Excel 97

Can you install Excel 97 on a new machine with Windows XP?

Yes

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"Barbara" wrote in message
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Can you install Excel 97 on a new machine with Windows XP?

-----Original Message-----
Can you install Excel 97 on a new machine with Windows
XP?
. I have the same question. How do you do it? I have
Office 97 and XP Home won't let me install Excel from it.

How are you trying to install it?


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: -----Original Message-----
: Can you install Excel 97 on a new machine with Windows
: XP?
: . I have the same question. How do you do it? I have
: Office 97 and XP Home won't let me install Excel from it.
:

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-----Original Message-----
Can you install Excel 97 on a new machine with Windows
XP?
. I have the same question. How do you do it? I have
Office 97 and XP Home won't let me install Excel from it.
*

I just did a clean wipe on my HDD 3 weeks ago, and I had to do a few
tricks to convince it to install. Office 97 is my 'Starter' Suite,
meaning it is the most recent Full Pri$e version from which I must
start since 2 subsequents are only upgrades.

Just toward the end of installation ((87%) of Office '97 on WinXP SP1 +
All Current Critical Upddates, their was a catastrophic failure that
ended the install. I manually copied C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\*.* from a Backup of Office '97, and everything was hunkdory
except that in Excel, drop-down menus don't drop properly. I'll figure
out how to fix that later. Anyway, it worked well enough to upgrade to
Office 2k Pro.

It is highly recommended that you download and save and implement all
appropriate Office updates before you open any Office progs.



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Actually if you have 97 and upgraded from that to 2000 and then from that t0 XP,
you dont have to install 97, just put the disk in the drive when your upgrade
looks for the presence of an earlier software.


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: -----Original Message-----
: Can you install Excel 97 on a new machine with Windows
: XP?
: . I have the same question. How do you do it? I have
: Office 97 and XP Home won't let me install Excel from it.
: *
:
: I just did a clean wipe on my HDD 3 weeks ago, and I had to do a few
: tricks to convince it to install. Office 97 is my 'Starter' Suite,
: meaning it is the most recent Full Pri$e version from which I must
: start since 2 subsequents are only upgrades.
:
: Just toward the end of installation ((87%) of Office '97 on WinXP SP1 +
: All Current Critical Upddates, their was a catastrophic failure that
: ended the install. I manually copied C:\Program Files\Microsoft
: Office\*.* from a Backup of Office '97, and everything was hunkdory
: except that in Excel, drop-down menus don't drop properly. I'll figure
: out how to fix that later. Anyway, it worked well enough to upgrade to
: Office 2k Pro.
:
: It is highly recommended that you download and save and implement all
: appropriate Office updates before you open any Office progs.
:
:
:
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