Is Office 2003 compatible with Windows Vista?

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Your article on Office 2007 was great but it scares me.I had downloaded the trial version but anything I forwares using Word was unreadable by aany of the recipents so Microsoft said it was because it was the trial version so I "bit the bullet" and paid for the real thing though I am still using the trial. I know most of my friends(who never download things) will not even try to download a compatability pack so I see lots of problems ahead.Guess I should have stuck with the old version even if it meant difficulties with any power point attachments.

My 2003 installed but it always ask me to agree to the terms each time. When the 2007 trial was up I uninstalled it and now it 'sets up 2003 every time I use it. It works but I have to wait 5 minutes to use it. I have repaired and reinstalled to no avail. Hope someone has better luck than me.

Office 2003 works fine for me.
Vista Ultimate
The only thing, though, when I had office 2007 on there, I opened all my documents with it and now once it's uninstalled (too flashy and slow) and installed 2003, I can't choose winword.exe 2003 version to open my documents by default. It wont let me, sadly. Looking for a solution now.

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You might try using the office compatability pack:
http://ask-leo.com/how_can_i_open_office_2007_files_in_older_versions_of_office.html

Leo

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I have just bought a laptop with Vista business on it. I have Office2003 running successfully on my other XP machine. When I loaded it onto the Vista machine, the following problems occur -
1. I use a program called ShareO to share my calendar, contacts etc between the machines. This will not operate successfully on the Vista machine (I am in the middle of discussions with their support about this.)
2. I also notice small glitches in Office in other areas. If I try to change the default opening page in Outlook say from Calendar to Inbox, the changes are not saved & it reverts to the calendar.
3. When right clicking on Contacts & opening Properties, the message comes up that the Inbox assistant is not available.
4. I cannot use the import feature in Outlook to import a pst file.

I have the latest upgrades for Office 2003. These small things are frustrating and suggest to me that Outlook 2003 is not completely compatible with Vista. I have 2 choices - upgrade to Office 2007 or downgrade from Vista to XP Professional (the discs to do this came with the machine). What do you think I should do?

I installed Office 2003 on my new Vista Home Premium computer, then
transferred my data from my xp computer to the new computer using the Easy
Transfer Cable. All the settings and data transferred ok, but when I try to
Send/Receive, I get an error "You do not have appropriate permission to
perform the operation". I am logged in as the Administrator. Any ideas?

Al

Installed old copy of MS Office 2003 on new Vista machine. During the installation got an error message that a value could not be changed on some registry key, \CLSID\{13DEA42-8D21-4C8E-BF9C-8F69CB068FCA}. Continued with the installation and Office appears to work. However, I can't get the updates to install. Get the same error message. I have checked the "permissions" for that key and they seem to be OK.

I have a 2003 Microsoft office that I tried to install on my new vista laptop (was XP Pro version of Office). It says the key is invalid when I type it in. I didn't uninstall the 2007 trial first, could that be the reason?

I have Vista on my desktop...I installed Office professional 2003, excel opens and works fine but word will not open in anything other than safe mode. When I try to open a document i get an error messge saying that "Windows can not find the file" - Please make sure you typed it in correctly, and then try again". Do you have any solutions? I have already unistalled and reinstalled the software and I am out of ideas.

I just installed Office 2003 in my new Visa machine and it installed the hebrew language pack. I tried the language tool to reset it,but the calender in outlook still displays in Hebrew.

I uninstalled it until I can get an answer, what happened and how do I fix it. I am new to Vista and know only a little about it.

E-mail me please. [email removed]

Thanks for any help.

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