The family PC downstairs has XP Home (SP2) installed on it, but only has the crappy Microsoft Works shit instlaled on it... My younger sister uses the PC for her coursework and my old dear for her lesson plans for school etc... Powerpoint, Excel, Word etc...

I have a disc here with Office 97 (all of the above prgrammes plus some more) which we got when we bought a PC many years ago with Win98 OS on it... The Office disk is speeerate tho...

Can I install this Office 97 on the PC with XP on it?

Or should I wait till I get a copy of Office 2000?

 

You can install Office97 on an XP machine, should work fine......I used Office97 on a Win2k machine for quite a while.

 

What happens if it is not compatible tho? what will get fucked up? and can it be removed if it does get fucked up or not work?

 

It'll work fine m8, worst case scenario like all microsoft products it'll tell you to fuck off and get a newer version of Office

I have Office 2003 lying about somewhere

 

Thanks for the replys chaps - I was gonna do it, then a couple days later an envelope turned up with a copy of Office 2000 in it (cheers Graceland )

Any benefits of Office 2003 over 2000?

 

Few bit's and pieces, not used office 2000 for years so couldn't really tell you m8

 

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