Office 2007 Compatibility Pack

L

Lone Star

My new Windows 7 laptop came with a trial version of Office 2007 (Student),
which I uninstalled prior to first use. However, I have the PowerPoint
Viewer installed, which I use. Question: There's a huge 173 MB Office
Compatibility Pack in the Control Panel, Programs and Features, which can be
uninstalled. Can I uninstall this without any effect on the PowerPoint
Viewer or Microsoft Works (or Windows Live Mail) programs? Thanks.

EW
 
S

Susan Ramlet

Hi, Lone Star,

The compatibility pack is actually quite useful if you are running a
previous version of Office. Are you only using Works?

If you are using the PowerPoint Viewer 2003 and you uninstall the
compatibility pack, I believe you may have trouble opening PowerPoint 2007
files.

You can upgrade to the PPT 2007 Viewer if that's not what you have
installed:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...40-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

So, the answer is: it kind of depends. But Non-Office programs (Works and
Live Mail) should not be impacted.
 

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