Vista Home - Office 2003 problem...

[greyted]

Trying to help a guy with OEM Vista Home installed on his laptop. Have successfully transferred Office 2003 files (Word and Excel) from his old desktop pc (XP Home) using CD, file transfer and memory stick. When the Word or Excel files are opened on the Vista laptop, using Office 2003, they are corrupted; we have loads of little squares and commas showing where the data should be.

Is this?
1. A compatibility issue?
2. A corrupt install of Office 2003?
3. Or something I have missed?

Any ideas please?



"There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top."

Peter Cook

 

[linney]

Do you have another machine, XP or Vista, that you can test the viability of the files you have saved for transfer?

You could also test your files in situ with these programs.

Word Viewer 2003

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=en

Excel Viewer 2003

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...f4-996c-4569-b547-75edbd03aaf0&displaylang=EN

 

[Turkbear]

Hi,
'file transfer' or copy?

Be sure the files were copied using a BINARY copy process, not Ascii...





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[greyted]

linney:

Thanks for those links, will test in situ as you suggest. Do have another XP machine, will also try that.
Thank you for the ideas.

Turkbear:

Have tried file tranfer, copy via cd and memory stick. Used the Easy File Transfer utility also, same end result.

Will update when I have tried the above suffestions.

Sorry I have not replied earlier, been rather busy helping my Mother with funeral arrangements for my Step-Father.




"There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top."

Peter Cook

 

[linney]

Please accept our condolences on your sad loss.

 

[greyted]

Thank you, that is most appreciated.

Should have access to the laptop either today or tomorrow, will keep you updated.

"There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top."

Peter Cook