Excel 97 crashes in Vista

Hi,

Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista Business. We
have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes occassionally especially
when we use macros. Has anyone came accross with the same problem? Any
solution yet?

Thanks in advance,
Garry

Garry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista Business. We
> have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes occassionally especially
> when we use macros. Has anyone came accross with the same problem? Any
> solution yet?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Garry
>
>

http://forums.techguy.org/business-a...ord-macro.html
<-- Last post contains possible work-around.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r177...ble-with-Vista


BTW: You should probably upgrade to a newer version of Office soon...

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 10:50:31 +0800, Garry wrote:

> Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista
> Business. We have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes
> occassionally especially when we use macros. Has anyone came
> accross with the same problem? Any solution yet?

Many people have installed Office97 on Vista and are using it
successfully. I mainly use the MS-Word component of Office97 and the
macros and VBA stuff works fine. Simple spreadsheets seem ok but I
haven't run macros on them. Maybe you were having permissions
issues?

--
Chris Game

"Ignorance is Strength" - George Orwell, 1984.

"Garry" <> schreef in bericht
news:...
> Hi,
>
> Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista Business. We
> have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes occassionally especially
> when we use macros. Has anyone came accross with the same problem? Any
> solution yet?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Garry
>
Hi,
I suppose you know that older SW has to be run in compatibility mode

Regards
Huib

On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:07:45 +0100, "Huib"
<> wrote:

>
> "Garry" <> schreef in bericht
> news:...
> > Hi,
> >
> > Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista Business. We
> > have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes occassionally especially
> > when we use macros. Has anyone came accross with the same problem? Any
> > solution yet?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Garry
> >
> Hi,
> I suppose you know that older SW has to be run in compatibility mode


No, not necessarily. Although some older software needs to be run in
compatibility mode, lots does *not*. Excel 97, as far as I know, does
not.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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"Garry" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi,
>
> Our company bought new laptops bundled with Windows Vista Business. We
> have successfully installed Excel 97 but crashes occassionally especially
> when we use macros. Has anyone came accross with the same problem? Any
> solution yet?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Garry

I run Office 97 Pro SR2 on my Vista machine with no issues. If your version
is not updated to SR2, you could have some problems with it.