Install my Office Pro 97 pn new XP machine??

[Jennif1831]

I can't get the Office Pro 97 version to installon my new
XP computer . Help
Thanks

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

Are we supposed to guess?

Please post any error or other messages you have received during your
attempt to install the product.

 

[Jennif]

-----Original Message-----
Are we supposed to guess?

Please post any error or other messages you have received during your
attempt to install the product.

--
Cheryl Fischer
Law/Sys Associates
Houston, TX

"(e-mail address removed)"


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I'm sorry, it says that I don't have the required files

for the Office 97 to load. All it has ever needed before
is Works, which is on this computer. I'm wondering if
Windows XP doesn't support Office Pro 97? How do I get
around this?

 

[Eric Booth]

for the Office 97 to load. All it has ever needed before
is Works, which is on this computer. I'm wondering if
Windows XP doesn't support Office Pro 97? How do I get
around this?

Office 97 runs quite OK in Windows XP You need to show evidence of a
previous Office program to enable 97 to install
Eric Booth

 

[Epona]

for the Office 97 to load. All it has ever needed before
is Works, which is on this computer. I'm wondering if
Windows XP doesn't support Office Pro 97? How do I get
around this?

You don't and, indeed, you can't. The fact that you have Works is
irrelevant, what /is/ relevant is the *version* of Works; as this is a new
system it's very likely that this is the latest (i.e. 7 for vanilla Works or
2004 if the Suite). Office 97 is now six (nearly seven) years old - if you'd
taken a moment, and applied a little common sense and logic to the problem,
you could have come up with the answer yourself; which is that a *newer*
version of Works cannot be used as a qualifying product for an *older*
Office suite - how can it? The programmers didn't have a crystal ball, or
clairvoyant powers, now did they?! ;o)

 

[Dimmerbane]

Epona -

I'm new to this group, but you seem like an asshole. You couldn't find a
gentler way to make your point? If it frustrates you so much to have to
answer questions from people who you believe to know so much less than
yourself, don't bother.

- Dimmerbane