Office 2000 Professional and Vista

[GMblues]

My old laptop has crashed and burned for the last time, can anyone tell me if
Office 2000 Professional will run on Vista? Or will I have to get my new
machine loaded with XP? I would rather not have to buy a new copy of Office.

Thanks,
GMblues

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Office 2000 was not tested on Vista and may have more problems than just
Outlook's known issues.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, GMblues asked:

| My old laptop has crashed and burned for the last time, can anyone
| tell me if Office 2000 Professional will run on Vista? Or will I have
| to get my new machine loaded with XP? I would rather not have to buy
| a new copy of Office.
|
| Thanks,
| GMblues

 

[DL]

And your new Laptop may not support WinXp, you would have to view your
Laptop manufacturers site to check whether WinXP is supported for your model

 

[Earle Horton]

Dell Inspiron 1501 available at Wal-Mart still supports XP. There are many
more. There will be many less "issues" with a new laptop loaded with XP.
http://www.usanotebook.com/ has refurbished laptops of all descriptions.
The Thinkpad I got from them five years ago is still working, but the Dell
is of course a lot faster. Office 2000 does work on Vista.

Earle

 

[AB]

I have Office 2000 running on Vista sp1 right now. I do NOT use Outlook and
cannot comment on it. But Word and Excel are doing OK up to a point. When I
click a file name in their open file dialog I get an error beep but it goes
on just fine. If I do a lot of editing in 1 document, especially if I have
saved something from online as html and want to clean up cells and rows and
columns, it has locked up. But regular use seems to work for me. I do not do
advanced things but do format and use tables and such.

I googled office 2000 compatible vista and limited the domains to
Microsoft.com and found http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087 which says
2000 works.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/ allows you to see what
hardware and software is considered compatible, also a Microsoft site. I
went to software then to office suites and found Office 2000 there too.

I don't want to spend money on a newer version of Office either. Especially
with the change in menus.