ms office 2000 and vista

[airfireman1]

Hi
will my copy of ms office 2000 work ok under vista, I just want to know before I try and load it as my laptop came with a trial version of vista office and it has now expired and I dont feel like forking out over $400 for the basic version of vista office.
cheers Dave

[abaddonxi]

Openoffice, it's free.
www: OpenOffice.org - The Free and Open Productivity Suite (http://www.openoffice.org/)

Cheers
Simon

[Handbrake hates Camping]

Hi
will my copy of ms office 2000 work ok under vista, I just want to know before I try and load it as my laptop came with a trial version of vista office and it has now expired and I dont feel like forking out over $400 for the basic version of vista office.
cheers Dave


Unfortunately the answer is No. Office 2003 and 2007 are the only two that will work. The other options are the open source type.

Doc

[dmdigital]

Hi
will my copy of ms office 2000 work ok under vista, I just want to know before I try and load it as my laptop came with a trial version of vista office and it has now expired and I dont feel like forking out over $400 for the basic version of vista office.
cheers Dave

For home use you can get the education priced version of office for a bit over $200 if you don't want to go down the OpenOffice path

[Delta_Farce]

From what I've read here (http://forums.techguy.org/business-applications/544026-office-2000-vista.html) you should have no problems with Office, but might see some issues with Outlook (if you use it). Word, Excel, PowerPoint et al should work fine though.

Cheers,

Mark

[airfireman1]

Thanks for the replys, I will see if I can get the education priced version as it sounds like an easy solution and it is for my daughter who is at UNI
cheers Dave

[Delta_Farce]

Hey Dave,

If your daughter has a valid University email address you can get Office Ultimate 2007 for $75AUD. Microsoft has a special offer for University students at the following website:

MS Office Offer (http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au)

I'm at the Uni of Tas and took this offer up last year. It's legitimate and you won't find a cheaper price for Office.

Cheers,

Mark

[29dinosaur]

Hey Dave,

If your daughter has a valid University email address you can get Office Ultimate 2007 for $75AUD. Microsoft has a special offer for University students at the following website:

MS Office Offer (http://www.itsnotcheating.com.au)

I'm at the Uni of Tas and took this offer up last year. It's legitimate and you won't find a cheaper price for Office.

Cheers,

Mark

Is 2007 backward compatible ie if I produce a document in 2007 can it be read and modified in say 2003 version?

[Delta_Farce]

Is 2007 backward compatible ie if I produce a document in 2007 can it be read and modified in say 2003 version?

If you save the document in compatability mode it is. This basically means saving files as ".doc" rather than ".docx". You do it by choosing "Save As" and selecting ".doc" as the file type.

[CraigE]

It will work fine, contrary to what some are saying. I have Vista Home Premium and Office 2000 Professional and it works fine on my new laptop, no issues at all. There are a few conflicts with some other software and games. Damn Microsoft, you would think by now they would make sure of backwards compatability and adequate drivers.

[HangOver]

According to this Microsoft KB article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087/en-us)
Office 2k will run on Vista

[Dougal]

Is 2007 backward compatible ie if I produce a document in 2007 can it be read and modified in say 2003 version?

Text seems to be fine, but I've had major issues with graphs, tables and pictures in the different versions of word (pre 2007 days). They'll turn sideways, crops will disappear, sizes will change.
Even between two different builds of word 2003.

Which is why I now do all reports on OO, despite having a paid for version of Office Basic 2007.

[LoveMyV8County]

Text seems to be fine, but I've had major issues with graphs, tables and pictures in the different versions of word (pre 2007 days). They'll turn sideways, crops will disappear, sizes will change.
Even between two different builds of word 2003.

Which is why I now do all reports on OO, despite having a paid for version of Office Basic 2007.

Like he said - Word just couldn't get a brochure layout right for me but OO did a perfect job. OO also allows you to create PDFs from your documents.

Back to the topic of the post - for those who want to be able to read Office 2007 docx etc files in earlier versions of Office there is a Viewer and compatibility pack downloadable from Microsoft's web site. I had to use them today.

Here Download details: Word Viewer (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=3657ce88-7cfa-457a-9aec-f4f827f20cac&DisplayLang=en)
and here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941b3470-3ae9-4aee-8f43-c6bb74cd1466&displaylang=en