excel

[aarie5]

Anyone know if microsoft office 95 or 97 will run on xp?

thx

 

[Trader333]

Office 97 certainly does and I would guess that Office 95 would do as well. Why do you need to know ?


Paul

 

[JonnyT]

Office 97 will run on XP but it is a 16 bit App and XP is a 32 bit OS. Office 2000 or above would be a much better bet as they we written to run on 32 bit OS's

JonnyT

 

[Tuffty]

Office 97 in XP. Excel is OK although Word gobbles up CPU power - don't know why or if it's just my setup.

 

[JonnyT]

Office 97 in XP. Excel is OK although Word gobbles up CPU power - don't know why or if it's just my setup.

Cause its a 16bit App running on a 32 bit OS...

Well documented as it Fcuks up Citrix installations.

JonnyT

 

[aarie5]

Hi
Thanks for replying. I create charts in lotus at the moment however I think excel would give a lot more options. I'm a bit green with this type of software so I thought I would go for a cheap version of word 97 (ebay £10-£15) and see how I get on. Excel will also allow me to open attachments posted on this site which I can't do using lotus. I have also found an alternative to Microsoft office at -
Http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=80007&item=7116020878&rd=1

Claims to be Microsoft compatible using very little memory and resources and at £7 sounds amazing. Anyone using this?

Thanks again

 

[JonnyT]

There is a freebee called Star Office that is 90% compatible.

Alternatively have you searched www.suprnova.org ?

JonnyT

 

[Tuffty]

PC Pro magazine in their Dec 04 issue recommended OpenOffice 1.1.2. 'excellent Microsoft compatibility' and free to home users I think. Check out www.openoffice.org It's the first time I've seen any mainstream magazine recommend any office suite other than you know who.

 

[Tuffty]

JonnyT, I think we're talking the same software. I think OpenOffice is the new Sun's StarOffice. I would move over to it but I'm paranoid about Excel compatability as 'excellent' may not be good enough.

 

[aarie5]

Tuffty,
Thanks I have downloaded office org and (armed with excel for the thicko's) It certainly seems to be a good alternitive. The only problem is that I can't ceate bar and line graphs in one display.I need this function.Do you know if excel can do this?