Is Office 97 compatable with WinXP?

[Don]

 

[garfield-n-odie]

Office 97 does work with Windows XP, but some users report problems
installing Office 97 when Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is installed.
There are two ways around this problem:
1. You could uninstall WinXP SP2, install Office 97 and related service
packs, and reinstall WinXP SP2.
2. You could leave WinXP SP2 intact and do a custom installation of
Office 97 in which you set the Web Authoring Tools (HTML) to "not
available" in the setup options.

Don wrote:

 

[XS11E]

Office 97 does work with Windows XP, but some users report
problems installing Office 97 when Service Pack 2 for Windows XP
is installed. There are two ways around this problem:
1. You could uninstall WinXP SP2, install Office 97 and related
service packs, and reinstall WinXP SP2.
2. You could leave WinXP SP2 intact and do a custom installation
of Office 97 in which you set the Web Authoring Tools (HTML) to
"not available" in the setup options.

If method 2 is used, there may be problems updating Office97.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

I haven't run into any problems... can you give some examples of what
you're talking about?

 

[XS11E]

I haven't run into any problems... can you give some examples of
what you're talking about?

It's been a fairly long time but if I recall correctly either SR1 or
SR2 for Office97 refused to install giving errors similar to the errors
encountered when trying to install with the HTML options selected,

That's why my personal recommendation is to either:

1. Remove Windows XP SP2, install Office97 AND all service packs and
updates and then re-install Office97 or

2. Upgrade to Office 2000 or later.

As always, YMMV and if it works for you then... never mind <-best Emily
Latella voice)