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03-03-2004, 08:16 PM
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Office XP vs Office 97
Hi folks I just researched a post where it was asked which office program was used and someone said that O97 was prefer'd over Oxp and O2003,well I have Oxp and o97,and I use powerpoit quite a bit not much else and I have win 98se on my new machine,now if I can do it right this time I will put a picture of my new puter here....
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03-03-2004, 08:34 PM
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just curious if there was a question, or if it was a comment
but i will add my views. i have used every office since 97 and i am very happy with 2003 right now. just my personal opinion, though craig
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03-03-2004, 08:46 PM
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Hi craig I'm sorry I forgot to ask my question,will Office XP work with 98se or should I just stick with Office 97
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03-03-2004, 08:53 PM
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according to the sys requirements, it will work, and i had it running for a bit on 98se. a bit slow, but not too bad. added more ram and it was fine
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03-03-2004, 09:06 PM
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Thank you, but I have also heard it was a resorse hog,I have 512 meg memory, might just give it a try,can always uninstall it and install O97 if I have problems
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03-03-2004, 10:03 PM
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yeah it was running just fine with 384, so you should be ok
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03-03-2004, 10:24 PM
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I ran Office xp on a 333MHz laptop with 128meg. A little slow as can be expected but it worked just fine.
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03-03-2004, 10:53 PM
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Is Office 97 doing what you need it to do? If so, why bother with upgrading.
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03-03-2004, 11:11 PM
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Office 97 does everything I need,Ijust heard Oxp had some better options,maybe I'll just stick with 97 and be happy with it..thanks guys I'm just pondering things right now...don't worry I'll find some thing else in the future to come back here and querry you brains...God Bless all...GaryD
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03-03-2004, 11:57 PM
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Gary, it depends on your specific needs.
XP has more format options, has the smart-tags, and other goodies like language tools. To me, the smart-tags and having all the languages in one package was enough for the upgrade. But then again, I really use those features as I do lot of writing in Spanish and English. If you share a lot of files with other people and those files have lots of formatting you may want to upgrade, as some format characteristics (like tables) degrade or lose completely if you open a document created in Word XP with Word 97.
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03-04-2004, 12:17 AM
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thanks nuc-Icant seem to be able to find my 97 disk anyway so I guess it will be xp,but when I started to load it I get this screen that says: Microsoft office xp requires newer windows system components not detected on your computer
To instal office,setup must update your system to the minimum required level of funtionality, including: Core systemand access components What does this mean, will it do anthing to the operating system??? GaryD |
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03-05-2004, 12:36 AM
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My impression is that it will install extra components for the apps to run. Yes, it will modify the OS but I don't think it will break it.
Although I have never encountered that problem myself, I have seen similar situations where a program needs to install or update OS files and/or components needed but not present. This happened to me with the Windows Installer in a W98 machine when I installed a burner. Heh, that time I had to download and install manually the WI update myself. But after that all worked fine. |
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03-05-2004, 12:44 AM
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Thanks Nuc-I havent installed it yet,But I guess I might just go ahead and do it,If it breaks something-can always format and reinstall windows..Being retired and not much else to do this time of year but sit arround and play with my computer,What the hey...
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03-06-2004, 04:58 PM
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I'm still running o97 - the only real reason to upgrade would be for the improvements in Outhouse if you use it. All other file formats are transportable across versions except Access.
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03-06-2004, 05:43 PM
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I loaded Oxp and it is working real well, I esspecially like the powerpoint in this one over the one in 97,I dont use outlook right now--Is it better than outhouse express??-if so I might just change over to it..Thanks glc...
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03-06-2004, 07:02 PM
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Outhouse XP is worlds better than Express - it's a full information manager, not just e-mail. It has a full contact list, calendar, to-do lists, reminders, etc. and all you have to back up is a single file that contains everything (outlook.pst).
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03-06-2004, 07:34 PM
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i'm running office xp pro on win98se on the system listed in my signature. runs fine, no problems, i let the install update my os too, no probs. also have done the same on another win98se machine that is not as powerful, and no probs there either. for all the extra features, dont really see any probs in going ahead... that's my 2 penneth.(50 cents worth!)
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03-06-2004, 09:11 PM
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Ok glc you convinced me,I'll get goen with outlook,I'll let you know what I think of it...Thank you wintomato for your input,
I think I like it also,,no probs yet.. GareyD |
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