will it work "rb" <rbig[ at ]bellsouth.net> 6/3/2007 6:32:03 PM I have a MS Word 2000 CD. I'd like to put Word 2000 in my WinXP desktop pc. The Word 2000 CD says for Windows NT and 98. Is the Word 2000 I have definitely not compatible with my WinXP?

Re: will it work "Shenan Stanley" <newshelper[ at ]gmail.com> 6/3/2007 6:49:41 PM rb wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have a MS Word 2000 CD. I'd like to put Word 2000 in my WinXP > desktop pc. The Word 2000 CD says for Windows NT and 98. Is the > Word 2000 I have definitely not compatible with my WinXP? First - try it. Make a system restore point, run an extra run of youtr periodic file backups (to be extra safe) and do it. Secondly - yes - Word 2000 should work on Windows XP. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: will it work Claymore <claymore[ at ]ontera.net> 6/3/2007 6:49:54 PM On Jun 3, 2:32 pm, "rb" <r...[ at ]bellsouth.net> wrote: [Quoted Text] > I have a MS Word 2000 CD. I'd like to put Word 2000 in my WinXP desktop pc. > The Word 2000 CD says for Windows NT and 98. Is the Word 2000 I have > definitely not compatible with my WinXP? Hello, I have Word 2000 Pro on about 10 XP home and pro computers at last count. Works just fine. One suggestion: Copy the entire CD to a backup partition, or some other suitable location and run the setup installation from there. One, it goes much faster; and two, every time Word has to install some additional function, you won't be asked for the CD (where is that damn thing??), but will install directly from the location where you copied the CD to, and installed initially. No fuss, no muss!

Re: will it work "Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed[ at ]example.com> 6/3/2007 7:09:30 PM 'rb' wrote: | I have a MS Word 2000 CD. I'd like to put Word 2000 in my WinXP desktop pc. | The Word 2000 CD says for Windows NT and 98. Is the Word 2000 I have | definitely not compatible with my WinXP? _____ Microsoft Word 2000 is definitely compatible with Windows XP and Windows 2000 as well as Windows NT and Windows 98 (I have five licensed Office 2000 installations that have run under Windows 2000 and Windows XP.) After you install, be sure to update with the necessary security and other patches. You can find a list of the downloads applicable to Word 2000 at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/browse.aspx?displaylang=en&productID=8F3E100D-A0E4-4C77-8F2E-E747ECFC85B7 . You should use the latest service pack and all of the more than a dozen security related patches listed. Phil Weldon "rb" <rbig[ at ]bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:e1LFc1gpHHA.3368[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... |I have a MS Word 2000 CD. I'd like to put Word 2000 in my WinXP desktop pc. | The Word 2000 CD says for Windows NT and 98. Is the Word 2000 I have | definitely not compatible with my WinXP? | |

Re: will it work "Ken Blake, MVP" <kblake[ at ]this.is.am.invalid.domain> 6/3/2007 7:15:56 PM On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 13:32:03 -0500, "rb" <rbig[ at ]bellsouth.net> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I have a MS Word 2000 CD. I'd like to put Word 2000 in my WinXP desktop pc. >The Word 2000 CD says for Windows NT and 98. Is the Word 2000 I have >definitely not compatible with my WinXP? Two points: 1. When your CD was produced, there was no Windows XP, so it wasn't possible for it to say anything about it on the CD. 2. Word 2000 definitely *is* compatible with Windows XP. So is Word 97 and Word 95. -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Re: will it work "Andrew Murray" <adKillSpammersmurray[ at ]iinet.net.au> 6/17/2007 10:59:57 AM It will work. I use Office 2000 at work, we have XP Pro as our OS. XP is NT-based, so I don't see why it shouldn't. It's jut that Office 2000 came out before Windows XP did, therefore omits WinXP OS listed on the box as (one of) the OS requirements "rb" <rbig[ at ]bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:e1LFc1gpHHA.3368[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] >I have a MS Word 2000 CD. I'd like to put Word 2000 in my WinXP desktop >pc. The Word 2000 CD says for Windows NT and 98. Is the Word 2000 I have >definitely not compatible with my WinXP? >