will office 97 work with xp home

M

Mike

You can install it but there are some issues. Printing can be painfully slow.
Also, you will probably have trouble with the spell checker. There are other
issues but these seem to be the ones most people run into. Mike.
 
G

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.

My users have not experienced slow printing problems. The spellchecker
problem that "Mike" mentions is attributable to having multiple Windows
user profiles on the same computer, and is easily fixed with a minor
edit to the Windows registry. You should read the End User License
Agreement for your copy of Office 97 to see whether you are allowed to
install Office 97 to another computer.
 
R

Romulan

Thanks Garf - worked for me like a charm (after about 8 tries using
"compatibility," etc.)
 
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