Vista and older versions of Word

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blackdog

I prefer my Word 97 to any newer Word version. However, with Vista I get this
error message when I print from Word 97.

winword.exe-Application error

The instruction at ox776d82b8 referenced memory at ox000000.... The memory
could not be read.

What I do now, is I copy the Word 97 file to a new version of Works, and
print it there.

Is there a solution, as I want to use Word 97 in Vista. By the way, I can
print envelopes in Word 97?
 
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Malke

blackdog said:
I prefer my Word 97 to any newer Word version. However, with Vista I get
this error message when I print from Word 97.

winword.exe-Application error

The instruction at ox776d82b8 referenced memory at ox000000.... The memory
could not be read.

What I do now, is I copy the Word 97 file to a new version of Works, and
print it there.

Is there a solution, as I want to use Word 97 in Vista. By the way, I can
print envelopes in Word 97?

You've posted in a newsgroup for the Windows XP operating system and your
question is about Vista and Word 97. I'd post in one of the Word
newsgroups. IIRC, you can use Word 97 in Vista but there may be workarounds
for issues. Sorry, but I don't know what they are. The Word experts in a
Word newsgroup will.

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups
microsoft.public.word.general

Malke
 
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Tim Slattery

blackdog said:
I prefer my Word 97 to any newer Word version. However, with Vista I get this
error message when I print from Word 97.

winword.exe-Application error

The instruction at ox776d82b8 referenced memory at ox000000.... The memory
could not be read.

What I do now, is I copy the Word 97 file to a new version of Works, and
print it there.

Is there a solution, as I want to use Word 97 in Vista. By the way, I can
print envelopes in Word 97?

Right-click the shortcut you use to start Word97, choose "Properties"
and check the "Compatibility" tab, that may solve your problems.

Vista questions are best asked in microsoft.public.windows.vista.*
(there are several of those groups), Word experts can be found in the
microsoft.public.word.* groups.
 
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M.I.5¾

EncinoMan said:
Why are you asking here? Do you see Vista or Word in this group's
title? No.

Ask elsewhere

Not everyone can access the Vista newsgroups so just ignore the resident
****wit.
 
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M.I.5¾

blackdog said:
I prefer my Word 97 to any newer Word version. However, with Vista I get
this
error message when I print from Word 97.

winword.exe-Application error

The instruction at ox776d82b8 referenced memory at ox000000.... The memory
could not be read.

What I do now, is I copy the Word 97 file to a new version of Works, and
print it there.

Is there a solution, as I want to use Word 97 in Vista. By the way, I can
print envelopes in Word 97?

Word 97 is not oficially compatible with Vista. It doesn't even work if you
install it in compatibility mode.

As you have discovered, it works in parts but not in others.
 
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Peter in New Zealand

I went through the same fight and gave up in the end. Only I didn't give up
on Office 97, I dumped Vista and went back to XP and 97 runs just as good as
ever. Now I'm planning to buy one of those little Asus Eee things and
getting it with Linux instead of XP on it saves me exactly $100 on the
price.

Not trying to tell you to revert to XP, but any Office version prior to 2000
will not work, and even 2000 has a few issues with Outlook.

Good luck.
 
M

M.I.5¾

Peter in New Zealand said:
I went through the same fight and gave up in the end. Only I didn't give up
on Office 97, I dumped Vista and went back to XP and 97 runs just as good
as ever. Now I'm planning to buy one of those little Asus Eee things and
getting it with Linux instead of XP on it saves me exactly $100 on the
price.

Not trying to tell you to revert to XP, but any Office version prior to
2000 will not work, and even 2000 has a few issues with Outlook.

I have heard (but have no personal experience) that Office 2003 doesn't work
completely either.
 
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Peter in New Zealand

M.I.5¾ said:
I have heard (but have no personal experience) that Office 2003 doesn't
work completely either.

Yetch! Looking at the new Open Office 3 I really wonder why on earth anyone
would even bother with MS Office any more. After using it for more than ten
years I have a large number of doc and xls files, but OOo can be set to
default to those types transparently. Unless there are some exotic business
reasons why MSO *must* be used, it strikes me that OOo does just about all
the usual stuff incredibly well.
 
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The Bored Spoofer

"Peter in New Zealand said:
Yetch! Looking at the new Open Office 3 I really wonder why on earth anyone
would even bother with MS Office any more. After using it for more than ten
years I have a large number of doc and xls files, but OOo can be set to
default to those types transparently. Unless there are some exotic business
reasons why MSO *must* be used, it strikes me that OOo does just about all
the usual stuff incredibly well.

The ONLY that Writer can't do at the present is handle the Word 2007
..DOCX files. Even older versions of MS Word can handle those wtih a
patch.

Still... OO ver.3 looks like a real WINNER. I've finally tossed MS
Office 2000!
 
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HeyBub

Peter said:
Yetch! Looking at the new Open Office 3 I really wonder why on earth
anyone would even bother with MS Office any more. After using it for
more than ten years I have a large number of doc and xls files, but
OOo can be set to default to those types transparently. Unless there
are some exotic business reasons why MSO *must* be used, it strikes
me that OOo does just about all the usual stuff incredibly well.

A blow-up doll does the usual stuff incredibly well (or so I'm told).

But it's just not the same thing.
 

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