Windows Vista and Microsoft Office

I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
run the application at this time."
Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.

Nikki H. wrote:
> I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> run the application at this time."
> Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.

Post this message in one of the Office newsgroups. Make sure you include
the version of Office in your post.

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups


Malke
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In article <F9DDE716-7B60-459C-8C58->,
says...
> I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> run the application at this time."
> Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.

It would help if you'd tell us which version of MS Office you are trying
to install.
--


Kind regards,
Mark Veldhuis.

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:54:00 -0700, Nikki H. wrote:

> I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> run the application at this time."
> Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.

You might try OpenOffice.org - it won't cost you a farthing to see if it
meets your needs - and it most likely will.

I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?

"ray" wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:54:00 -0700, Nikki H. wrote:
>
> > I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> > error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> > run the application at this time."
> > Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.
>
> You might try OpenOffice.org - it won't cost you a farthing to see if it
> meets your needs - and it most likely will.
>
>

Sorry, I'm almost computer illiterate...it's Office 2003
Does that help?

"Mark Veldhuis" wrote:

> In article <F9DDE716-7B60-459C-8C58->,
> says...
> > I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> > error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> > run the application at this time."
> > Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.
>
> It would help if you'd tell us which version of MS Office you are trying
> to install.
> --
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Mark Veldhuis.
>

Nikki H. wrote:
> I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
> with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?

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Not really, but sort of...you'll have some formatting problems.
Frank

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:08:02 -0700, Nikki H. wrote:

> I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
> with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?

I don't think there is a publisher module. I've used the word processor,
spreadsheet and presentation apps - they generally have no problem
importing and exporting MS files. Latest addition was a database. There is
an open source DTP prog called 'scribus' - don't know if there is an MS
version available or not.


>
> "ray" wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:54:00 -0700, Nikki H. wrote:
>>
>> > I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
>> > error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
>> > run the application at this time."
>> > Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.
>>
>> You might try OpenOffice.org - it won't cost you a farthing to see if it
>> meets your needs - and it most likely will.
>>
>>

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:31:18 -0700, Frank wrote:

> Nikki H. wrote:
>> I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
>> with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Not really, but sort of...you'll have some formatting problems.
> Frank

Really? I've not seen once since version 2 of OO came out.

ray wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:31:18 -0700, Frank wrote:
>
>
>>Nikki H. wrote:
>>
>>>I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
>>>with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?
>>
>>-----------------------------------------
>>
>>Not really, but sort of...you'll have some formatting problems.
>>Frank
>
>
> Really? I've not seen once since version 2 of OO came out.
>

hehehe...doesn't happen on letters to aunt millie, huh?
Frank