Windows 8 and MS Word
I recently bought a laptop that came with Win8 (I know, I know, but I'm stuck with it). It doesn't seem to like MS Word, on which I have all my documents stored and which I continue to (try to) use. ...
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1775 wrote:
This was true until Windows 8. In Win 7, MS made sure that there was a compatibility mode down to DOS, and included Win XP mode on the advanced version of Win 7 to be able to run anything that Win 7 had a problem with. Win 8 dumped all of that.
I have Win 8 Pro on my laptop and it does allow you to run software in compatibility mode. I don't know about other versions.
I installed Microsoft Office 2002 just to see if it gave me any grief. The install went fine and Word 2002 seems to work fine.
Many new PCs come with a trial version of Microsoft Office installed.
A question for mockturtle. Did you uninstall the trial version (if installed) prior to installing Word 2002?
