ms office 97 and XP

[chris]

I'm also using Office 97 and it works well at the moment. But, a
problem has just cropped up! I use Mailwasher to check my incoming
mail and then it opens Oulook Express to read them. Which it did
yesterday. Today I've just turned my PC on and it is trying to open
the Office Outlook mail system and will not open Outlook Express.
Strange, because I opted not to install Office Outlook when I
installed Office 97 and it will not open when I try to sort the
problem! Can anyone help? Cheers. Chris

 

[R. McCarty]

It's possible/likely that the Office 97 installed toggled the "Default"
mail client to Outlook. Just open Outlook Express, Click Tools &
then options. When the details box opens click the "Make Default"
button adjacent to the option box with "Default Mail Handler".

 

[chris]

 It's possible/likely that the Office 97 installed toggled the "Default"
mail client to Outlook. Just open Outlook Express, Click Tools &
then options. When the details box opens click the "Make Default"
button adjacent to the option box with "Default Mail Handler".






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Of course, of course, doh. Cheers R Mc. You'd think I was a novice.
Thanks.
If I may pick your brains one more time? Is it possible to make Office
97 read all other files/folders/applications which have been made on a
newer version, i.e. Office 2007. I had to take 2007 off, it was
slowing my old machine up! Cheers. Chris

 

[R. McCarty]

Backwards compatibility from 2007 to 97 isn't possible. About the
only option is to use the Office 2007 Viewers to be able to open &
view 2007's native format files. (.Docx....)

Haven't really seen severe performance loss with Office 2007. Did
you do a "Typical" install or "Custom". There are lots of features that
it installs that you may not need on a hardware limited PC.

It's possible/likely that the Office 97 installed toggled the "Default"
mail client to Outlook. Just open Outlook Express, Click Tools &
then options. When the details box opens click the "Make Default"
button adjacent to the option box with "Default Mail Handler".






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Of course, of course, doh. Cheers R Mc. You'd think I was a novice.
Thanks.
If I may pick your brains one more time? Is it possible to make Office
97 read all other files/folders/applications which have been made on a
newer version, i.e. Office 2007. I had to take 2007 off, it was
slowing my old machine up! Cheers. Chris

 

[chris]

Backwards compatibility from 2007 to 97 isn't possible. About the
only option is to use the Office 2007 Viewers to be able to open &
view 2007's native format files. (.Docx....)

Haven't really seen severe performance loss with Office 2007. Did
you do a "Typical" install or "Custom". There are lots of features that
it installs that you may not need on a hardware limited PC.






Of course, of course, doh. Cheers R Mc. You'd think I was a novice.
Thanks.
If I may pick your brains one more time? Is it possible to make Office
97 read all other files/folders/applications which have been made on a
newer version, i.e. Office 2007. I had to take 2007 off, it was
slowing my old machine up! Cheers. Chris- Hide quoted text -

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Yep looks like the only solution. Just insatllin Word, Excel and Power
Point should do the trick. Not even opening incoming Power Point Apps
now. No old files at all will open except if they are in Notebook. Not
many of them! Cheers again. Chris

 

[Bill in Co.]

There is a Microsoft Office File Format Converter Pack available for
different versions, but it may not go back as far as Office 97. I'm pretty
sure it does cover Office 2000, however (and enable those users to read
Office 2007 files, etc)

 

[R. McCarty]

Don't believe the 2007 Compatibility Pack covers Office 97. There is
earlier release of it for Office 2003 that did go back as far as Office 97.

 

[Nil]

It's possible/likely that the Office 97 installed toggled the
"Default" mail client to Outlook. Just open Outlook Express, Click
Tools & then options. When the details box opens click the "Make
Default" button adjacent to the option box with "Default Mail
Handler".

That happens every time I download one of those Spam Filter updates
for Outlook 2003 from Windows Update. That always makes Windows
reset my default email client from my preference (Pegasus) to
Outlook. I bet you're right, it's something similar for Office 97.
Rather annoying an presumptuous of Microsoft, I think... but easy to
fix.