I need office 97, where can I get that?

[kasecaitlyn]

If anyone can help me locate a place to install office 97 that would be great.

 

[DL]

Ebay?

 

[JoAnn Paules]

A place to install it? How about your computer?

A place to download it? Can't be done.

A place to buy it? eBay but I don't recommend anyone buy software that way.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

 

[Another Brian]

As happens, I have two copies of Office 97 Pro from my church which we
replaced years ago but never threw out. If you are interested, send me
an email to (the parts of this email that are to be skipped should be
obvious): (e-mail address removed)

Brian Bygland
Kent United Methodist Church
Volunteer IT Department
Kent, Washington

A place to install it? How about your computer?

A place to download it? Can't be done.

A place to buy it? eBay but I don't recommend anyone buy software
that way.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375

If anyone can help me locate a place to install office 97 that
would be great.

 

[Gordon]

If anyone can help me locate a place to install office 97 that would be
great.

Why would you want to? Open Office is far better than Office 97 and is
FREE......

 

[XS11E]

Why would you want to? Open Office is far better than Office 97
and is FREE......

and is not sufficiently compatible with MS Office to be useable, sorry.
I'd like to see that changed, I like OO and would prefer to run it but,
as I said, their claims of compatibility are much exaggerated.

 

[Gordon]

and is not sufficiently compatible with MS Office to be useable, sorry.
I'd like to see that changed, I like OO and would prefer to run it but,
as I said, their claims of compatibility are much exaggerated.

well I've never had any problems, and I would have thought that the latest
OO was more compatible with (say) office 2003 than office 97 is....

 

[XS11E]

well I've never had any problems, and I would have thought that
the latest OO was more compatible with (say) office 2003 than
office 97 is....

You would think so but apparently not. In an environment where
workstations are all running Office XP several employees have their
own laptops that can connect to the servers, those who run Office
2003 or 2007 can open Word and Excel files and create Word and Excel
files that can be opened by Office XP programs (after installing the
compatibility thingy), those creating files with OO find their files
cannot always be opened but they can usually read files created by
Office XP's Word and Excel. As with earlier versions of OO, the
files don't always open perfectly and if modified and sent back to
the server the Office XP workstations find the files are often
unusable. AFAIK, no such problems exist with files created with Office
XP or 2003 or 2007.

The fix was/is simple, users with their own laptops are told to use a
workstation to edit/modify/add to Office files.

 

[Gordon]

You would think so but apparently not. In an environment where
workstations are all running Office XP several employees have their
own laptops that can connect to the servers, those who run Office
2003 or 2007 can open Word and Excel files and create Word and Excel
files that can be opened by Office XP programs (after installing the
compatibility thingy), those creating files with OO find their files
cannot always be opened but they can usually read files created by
Office XP's Word and Excel. As with earlier versions of OO, the
files don't always open perfectly and if modified and sent back to
the server the Office XP workstations find the files are often
unusable. AFAIK, no such problems exist with files created with Office
XP or 2003 or 2007.

The fix was/is simple, users with their own laptops are told to use a
workstation to edit/modify/add to Office files.

That's an interesting one - looks like some sort of networking problem (or
authentication?) rather than an OO/Office incompatibility.....never come
across that before....

 

[XS11E]

That's an interesting one - looks like some sort of networking
problem (or authentication?) rather than an OO/Office
incompatibility.....never come across that before....

No, just OO's file incompatibility.