Open Office has most of the abilities of Office except for the collaboration
ability and email/PIM. If you are using this for home use, it is probably
adequate. I haven't tried the latest version but others work well enough
for simple tasks.
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After furious head scratching, Barry asked:
| Thanks Can-So. Disk 1 does not work on other computers. I have office
| installed on an old computer that I only use to run an old DOS
| program. Is there a way to remove it from the old computer & install
| it on my new one? Also do you know anything about Open Office
| supposedly it's compatible with MS Office?
| Thanks.
|
| "Can-So" wrote:
|
|| I would try disk 1 on a different system and see if it can be read.
|| If the disk is bad then your out of luck as production of the office
|| 2000 media has been discontinued.
|| ||| Thanks DL. Yes other CDs open normally only had problem with
||| Office Disk 1 &
||| Click to DVD not opening. I tested Office disk #2 & it opened.
||| Someone mentioned that I may have installed the program more than 3
||| times which may
||| be the problem. Microsoft support said that a message would appear
||| saying that if it was the case. I did notice that the disk had a
||| couple of scratches
||| on it & ran a disk recovery program which did not detect any files
||| on the disk. As if the program just disappeared off the disk. Any
||| ideas?
|||
||| "DL" wrote:
|||
|||| Sound more like a problem with your cd drive than office cd.
|||| Are other cd's recognised?
||||
|||| ||||| I previously installed Office 2000 Prof on computer with no
||||| problem. Due
|||| to
||||| computer problems I had to install system recovery disks. Then
||||| when I tried to re-install Ofc with disk 1 in the tray of the
||||| drive I got the message
|||| that
||||| there is no disk in the tray. Why is the disk not recognized as
||||| being in
|||| the
||||| tray & how can I run the installation. Thanks for your help.
