Can Office 97 run on an XP Pro PC?? 1

[benbeneke]

Hi,

Due to budgetary contraints I am faced with the possibility of having to try to run Office 97 SBE on new XP Pro PC's until such time as budget is available to upgrade office.

Is this possible?
What problems are likely?

Many Thanks

Ben

 

[bcastner]

Yes.

Not that you cannot Google and find odd problems, you most certainly can.

But for the normal user for normal tasks it works fine.

 

[TonHu]

This combination is officially *not* supported ...... But it will work if you are Administrator (like in the Home edition) or equivalent, and have installed Off97 when logged on with that usercode.
Most likely to give trouble are Outlook and Access (not included I guess). Outlook 97 should be replaced by Outlook 98 anyway, but most users can do with Outlook Express 6, included with XP.
Problem area is the registry-access and access to Program Files, this version of office doesn't comply to MS guidelines for storing application data in the Application Data directories, and writing to registry entries in the HKey_Local_Machine hive. These areas are forbidden for 'normal' users, but not for Administrators.

HTH
TonHu

 

[STEWARTH]

The problem is Office97 does not run properly under the Windows 2000/XP security model. In order to make it work you have to make the users Power Users.

 

[Shearergol]

I'm running Office 97 on 2000 machines, users only have standard user access, and we get no problems?

 

[saurabhkr]

Yes Office 97 runs fine in Windows XP, but in some functionality such as Clipart as well as in launching the VB Marco editor you might have to face some problem. Even the Microsoft Map feature does not work. The features wont work if the logged in user is having USER priviledges. For a POWER USER as well as ADMINISTRATOR you can work on all the features provided by office 97. There is absolutely no problem with Office 97 on Win XP.

 

[Bobg1]

I have it running under home and pro versions and have not seen any problems.