microsoft office

[Guest]

My new Laptop has vista and a trial home and student office. Trial has run
out and from my old/unusable computer I have an XP office version. If I
uninstall home and student can I run office Xp version on vista?

 

[Andrew McLaren]

My new Laptop has vista and a trial home and student office. Trial has run
out and from my old/unusable computer I have an XP office version. If I
uninstall home and student can I run office Xp version on vista?

Hi Interceptor,

Yes - Office XP is officially supported by Microsoft when running on Vista.
See:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087

You'll need your old Office XP CD-ROM (or DVD) to install it on Vista ...
you can't transfer the program installation from the old computer across to
the new. But if you have the media, you should be fine.

Hope this helps,

 

[Richard Urban]

You would have to uninstall what you now have. You would also have to
uninstall Office XP from the old computer. Then you could install Office XP
on your new computer. Don't forget to get all the Office updates to bring it
current. It IS a few years old now and there have been many.


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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Guest]

thanks, saved me some dough

You would have to uninstall what you now have. You would also have to
uninstall Office XP from the old computer. Then you could install Office XP
on your new computer. Don't forget to get all the Office updates to bring it
current. It IS a few years old now and there have been many.


--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Guest]

thanks, saved me some dough

Hi Interceptor,

Yes - Office XP is officially supported by Microsoft when running on Vista.
See:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087

You'll need your old Office XP CD-ROM (or DVD) to install it on Vista ...
you can't transfer the program installation from the old computer across to
the new. But if you have the media, you should be fine.

Hope this helps,

 

[Peter Foldes]

The only thing that you might want to watch out for is Outlook. Office XP Outlook has a minor issue with Vista

http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm

 

[Guest]

Congratulations Andrew on the MVP.
You are one of the few people here that do deserve it.

Cheers from Qld

 

[Andrew McLaren]

Congratulations Andrew on the MVP.
You are one of the few people here that do deserve it.

Aww shucks ... thanks, mate Appreciate the feedback.

I actually received the MVP for supporting Microsoft Host Integration Server
(aka "HIS"), over in the microsoft.public.hiserver.general newsgroup. HIS
is Microsoft's product for connecting Windows networks to IBM mainframe
environments like SNA, CICS and DB2. HIS is the only Microsoft product I
really know and understand (well, apart from MSMQ, and Services for Unix).
I'm just an enthusiastic amateur when it comes to Vista ... but I'm learning
fast

The funny thing about the MVP is that it turned up completely out of the
blue. I didn't apply or anything. Just got an email from Microsoft one day,
saying "you're now an MVP". So no-one knows, when the fickle finger of fate
might pick them out ..

Cheers from Sydney,