Office versions - help please.

[Mark]

I received a new laptop with Vista Home Premium Edition and Microsoft Office
for Small Businesses 2007. I have a licensed copy of Microsoft Office
Professional 97 which I had installed on my old computer.

My question: is there any way I can I use my licensed copy of Microsoft
Office Professional 97 to install Access97 on my new laptop without creating
problems for the system files for Office for Small Businesses 2007?

If yes, what about SR2 and the jet update that came out for Access97?

Thank you,
Mark

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Mark,

While you can install Office 97, for specific issues that may occur with Access 97 on Vista you may want to use the link below to
also post in the MS Office Access discussion group.

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I received a new laptop with Vista Home Premium Edition and Microsoft Office
for Small Businesses 2007. I have a licensed copy of Microsoft Office
Professional 97 which I had installed on my old computer.

My question: is there any way I can I use my licensed copy of Microsoft
Office Professional 97 to install Access97 on my new laptop without creating
problems for the system files for Office for Small Businesses 2007?

If yes, what about SR2 and the jet update that came out for Access97?

Thank you,
Mark>>
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Please let us know if this has helped,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.access
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.office.access

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Mark]

Thanks Bob,
I couldn't get to either of the links you posted under "A.", but I posted in
microsoft.public.access.setupconfig.

I know that on Vista I have to run both setup and msaccess.exe as
Administrator.

I don't have the info at home, but at work I printed a thread that explains
how to temporarily replace certain Vista fonts with earlier versions in
order to either install Access 97, or the SR2 for Access 97 (I forget
which).

I believe I have to also first uninstall Office 2007, install Access 97, and
then reinstall Office 2007 -- is this correct?

I'm not sure about the Access 97 SR2 and the jet update. Do I also install
both of those before reinstalling Office 2007?

Mark

Hi Mark,

While you can install Office 97, for specific issues that may occur with

Access 97 on Vista you may want to use the link below to

 

[LVTravel]

Thanks Bob,
I couldn't get to either of the links you posted under "A.", but I posted
in
microsoft.public.access.setupconfig.

I know that on Vista I have to run both setup and msaccess.exe as
Administrator.

I don't have the info at home, but at work I printed a thread that
explains
how to temporarily replace certain Vista fonts with earlier versions in
order to either install Access 97, or the SR2 for Access 97 (I forget
which).

I believe I have to also first uninstall Office 2007, install Access 97,
and
then reinstall Office 2007 -- is this correct?

I'm not sure about the Access 97 SR2 and the jet update. Do I also install
both of those before reinstalling Office 2007?

Mark


Access 97 on Vista you may want to use the link below to

Do all updates for '97 before reinstalling '07 and its updates.

 

[Mark]

Thanks, LVTravel. I'm a little confused, however. In another newsgroup
(microsoft.public.access.setupconfig) Douglas J. Steele posted that he
didn't think it was necessary to uninstall Office 2007 before installing
Access 97. What's your opinion/experience about this?
Thanks,
Mark

 

[LVTravel]

Convention (and MS, but couldn't find the quote quickly) says that to run
concurrent versions of Office the oldest version should be installed first
followed by the next oldest, etc. up to the newest.

Also, I know that Office '97 isn't fully compatible with Vista. I haven't
tried to install Office '97 yet on my one Vista system and I probably won't
but I'll go with my Office '03 & '07 installs of which '03 is the Pro
version for Access.

While I have Access '97 installed on 3 Win XP systems along with Office '97,
2K, XP w/Access, '03 w/ Access & '07 versions concurrently I don't use
Access very much with either system. Every time I have attempted to install
an older version concurrently with a newer version, without uninstalling the
newer version, I have had various problems.

You can try it the way DJ Steele said and I wish you success, but, I also
see many posts to this and other NGs that show issues with trying to install
an older version with a newer version already installed.

 

[Mark]

Thank you, LVTravel.

Regarding your comment: "Also, I know that Office '97 isn't fully compatible
with Vista" ... could you elaborate, please? Are you referring to
installation problems, or operating problems after installation?
Mark

 

[DL]

Office versions prior to 2002 are not fully compatible with Vista, each
component has individual operational issues

 

[Mark]

Thanks for the response, DL
Can you suggest a resource that would tell me what to expect with Access 97?
Thanks,
Mark

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Mark,

The folks in the MS Office Access discussion group, mentioned previously, would be one source to query on Access 97 performance or
issues on Vista.

The right links <g> are below this time

The older versions are 'out of support' as far as testing and updating by Microsoft goes so they're not 'officially'
covered/documented.

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Thanks for the response, DL
Can you suggest a resource that would tell me what to expect with Access 97?
Thanks,
Mark >>

--
Please let us know if this has helped,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

LINKS
A. Specific newsgroup/discussion group mentioned in this message:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.access
or via browser:
http://microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/?dg=microsoft.public.access

B. MS Office Community discussion/newsgroups via Web Browser
http://microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx
or
Microsoft hosted newsgroups via Outlook Express/newsreader
news://msnews.microsoft.com