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Can I run Office 2003 on Vista Home Premium 64bit??

Doug wrote:
> I do not know if this is the right group for this question??
>
> Can I run Office 2003 on Vista Home Premium 64bit??


Yes.


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"Doug" <Duggliss@remove this @gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I do not know if this is the right group for this question??
>
> Can I run Office 2003 on Vista Home Premium 64bit??

Only if you install it !!!!

"Doug" <Duggliss@remove this @gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I do not know if this is the right group for this question??
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> Can I run Office 2003 on Vista Home Premium 64bit??

Yes.

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On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:12 -0400, Doug wrote:

> I do not know if this is the right group for this question??
>
> Can I run Office 2003 on Vista Home Premium 64bit??

You might want to investigate the free OpenOffice.org before you do that
- it's a simple downloadable install of a product that is quite MS Office
compatible - and it does import/export MS Office files.

"Mr. Arnold" <> wrote in message
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> ray wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:12 -0400, Doug wrote:
>>
>>> I do not know if this is the right group for this question??
>>>
>>> Can I run Office 2003 on Vista Home Premium 64bit??
>>
>> You might want to investigate the free OpenOffice.org before you do
>> that - it's a simple downloadable install of a product that is quite MS
>> Office compatible - and it does import/export MS Office files.
>
> I ran OpenOffice on my development machine for a week. It couldn't do the
> job and was weak. I got rid of it and went back to MS Office.

It DOES do the job, as long as you realise it's limitations, which mainly
are to do with opening complicatedly-formatted MS Office documents...

"Mr. Arnold" <> wrote in message
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> Gordon wrote:
>>
>> "Mr. Arnold" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> ray wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:12 -0400, Doug wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I do not know if this is the right group for this question??
>>>>>
>>>>> Can I run Office 2003 on Vista Home Premium 64bit??
>>>>
>>>> You might want to investigate the free OpenOffice.org before you do
>>>> that - it's a simple downloadable install of a product that is quite MS
>>>> Office compatible - and it does import/export MS Office files.
>>>
>>> I ran OpenOffice on my development machine for a week. It couldn't do
>>> the job and was weak. I got rid of it and went back to MS Office.
>>
>> It DOES do the job, as long as you realise it's limitations, which mainly
>> are to do with opening complicatedly-formatted MS Office documents...
>
> It didn't do the job I needed which was to do UML, which was forced upon
> the developers because the Scrum Master didn't know how to use MS Office
> effectively to do UML. I found out very quickly what a piece of junk
> Openoffice was in this area, and I quickly kicked it to the curb.

What is "UML"?

"Mr. Arnold" <> wrote in message
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> Gordon wrote:
>>
>> "Mr. Arnold" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> ray wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:12 -0400, Doug wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I do not know if this is the right group for this question??
>>>>>
>>>>> Can I run Office 2003 on Vista Home Premium 64bit??
>>>>
>>>> You might want to investigate the free OpenOffice.org before you do
>>>> that - it's a simple downloadable install of a product that is quite MS
>>>> Office compatible - and it does import/export MS Office files.
>>>
>>> I ran OpenOffice on my development machine for a week. It couldn't do
>>> the job and was weak. I got rid of it and went back to MS Office.
>>
>> It DOES do the job, as long as you realise it's limitations, which mainly
>> are to do with opening complicatedly-formatted MS Office documents...
>
> It didn't do the job I needed which was to do UML, which was forced upon
> the developers because the Scrum Master didn't know how to use MS Office
> effectively to do UML. I found out very quickly what a piece of junk
> Openoffice was in this area, and I quickly kicked it to the curb.

That's a fairly specialised and not-very-common use for Office.....

"Gordon" <> wrote in message
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> "Mr. Arnold" <> wrote in message
> news:#...
>> Gordon wrote:
>>>
>>> "Mr. Arnold" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>>> ray wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:25:12 -0400, Doug wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I do not know if this is the right group for this question??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can I run Office 2003 on Vista Home Premium 64bit??
>>>>>
>>>>> You might want to investigate the free OpenOffice.org before you do
>>>>> that - it's a simple downloadable install of a product that is quite
>>>>> MS Office compatible - and it does import/export MS Office files.
>>>>
>>>> I ran OpenOffice on my development machine for a week. It couldn't do
>>>> the job and was weak. I got rid of it and went back to MS Office.
>>>
>>> It DOES do the job, as long as you realise it's limitations, which
>>> mainly are to do with opening complicatedly-formatted MS Office
>>> documents...
>>
>> It didn't do the job I needed which was to do UML, which was forced upon
>> the developers because the Scrum Master didn't know how to use MS Office
>> effectively to do UML. I found out very quickly what a piece of junk
>> Openoffice was in this area, and I quickly kicked it to the curb.
>
> What is "UML"?

Err - Ever hear of Google? Err. You could have looked it up. Err. <sigh>

"Mr. Arnold" <> wrote in message
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> So let it be written and so it NOT be done with OO.

But that's like saying: OO is better then Office 2003 because it publishes
natively to PDF.
Yes of course there are differences in different applications.
For example, if in Windows you set in Regional settings that negative
numbers are bracketed, Lotus 123 will use that setting automatically,
bracketing a negative number with no further user action required. Does
Excel? No it doesn't - you STILL have to make a custom formatting.
So just saying "OO was weak and wouldn't do the job" WITHOUT the
qualification that you wouldn't have made unless I asked, is a bit devious
to say the least.