I want to install Microsoft Office 2001 on a Mac OS X whose version is 10.6.8.
There is a folder and it has folders named Clipart, Office, Read Me, RESOURCE.FRK, Shared Applications and Templates. It also has Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Entourage, these are Unix Executable Files.
I'd like to know how I can install Office 2001 on this machine. I don't have any prior Mac OS experience. Thanks.
MacOS – Unable to install Microsoft Office 2001 on Mac OS X
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Best Answer
Mac OS X 10.6 and the hardware it runs on is too new to run Office 2001.
Office 2001 required Mac OS 8, 9 or Classic. To run Classic under OS X, you need a Power PC based Mac, and up to Mac OS X version 10.4. Your options:
run Office 2001 in SheepShaver which emulates Mac OS 9 on a current Mac. This is a bit tricky to setup. You need a copy of OS 9, a copy of a suitable Macintosh ROM. Once setup SheepShaver should work well for Office 2001. SheepShaver Wrapper provides good instructions and a wrapper tool to make it easier to setup.
A number of apps can read an write Office documents. Apple's Pages, Numbers and Keynote do a good job of importing most of MS formats.
Mac OS X's built-in TextEdit does a reasonable job of importing most simple Word documents.
LibreOffice or OpenOffice are open source and do a great job of dealing with MS Office Documents. (LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice. I understand Libre has more development and momentum, but I have not followed this closely.)