Office 97 & Windows 2000 ........Urgent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 1

[tlaksh]

Is anyone aware of issues with installing office 97 on a w2k workstation.

Please let me know

Thanks in advance
Lakshmi

 

[xlhelp]

Lakshmi, Haven't of heard of one. "A married man should forget all his mistakes. There is no point in two people remembering the same thing."

 

[carrr]

Me neither. Running two instances, actually.

 

[omargpe]

I could install Office 97 just in the workstations that has installed windows2000 professional, in in the others versions of windows2000, I cannot. Check yours.

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[tlaksh]

I was able to Install it on a 2000 workstation...My question was if there are any problems that anyone might have using these office apps in the long run.......

 

[beerhunter2]

No problems with the 97 apps themselves. May have backward compatability issues if opening files from 2000 or XP, but only if those files have special 2000 or XP specific functionality built into them. Otherwise fully compatable forwards and back. One never knows what Microsoft will do in its next incarnation of Office though.

 

[omargpe]

Oh. Sorry, I understood wrong. But by now, Not, I don't have any problem, in that wks. Salu2
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[fagan666]

I have discovered a couple of small, but weird things that happen:

1. Spell checking is greyed out. But only if the user is registered in the Users group. If that user is a Power User, Administrator, etc. there is no problem.

2. The "New Office Document" link in the Start Menu doesn't show the Blank Document link under the General tab.

That's it, so far.

 

[bhogaj31]

I have found that spelling and grammar is also not visible in the tools menu when the user is not a member of the Power users or the Admiminstrators group.

Is there any way around this, as in why can't a standard user on a win2kpro pc use the spellchecker feature without making them a member of the local administrators group or even power users .

I would rather leave the users in the standard users group.

It seems a bit silly that the "Standard" user can't use the spellchecker.

 

[bhogaj31]

For the answer, check out

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=257643,

This sorts out the spelling and grammar invisibility thing as mentioned above .

Does any one even read these replies??

 

[onedtent]

i do

 

[dazz42]

There are a lot of issues but they are not that hard to sort out. They are all permission related and can be fixed in the registry. If everyone is an administrator you're okay otherwise there are a few things you have to do. Firstly grant full control access to the everyone group to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\microsoft\office
For spellcheck give everyone read access to
HKEY_LOCALMACHINE\software\microsoft\shared tools\proofing tools
Check out he link below for more info

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;q257643

Hope this gets you started