Window's 95 version of Office

[TJ Mack]

Does anyone know if Windows 95 version of office can be loaded onto Windows
XP home edition? I bought the 95 edition for my computer at the time and have
the CD, but I now have a Sony laptop that used to have XP Professional on it.
I had that installed by the gurus where I worked until last June so I could
keep in touch when I travelled. I no longer have acess to them since I
retired. My computer had to go in for repair and when it came back it had
been reloaded with XP home, which came on the computer when purchased.

I would like to have MS Word and Excel back.

 

[LVTravel]

You should be able to load Office 95 onto an XP operating system with no
trouble. If you do have a problem with running it you may have to use the
compatibility function of the XP OS.

I have installed Office 4.3 (a Windows 3.1 program) on a system running XP
and it runs fine. I don't have a copy of Office 95. Office 97, 2000, 2002
& of course 2003 works well on XP.

All you can lose by trying the install is time.

 

[Beth Melton]

Office 95 works fine on Windows XP with no need for Compatibility Mode. As a
matter of fact, if you do set Compatibility it will still function but with
a lot of odd results, such as saving file names with a single character.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
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MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[LVTravel]

That is why I specified "If you do have" in my original.

 

[TJ Mack]

Thank you to both of you. This is my first time at this forum. I really
appreciate the help. Merry Chistmas.