MS Office 97 and Vista

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OK, I know it's ten years old but it does everything I want and it's the
last version before bloat arrived in a big way!

It installs fine and I can apply SP1 but SP2 won't install (it tries to
replace the tahoma font by the look of the log).

Has anybody cracked this one? I guess I can run with SP1 only but I'm not
sure what the implications are.
 
Office 2000 doesn't work on Vista either. I don't know if there will be a
hack to make it work or not. Office XP on up will work great with Vista.
Office 2000 and Office XP were not bloated. Office 2003 was a little
heavier than Office XP, but not that much worse. Now Office 2007 is
considerably fuller of bloat in my opinion. It is much slower than Office
2003 or XP, especially PowerPoint. Part of this reason is because when you
drag something in PowerPoint 2007, instead of showing an outline of an
image, it will actually show the image being faded. Regardless, Office 2007
isn't that bad either. I do like Outlook 2007 a lot after getting used to
the pane-like view, but I never used Office 2003, which I know also had this
design. The junk mail filter has been very accurate for me. Anyway, back
on-topic. To my knowledge, there's no hacks out there that will get your
Office '97 to work. I have a bad feeling you'll need to upgrade.
 
Office 2000 doesn't work on Vista either. I don't know if there will be a
hack to make it work or not. Office XP on up will work great with Vista.
Office 2000 and Office XP were not bloated. Office 2003 was a little
heavier than Office XP, but not that much worse. Now Office 2007 is
considerably fuller of bloat in my opinion. It is much slower than Office
2003 or XP, especially PowerPoint. Part of this reason is because when
you drag something in PowerPoint 2007, instead of showing an outline of an
image, it will actually show the image being faded. Regardless, Office
2007 isn't that bad either. I do like Outlook 2007 a lot after getting
used to the pane-like view, but I never used Office 2003, which I know
also had this design. The junk mail filter has been very accurate for me.
Anyway, back on-topic. To my knowledge, there's no hacks out there that will get your Office '97 to work. I have a bad feeling you'll need to upgrade.
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I have Office XP as well but I don't use it because it's SDI - and I
prefer MDI.
Office 97 works - it's just I can't get SP2 on, I think I'll try to do it
manually.
 
The Tahoma font might be corrupted?

Try this Jeff,

Copy the Tahoma font (regular not bold) from another pc's Font Folder
(family/friend) to your preferred storage format (floppy, thumb, cd etc.)
Then from your pc:
Open Control Panel=Fonts
Find the Tahoma font and delete.
Click "File" then "Install New Font".
Browse to where you saved the new copy of the Tahoma font and install.
Retry
installing SP2.
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Many thanks, I will give that a try :-)
 
That Tahoma font has been a problem with installing Access 97, ever since
Windows 98.

Alan
 
Hi Mark,

Actually, I misspoke when I said it was the Tahoma font that gave problems
installing Access 97 on Windows 98. (I guess with all this talk about
Tahoma, I had Tahoma on my brain.) The font that gave the problems was/is
"Hatten.ttf." Please see KB articles
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/141373/en-us and
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/191224/en-us for the fixes.
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It is tahoma in trying to apply SP2 under Vista :-(

I booted to Bart PE to try and delete it but even that wouldn't play. When
I've got an afternoon to spare I may try to put a script/batch file
together.
 
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