windows Xp and office 97

[Guest]

I have transferred all of my documents from my pc with win 98 on it, to my new computer with win xp. i deletd the new office trial software and installed my office 97.. now everything is recognized as a wordpad document and i am getting a "not valid win 32 applicaton whenever i try to open a document in word 97.....i can write in office 97 but it saves as a wordpad file? any idea what is going on??
mstl

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Visit
http://office.microsoft.com/officeu...ID=CD010226311033&CTT=4&Origin=CD010224961033

and download all the available Office 97 updates, beginning with
SR-1, then SR-2.

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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|I have transferred all of my documents from my pc with win 98 on it, to my new computer with win xp. i deletd
the new office trial software and installed my office 97.. now everything is recognized as a wordpad document
and i am getting a "not valid win 32 applicaton whenever i try to open a document in word 97.....i can write
in office 97 but it saves as a wordpad file? any idea what is going on???
| mstl

 

[Guest]

thank you,
i did that and it worked great.
any idea what to do for the same situation with excel and powerpoint?