Thread: ms office 2000 and vista

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Cheers
Simon

Originally Posted by 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

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

Originally Posted by 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

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

From what I've read here 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

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

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

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

Originally Posted by 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

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?

Originally Posted by 29dinosaur

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.