Would you believe that they still "sell" Office 95 on eBay, and for
considerable funds?
There must be so much fun parting a fool from his money.
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After furious head scratching, Diane Poremsky [MVP] asked:
| Um... outlook 97 was the first version of outlook, so there was no
| earlier code to break. Outlook programming did change with the newer
| versions and it's well worth upgrading to the newer versions if you
| are doing any programming in outlook.
|
| If I recall, office 97 was the first to use VBA, but old macros from
| previous versions of word and excel worked. In most cases, code
| written in office 97 will work in current versions but a few things
| will not work or will not properly convert the old macros to vba.
|
| Microsoft does allow software to be sold on eBay, provided it meets
| certain conditions. I sold my office 97 disks there - like 5 yrs ago.
| It's more likely that no one is listing it because it's unlikely
| anyone would want to buy it.
|
|
|
|
| || I dont think Microsoft allows Office 97 to be sold
|| on Ebay, and the reason that one would want to
|| purchase Office 97 is so they can run the visual
|| basic code written in it. I dont know if it is still
|| an issue but I know that Office 97 broke earlier
|| visual basic code.
||
||
|| ||| If you are so set on using it instead of one of the newer versions
||| (I can think of a multitude of real reasons for upgrading to them)
||| then try eBay if
||| you didn't take care not to lose your disks - or ask a friend for
||| his disks.
||| You could look on file shares but pirates rarely bother with the old
||| crap -
||| they want the new stuff that is worth having.
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||| |||| OK, so where do I purchase my Office 97 disk
|||| to install the damn program on my computer?
||||
||||
|||| ||||| I'm curious as to how it applies to office 97.
|||||
||||| If the program works for the user, on the users equipment, it's
||||| age doesn't
||||| matter. Neither does official support - every known problem
||||| should be in
||||| Google by now and assistance for the few that aren't (or can't be
||||| found)
||||| can
||||| be found in forums such as this - no need to bother with
||||| Microsoft - they'll
||||| probably get it wrong anyway.
|||||
||||| Availability of support from MS is low on my list of reasons to
||||| upgrade
||||| from
||||| older products - actually, it's not even on my list of reasons to
||||| upgrade.
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||||| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
||||| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
||||| Coauthor, OneNote 2003 for Windows (Visual QuickStart Guide)
||||| Need Help with Common Tasks?
http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
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||||| "Rose Madder" <RoseMadder at Gmail.com> wrote in message
||||| ||||||| 10 years in the computer world is the equivalent of at least 100
||||||| years
||||||| in
||||||| the non-computer world.
||||||
|||||| Where do you get these statistics? Just curious. It's quite a
|||||| claim -
|||||| ten
|||||| years equals a hundred years.
||||||
|||||| Not that I'm supporting the OP's silly diatribe, mind you.