MS Office 2003

[Ray]

Is it true that MS Office 2003 is not compatible with Vista?
Thanks
Ray

 

[Dave]

No.
Office 2003 works just fine with Vista.

 

[Andrew McLaren]

No.
Office 2003 works just fine with Vista.

Dave is correct! Just to add a link to official confirmation:

Description of the versions of Office that are supported on Windows
Vista
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932087

 

[Ray]

Thanks for that.
PC World said that my copy of Office 2003 was not compatible with Vista.
They tried to sell me Office 2007.
I'm glad I didn't fall for their con.

 

[David]

Thanks for that.
PC World said that my copy of Office 2003 was not compatible with Vista.
They tried to sell me Office 2007.
I'm glad I didn't fall for their con.

not only is it compatible, i PREFER 2003 to 2007.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Is it true that MS Office 2003 is not compatible with Vista?

No, that's false.

 

[kevpan815]

Is it true that MS Office 2003 is not compatible with Vista?
Thanks
Ray

Microsoft Office 2003 Has Some Major Compatibility Problems Windows
Vista RTM (Try Saving An Excel 2003 File With Custom Macro's In It And
You'll See Exactly What I Mean), Just FYI.

 

[Andrew McLaren]

PC World said that my copy of Office 2003 was not compatible with Vista.
They tried to sell me Office 2007.
I'm glad I didn't fall for their con.

Geez, what a rip-off! You were wise to check.

Office 2007 is supposed to be the version that works best on Vista, but I
dunno ... I've had Office 2003 running on one Vista machine here for many
months, specifically to check for compatibility issues. I've used Word,
Excel, PowerPoint, outlook, run macros etc etc... no problems at all. Office
2007 is also a considerable re-learning effort. I have Office 2007 on my
laptop; it's okay, I'm starting to like it; but it certainly isn't a
necessary upgrade for the ordinary user.

There are a few Vista compatibility issues which are fixed in Office 2003
SP3, but they are pretty minor:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...49-3E13-433B-B9D2-5E3C1132F206&displaylang=en

 

[kevpan815]

Microsoft Office 2003 Has Some Major Compatibility Problems Windows
Vista RTM (Try Saving An Excel 2003 File With Custom Macro's In It And
You'll See Exactly What I Mean), Just FYI.

P.S. The Problem Went Away As Soon As They Removed 64 Bit Windows Vista
RTM And Returned To 64 Bit Windows XP SP2 RTM, Just FYI.

 

[Chris Sidener]

Microsoft Office 2003 Has Some Major Compatibility Problems Windows Vista
RTM (Try Saving An Excel 2003 File With Custom Macro's In It And You'll
See Exactly What I Mean), Just FYI.

Hell, I can crash Excel in any OS with a poorly written macro! ;-)

Chris S.

 

[Michael Solomon]

Thanks for that.
PC World said that my copy of Office 2003 was not compatible with Vista.
They tried to sell me Office 2007.
I'm glad I didn't fall for their con.

While I agree with everyone else on this, does your version of Office 2003
happen to be an OEM version you had on another computer? If yes, that might
have been the reason for their comment. In that case, it's not that Office
2003 wouldn't be compatible but you might not have been able to get it
installed and if you had been able to do so, you probably couldn't have
gotten it activated.

 

[D. Solomon]

Service pack 3 for office 2003 came out yesterday and solves all problems
with vista

 

[D. Solomon]

Service pack 3 for office 2003 came out yesterday and solves all problems
with vista

 

[John Whitworth]

Geez, what a rip-off! You were wise to check.

Office 2007 is supposed to be the version that works best on Vista,

I'd agree with that statement...but only as you've worded it...in so much as
Office 2007 runs like a donkey on XP - and has continual crash/auto recover
problems. I don't necessarily agree that Office 2007 is better than Office
2003 on Vista!

JW

 

[Guest]

NO, dear Dave, MS Office 2003 does not work fine with Vista.
It has all kinds of problems and SP3 didn't make any difference.
It stops and gives you debug errors all the time.
For example, try to get to work the Gallery of Office Assistants
in Options. You will get a message saying:
There is not enough memory available to complete this operation.
In spite that I have a new computer with 2 GB of RAM and an almost
empy 320 GB Hard Drive.
Can you help on this?
Please let us know how to fix it.
Thanks.

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Other than Office Assistants, what other problems are you experiencing with
the suite on Vista?

 

[Guest]

I just resolved the Office Assistant problem, downloading
the Microsoft Agent Core Components and manually
copying the file Agentdpv.dll from c:\Windows\MSAgent
to c:\Windows\System32
How come Microsoft did not include this easy fix
in SP3?

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Are the Office Assistants that important? Its something Microsoft has been
trying phase out since Office XP, they are not even in Office 2007. If you
are looking for help in Office applications, I would use the Help > Contents
and Index features instead of depending on Clippy. Its possible that Service
Pack 3 intentionally removed them or its just an incompatible aspect under
Vista.

You might want to post this issue in the follow ng:
microsoft.public.office.misc

 

[Leythos]

NO, dear Dave, MS Office 2003 does not work fine with Vista.
It has all kinds of problems and SP3 didn't make any difference.
It stops and gives you debug errors all the time.
For example, try to get to work the Gallery of Office Assistants
in Options. You will get a message saying:

I've never installed the OA on any system in years, but Office 2003 Prof
with all products seems to work flawlessly on our vista installs.


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[Chris Game]

Are the Office Assistants that important?

Hey, Earl is a great help!