MS word version X from 2003 on Yosemite?

Hello,

I have my MS word office disks from 2003 "designed exclusively for OS X" I teach at a school and the computer I was given is a macbook pro with yosemite installed. We do not have MS Word on these computers--for reasons not worth explaining here. Is there a way to install this version of MS word on this computer? I did get the discs installed, but they won't open...how can I do this?
I don't mind using an old version, it is better than nothing!

Thanks so much!

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I'll take a guess that the MS Office version you have is too old and just won't work with your OS X Yosemite and you'll need a later version or use an alternative application.

You can get more details here if you can figure out the actual compatibility:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office#Compatibility

Is there a way to install this version of MS word on this computer? I did get the discs installed, but they won't open...how can I do this?

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You can't. MS Word versions prior to Office 2008 will not work with Yosemite. Older versions of Office need Rosetta in order to work. Any version of OS X later than Snow Leopard (10.6.X) does not contain Rosetta. The oldest version of Word that you can use is 2008. Why don't you use the free LibreOffice or even Pages?

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You can't. MS Word versions prior to Office 2008 will not work with Yosemite. Older versions of Office need Rosetta in order to work. Any version of OS X later than Snow Leopard (10.6.X) does not contain Rosetta. The oldest version of Word that you can use is 2008. Why don't you use the free LibreOffice or even Pages?

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Thanks for these ideas, I just looked at LibreOffice and it looks like a good option. All useful applications were deleted from our school computers --only "notes" for writing. I was looking for a workaround and was hoping my old word discs would work!

Every and any sort of Mac word processor -- from TextEdit to Pages to LibreOffice to (fill in any name you like) -- can read and write MS Word format files. I don't know your particular situation, but this really is kind of a non-issue, not being able to run Word itself, for most users and in most situations.