Vista vs XP

[Curious]

Recently I took a course on line for Word. They informed us it was being
taught from VISTA and that a lot of the applications were not available on
XP. Is this true and how do we make the 2 act the same

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If the course was in Word 2007, you can certainly install that version on
Windows XP. Some features (such as the Open and Save dialogs) will be a
little different, but there should be no major differences. OTOH, Word 2007
is dramatically different from previous versions of Word.

 

[Curious]

Thanks for your input. There are drop downs on Vista that are not there on
XP. I am running a version of office 2007 that is supposed to run on both.
You can imagine my surprise to see the differences. On Vista there are
difinitely more options.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Such as? I'm running Word 2007 on Windows XP.

 

[Curious]

When you are on the menu where you are orgainzing saved documents all the
fields have drop down menus on Vista but not on XP. These drop downs make
the tasks easier and have many more options. THat is the easiest one to see
and describe. I am wondering if there is a patch to make it work on XP the
same a Vista.

Linda

 

[Jay Freedman]

Recently I took a course on line for Word. They informed us it was being
taught from VISTA and that a lot of the applications were not available on
XP. Is this true and how do we make the 2 act the same

I think you got your software names scrambled.

Windows Vista is an operating system, and Windows XP is the version before that.
Neither of them has any bearing on what "applications" (maybe you mean
features?) are present in any version of Word that runs on those operating
systems.

Office 2007, the most recent version of Office, includes Word 2007. The version
before that was Office 2003, and the version before that was (confusingly)
Office XP which contained Word 2002. Any or all of these Office versions will
run on either Windows XP or Windows Vista.

There is a big difference in some of the features (*not* applications, which is
another word for "programs") between Office 2003 and Office 2007. This doesn't
depend on which version of Windows they're running on. And if this is the
difference you referred to, you can't make them "act the same".

 

[Curious]

When you are on the menu where you are orgainzing saved documents all the
fields have drop down menus on Vista but not on XP. These drop downs make
the tasks easier and have many more options. THat is the easiest one to see
and describe. I am wondering if there is a patch to make it work on XP the
same a Vista.

Curious

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I'm not sure what "menu" that would be, but it sounds as if you are
describing an Explorer window such as Open or Save, and those do depend on
the Windows version.

 

[Curious]

This is true. There are other places where you have the arrows at the bottom
of the ribbon. there are more on the drop downs on Vista. When I tried to
do some things in Outlook I ran into the same thing. Very frustrating but
workable. I have yet to find the template for writing letters and such on
either. It is definitely an adjustment from 2000.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The templates that ship with Word are found at Office Button | New |
Installed Templates. It is also the case, I believe, that Word 2007 shows
different features depending on whether or not you are operating in
Compatibility Mode, but I do *not* believe that the feature set is different
depending on OS.