Office 97 and Windows XP

[Pat]

I am going to buy a new computer with Microsoft XP. I have been told that
Office 97 will not work with XP and I have to buy a current release. I
recently loaded Office 97 on my daughters lap top which uses XP and it seemed
to work fine. I only want to use Word, Excel and Power Point.

Does anyone know anything about this?

 

[Me]

It works OK with XP-SP1, not so OK with SP2
If you installed 97 on your daughters PC, did you buy it or just rip-off MS
and install it illegaly?

 

[Pat]

Me,

I paid for Office 97 and have been using it for years. It has everything I
need and I just can't see paying for a later version if this will work with
Windows XP. I assume that when I buy a new computer XP will be SP2. You
indicated Office 97 does not work that well with SP2. What did you mean by
that?

Thanks for your help.

 

[XS11E]

I paid for Office 97 and have been using it for years. It has
everything I need and I just can't see paying for a later version
if this will work with Windows XP. I assume that when I buy a new
computer XP will be SP2. You indicated Office 97 does not work
that well with SP2. What did you mean by that?

Office 97 has some html features and they will not install in Windows
XP with SP2. If you have a copy of XP w/o SP2 you can install Office97
and select all the HTML options, then do all the updates from the MSFT
website and then install SP2 and all will work nicely.

If you have a copy of XP with SP2 included you must do a custom install
of Office 97 and de-select all the HTML options, it should work but I
think you can't install the updates.

Earlier you said that your daughter's laptop had XP and Office97
installed fine, I think her laptop doesn't have SP2?

You said you are going to buy a new computer with XP, tell the seller
you insist on your copy of XP NOT having SP2 built in, you want SP2 on
a separate CD. Then you can install XP, upgrade it and then install
SP2.

BTW, I'm with you, Office 97 is my preferred version of Office.