Excel 97 crashes in Vista

[Garry]

Hi,

Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista Business. We
have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes occassionally especially
when we use macros. Has anyone came accross with the same problem? Any
solution yet?

Thanks in advance,
Garry

 

[Universe_JDJ]

Hi,

Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista Business. We
have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes occassionally especially
when we use macros. Has anyone came accross with the same problem? Any
solution yet?

Thanks in advance,
Garry

http://forums.techguy.org/business-applications/674573-excel-97-unable-record-macro.html
<-- Last post contains possible work-around.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r17780112-Excel-Excel-97-compatible-with-Vista


BTW: You should probably upgrade to a newer version of Office soon...

 

[Chris Game]

Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista
Business. We have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes
occassionally especially when we use macros. Has anyone came
accross with the same problem? Any solution yet?

Many people have installed Office97 on Vista and are using it
successfully. I mainly use the MS-Word component of Office97 and the
macros and VBA stuff works fine. Simple spreadsheets seem ok but I
haven't run macros on them. Maybe you were having permissions
issues?

 

[Huib]

Hi,

Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista Business. We
have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes occassionally especially
when we use macros. Has anyone came accross with the same problem? Any
solution yet?

Thanks in advance,
Garry

Hi,
I suppose you know that older SW has to be run in compatibility mode

Regards
Huib

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Hi,
I suppose you know that older SW has to be run in compatibility mode

No, not necessarily. Although some older software needs to be run in
compatibility mode, lots does *not*. Excel 97, as far as I know, does
not.

 

[Kevin]

Hi,

Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista Business. We
have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes occassionally especially
when we use macros. Has anyone came accross with the same problem? Any
solution yet?

Thanks in advance,
Garry

I run Office 97 Pro SR2 on my Vista machine with no issues. If your version
is not updated to SR2, you could have some problems with it.