Office 97 Pro Compability

[Access97/2000]

Is Office 97 Pro fully compatible with XP Pro? With Vista?

 

[LVTravel]

I have been using 97 pro on XP systems since XP came out with no problems
but here have been a few reported problems on various newsgroups.

97 will probably run on Vista (I haven't tried it yet on that OS) but since
Office 2000 is not supported by Microsoft on Vista it stands to reason that
97 won't be supported either. You would have nothing to lose but time by
trying it (with a fully backed up system.)

 

[XS11E]

Is Office 97 Pro fully compatible with XP Pro? With Vista?

With XP, yes but you may have some install issues, read the archives of
this newsgroup for details.

With Vista, no.

 

[Beth Melton]

I've never encountered any problems running Office 97 on Windows XP, nor did
I have installation issues.

Also, I haven't tried installing Office 97 on Vista but I would expect it to
run, just as Word 2 and Office 4.3 ran on Windows XP.

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Microsoft Office MVP

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[XS11E]

I've never encountered any problems running Office 97 on Windows
XP, nor did I have installation issues.

Come on, Beth, this newsgroup was full of problems/workarounds for
Office 97 once SP2 was released and Office 97 refused to install if the
HTML options were selected. There was an excellent workaround from Bob
Buckland if I recall....

Also, I haven't tried installing Office 97 on Vista but I would
expect it to run, just as Word 2 and Office 4.3 ran on Windows XP.

I haven't either but I'll bet you a donut it won't install on Vista 64
w/o problems such as Office XP encounters (Outlook won't keep account
settings, etc.)

I'm tempted to try it, I happen to like Office 97, no idea why?

 

[Beth Melton]

Come on, Beth, this newsgroup was full of problems/workarounds for
Office 97 once SP2 was released and Office 97 refused to install if the
HTML options were selected. There was an excellent workaround from Bob
Buckland if I recall....

That's a good point but 1) There are bound to be problems a few will
encounter, 2) I never encountered any issues (but then I already had Office
97 installed when the Window XP SP2 was added, and 3) this newsgroup is
always full of issues. ;-)

I haven't either but I'll bet you a donut it won't install on Vista 64
w/o problems such as Office XP encounters (Outlook won't keep account
settings, etc.)

That's Vista 64

I'm tempted to try it, I happen to like Office 97, no idea why?

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[XS11E]

That's a good point but 1) There are bound to be problems a few
will encounter, 2) I never encountered any issues (but then I
already had Office 97 installed when the Window XP SP2 was added,
and 3) this newsgroup is always full of issues. ;-)

That was fix #1, remove SP2, install Office 97, re-install SP2. Since
you had Office 97 installed before SP2 it worked for you.

Fix #2 was to do a custom install and uncheck all HTML options (that
wouldn't work for me, I wanted the HTML options)

Fix #3 was Bob's which involved a registry hack, it worked for many but
wouldn't for me, I wound up using Office XP which I still use in WinXP.

You're right, this newsgroup is always full of issues but some are
consistent and one was the changes made by SP2, those issues lasted a
very long time here. In a way, it may have been good in that probably
there were several who dropped Office 97 and moved to later versions as
I did.

 

[LVTravel]

That was fix #1, remove SP2, install Office 97, re-install SP2. Since
you had Office 97 installed before SP2 it worked for you.

Fix #2 was to do a custom install and uncheck all HTML options (that
wouldn't work for me, I wanted the HTML options)

Fix #3 was Bob's which involved a registry hack, it worked for many but
wouldn't for me, I wound up using Office XP which I still use in WinXP.

You're right, this newsgroup is always full of issues but some are
consistent and one was the changes made by SP2, those issues lasted a
very long time here. In a way, it may have been good in that probably
there were several who dropped Office 97 and moved to later versions as
I did.

Still like and use 97 for most of my work. I have installed full versions
of Office 97 Pro on many machines with XP SP2 already installed and have had
absolutely no problems with it as long as I had '97s SP 2b also installed
before I ran any '97 apps.