open XML File Format Converter runs on Mac OS X 10.4.9 or higher and produces converted files that require Office v.X 10.1.9 or Office 2004 11.4.0 or higher.

Compatibility
Architecture: PPC

CPU: Apple Macintosh computer with PowerPC G3 or better PowerPC processor
OS: Mac OS X 10.2.8 or later
RAM: 256 MB of memory or more
HDD: 450 MB free disk space to install Office:mac 2004 Test Drive
Display: a monitor that runs a resolution of 1024x768 or higher and displays thousands of colours.

Note: Intel-Macs that run Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger", 10.5 "Leopard" or 10.6 "Snow Leopard" are capable of running PowerPC G3 applications through the included Rosetta emulation layer.

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