Office 2000 Compatability

I am considering buying a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. Will I be able
to use Office 2000 or do I have to upgrade?

On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:03:01 -0700, L <L@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>I am considering buying a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. Will I be able
>to use Office 2000


Yes.


> or do I have to upgrade?



No.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Office 2000 works OK except the 'Help' files. If you use Outlook 2000 you
will have to make the following minor change.

Use Explorer to navigate to C:\Program Files\Common Files\System
Copy wab32.dll and wab32res.dll to C:\Windows\System32



"L" <L@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am considering buying a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. Will I be
>able
> to use Office 2000 or do I have to upgrade?

On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:03:01 -0700, L wrote:

> I am considering buying a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. Will I be able
> to use Office 2000 or do I have to upgrade?

It will probably work, but I'd recommend an upgrade to OpenOffice.org. For
free.

ray wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:03:01 -0700, L wrote:
>
>
>>I am considering buying a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. Will I be able
>>to use Office 2000 or do I have to upgrade?
>
>
> It will probably work, but I'd recommend an upgrade to OpenOffice.org. For
> free.
>

That is a ridiculous recommendation in light of the fact that she
already has Office 2K and is knowledgeable about using it.
Also MS Office is obviously compatible with MS Office documents whereas
Oo really isn't.
Frank

"Frank" <fb@nospamm.cmm> wrote in message
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> ray wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:03:01 -0700, L wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am considering buying a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. Will I be
>>>able to use Office 2000 or do I have to upgrade?
>>
>>
>> It will probably work, but I'd recommend an upgrade to OpenOffice.org.
>> For
>> free.
>>
>
> That is a ridiculous recommendation in light of the fact that she already
> has Office 2K and is knowledgeable about using it.
> Also MS Office is obviously compatible with MS Office documents whereas Oo
> really isn't.
> Frank

Also, if she uses Outlook, there's no Outlook equivalent in Open Office.
--
Michael Solomon
Backup is a PC user's best friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

"Michael Solomon" <user@#notme.com> wrote in message
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>

>>>
>>
>> That is a ridiculous recommendation in light of the fact that she already
>> has Office 2K and is knowledgeable about using it.
>> Also MS Office is obviously compatible with MS Office documents whereas
>> Oo really isn't.
>> Frank
>
> Also, if she uses Outlook, there's no Outlook equivalent in Open Office.
> --
> Michael Solomon
> Backup is a PC user's best friend
> DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

There's not one in Office 2007 either. Unless she buys Office Professional
Plus or enterprise. It's not an ridiculous recommendation. I have switched
to OpenOffice and could not be more happy about it. And MS Office
compatibility is perfect.

"Martin Langsholt" <mlan76@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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>
> "Michael Solomon" <user@#notme.com> wrote in message
> news:5C6FCACC-8FB5-4B84-9BEC-5AFE3343C413@microsoft.com...
>>
>
>>>>
>>>
>>> That is a ridiculous recommendation in light of the fact that she
>>> already has Office 2K and is knowledgeable about using it.
>>> Also MS Office is obviously compatible with MS Office documents whereas
>>> Oo really isn't.
>>> Frank
>>
>> Also, if she uses Outlook, there's no Outlook equivalent in Open Office.
>> --
>> Michael Solomon
>> Backup is a PC user's best friend
>> DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
>
> There's not one in Office 2007 either. Unless she buys Office Professional
> Plus or enterprise. It's not an ridiculous recommendation. I have switched
> to OpenOffice and could not be more happy about it. And MS Office
> compatibility is perfect.

Well, not exactly. I experimented with Open Office and my Word documents.
The formating changed with Open Office.

Kind of like the old rental car commercial - "It's just like Office - well
almost".

"Mellowed" <nospam@spam.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Martin Langsholt" <mlan76@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:E305C8B3-A5B5-4E20-95B5-D27D8F0C6285@microsoft.com...
>>
>> "Michael Solomon" <user@#notme.com> wrote in message
>> news:5C6FCACC-8FB5-4B84-9BEC-5AFE3343C413@microsoft.com...
>>>
>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> That is a ridiculous recommendation in light of the fact that she
>>>> already has Office 2K and is knowledgeable about using it.
>>>> Also MS Office is obviously compatible with MS Office documents whereas
>>>> Oo really isn't.
>>>> Frank
>>>
>>> Also, if she uses Outlook, there's no Outlook equivalent in Open Office.
>>> --
>>> Michael Solomon
>>> Backup is a PC user's best friend
>>> DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
>>
>> There's not one in Office 2007 either. Unless she buys Office
>> Professional Plus or enterprise. It's not an ridiculous recommendation. I
>> have switched to OpenOffice and could not be more happy about it. And MS
>> Office compatibility is perfect.
>
> Well, not exactly. I experimented with Open Office and my Word documents.
> The formating changed with Open Office.
>
>

On Tue, 29 May 2007 19:43:15 -0700, Frank wrote:

> ray wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 May 2007 17:03:01 -0700, L wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I am considering buying a new laptop with Vista Home Premium. Will I be able
>>>to use Office 2000 or do I have to upgrade?
>>
>>
>> It will probably work, but I'd recommend an upgrade to OpenOffice.org. For
>> free.
>>
>
> That is a ridiculous recommendation in light of the fact that she
> already has Office 2K and is knowledgeable about using it.
> Also MS Office is obviously compatible with MS Office documents whereas
> Oo really isn't.
> Frank

Actually, Oo really is, as you would find out if you tried it. From many
of the posts I've seen here it is probably easier to install Oo, as well.