Can Office 97 run on an XP Pro PC?? 1

[benbeneke]

Hi,

Due to budgetary contraints I am faced with the possibility of having to try to run Office 97 SBE on new XP Pro PC's until such time as budget is available to upgrade office.

Is this possible?
What problems are likely?

Many Thanks

Ben

 

[KenWright]

It should run fine. Only problems you might have (and these are not down to mixing 97 with XP) will be those of compatibility with later versions of files, but even these should be minimal, and in Excel's case restricted to various features, and some snippets of code that were new in later versions, which have some tweaks over XL97 but the file format is the same.

Regards
Ken.............

 

[benbeneke]

Thanks Ken,

This is strictly for within the office at the moment and these dollars now saved can be better spent elsewhere!

Cheers for that.

Ben

 

[KenWright]

It also wouldn't be worth buying the latest version of Office now, given that the new version is due out in a few months anyway.

Regards
Ken..............

 

[bdjb]

We run Win XP and Office 97 for the same reasons, and have no problems at all.
Bob

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