which office for winxp pro?

[tris-]

tryed to install office 97, didnt work.

so can anyone tell me, do i need office xp or will office 2k work?

 

[Jonty]

Hi n3wbie

I'll just check this, but Office 2000 or XP (or 2003) should work with Windows XP Pro. I'm surprised that '97 didn't, to be honest.

Anyway, I'll just check

Kind regards

Edit ~ Office 2000, XP and 2003 should be fine (perhaps 97 would work under 'Application Compatibility Mode?')

 

[Deadmanwalking]

I have office 97 installed on XP home on the other computer with no changes of settings.

 

[tris-]

well i did a fresh install of 97, set compatability mode to win98 and when i goto page setup etc it just comes up with that error report thing.

 

[Xavier]

did you try it without application compatibility? Don't forget we had NT4 kicking around by then and it worked on there fine.

Try it without app compatibility and the latest service packs from officeupdate.microsoft.com

Xav

 

[xane]

I installed Office 97 on my new XP Home system last week, no problems, no compatibility needed, works fine.

 

[tris-]

everything is updated, i tryed without compatibility before i tryed it with it.

 

[(Shovel)]

If you can get a new one, do. The improvements in stability after 97 are worthwhile.

Features wise XP doesn't have much over 2000, though 2003 has a bit of a GUI polish, if not much in the way of revolution.

Trouble is, there's not much in the way of innovation in the Word Processor industry.

Edit ~ Just merged your posts for you ~ Jonty

 

[xane]

It's a good job Jonty is around as the Diety couch is getting a bit full these days

 

[FatBusinessman]

Yeah, (Shovel) is only 300-odd posts off Deitifying...

 

[(Shovel)]

Heh. No spam I'm afriad, just genuine interweb "issues". I blame ntl, it's happened before and then went away one day.