Windows 8 and MS Word

If I recall correctly, Monkey, you haven't actually installed Win 7 on your Win 8 laptop yet. It will be interesting to hear back from you as to how that process goes. Hope it goes smooth and solves the problems you are encountering.

I sincerely wish I could have sat down with you and your new laptop for 20 minutes or so, I'm sure we could have gotten past the majority of your Win 8 issues.

burlmart wrote:
strollin

I gave Martha your instructions, but with her volunteer work in different groups, there were often files that Off97 did not accept, so since she has gone up a lot of the Libre Off learning curve, she'll stick w/ it

I guess I would too given its being 15 yrs newer.

Thanks (I;ll bet those instructions would help monkey w/ his W8 probs)

Maybe, Monkey says, but the real cure for my issue is to make all my LT into Win7 (see oldman, I paid attention) and that solves my situation.

Don't want to hijack this thread, but in addition, the Wdw8 continuously updates items I don't use and can't find to shut off. Since I use only a hotspot, I've overrun my allowance each month for the three months spent on this transition. That's never happened in about five or six years on the road with the Verizon hotspot. So, it's more than just the learning curve, it's taking my hotspot up too - and so that makes me pay for something I don't want or use or need - and I can't find what's using bandwidth but am sure it something (like news, ads, weather) updating itself and I don't care about "instant" knowledge - if I want to know it, I'll find it and it will be current at that point, it doesn't need to 'get current' when it's hiding.

strollin

I gave Martha your instructions, but with her volunteer work in different groups, there were often files that Off97 did not accept, so since she has gone up a lot of the Libre Off learning curve, she'll stick w/ it

I guess I would too given its being 15 yrs newer.

Thanks (I;ll bet those instructions would help monkey w/ his W8 probs)

I have Word 2000 on my Win8 machine and it works, but I use Libre Office by choice. It includes a spreadsheet and much more.

strollin wrote:


You should try setting the properties of the msword.exe file to XP compatibility mode or set it to run as administrator.

OK, I did this. Don't have time right now to test it out but I'll follow up. Thank you!

strollin

thanks, so much. that is what I took from your 1st explanation to Mockturtle, its just that I was confused in thinking win xp compatibility required pro versions of W7, W8, etc.

I will report on results here if I can encourage her to try these easy steps. I cannot read the small print on her Dell, and do not want to start messing w/ all the new display settings in this software that is 13 years advanced from XP.

mockturtle wrote:

strollin wrote:


I didn't run extensive tests but I did verify that I could create/save/reopen files in both Word and Excel. There may be features that don't work that I didn't try.

I was able to install MS Word 2002 and I can retrieve the files and create new documents. However, the program often closes unexpectedly.

Do you remember what were you doing when the program closed suddenly? I haven't encountered that happening but maybe you are using a feature I haven't tried.

You should try setting the properties of the msword.exe file to XP compatibility mode or set it to run as administrator.

strollin wrote:


I didn't run extensive tests but I did verify that I could create/save/reopen files in both Word and Excel. There may be features that don't work that I didn't try.

I was able to install MS Word 2002 and I can retrieve the files and create new documents. However, the program often closes unexpectedly.

Steps to install Office 97 in Win 8: (Same to install Office XP->Word 2002)

• Put CD in drive, if the installer automatically comes up, exit out of it
• Open File Explorer
• Double-click on the CD drive
• Find the setup.exe file and right-click on it
• Select Properties
• On the Properties dialog box, click on the Compatibility tab
• Put a checkmark in the box labeled "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
• In the Dropdown menu below the checkbox, select "Windows 98 / Windows Me"
• Click on Apply then OK
• Double-click on the setup.exe to run the installer

This works the same way on Win 8 or 8.1, Pro doesn't matter.

strollin wrote:

burlmart wrote:
could my wife do this with our Offoce 97 disk on her W8 Dell?

I just tried installing Word and Excel 97 on my Win 8.1 machine running the setup in compatibility mode for Windows 98 and they both installed and seem to work fine. Word 97 actually seems to work better than Word 2002 as it doesn't seem to need to run as administrator.

I do not want to hijack, but would dure like to know the general steps to tell Martha to take to run word and excell from the Office 97 disk. She has W8, not W8 Pro and not 8.1 yet - does this matter?

Mockturtle, she uses LibreOffice, albeit grudgingly. It was hard to learn how to print mailing labels in Libre.