Is Office 2003 compatible with Windows Vista?

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I have just purchased a laptop with windows vista and a trial version of office 2007. I'm planning to un-install the trial office 2007 and install my old office 2003 because it wont install with 2007 and i dont want to pay for 2007 when 2003 is adequate for my needs.
is there any problem in doing this

please am using a laptop with window vista on it but i have been trying to install microsoft office 2003 but it doesn't work out.
please how do i go about it.
thanks

I purchased a new HP laptop with Vista Home Premium. I uninstalled the Office 2007 trial because I wanted to install my Office Small Business Edition 2003 - I have the discs and upgraded on a previous computer that had XP. When I put in the disc, I get a message that the key requires a version of office 97, 2000 or XP to upgrade and to supply a previous version on CD or other. There is no version of XP on the new machine. How do I continue the install?

Do I have to uninstall office 2007 (trial version) before installing office 2003? my computer is a 64bits with vista home premium.
I had a lot of trouble intalling some softwares like adobe acrobat 8 (which I had to migrate to adobe acrobat 9) and autocad 2008...with no solution till now.
Thanks
Eliana

i purchased a Dell Studio with Windows Vista already installed, including Microsoft Works. Do I have to uninstall MS Works to install MS Office? Can I just install MSPowerpoint while I continue to use MS Works?

Howdy , looks like a helpful website .,.,truly hope so .,.,.may even download this weekly deal .,.I'm just so skidish nowadays .,.it almost take a local tv station and the F.C.C to get rid of bad ( helpful as they say and they are not ) anyways I have the same deal under the guarentee of a 3 year program .,.the company had to send out 4 times to repair my last p.c ( 2,310.40 ) just in parts .,.not labor or all those parts delivered ..anyways it was considered a lemon and they replaced it with this vista .,. I have a simular deal as above but a little diff .,., I try to download the link from microsoftand it tells me that this is already in my p.c .,.so do you think I should get rid of anything that say 2007 powerpoint etc ,.,. I got rid of the trial for office 2007 when I turned this on for the first time .,.,but their is like pwr-point and another one left .,.( I would like to use my office 2003 standard edition .,.,thanks for any comment you may have merle is my hunting dog .,.and my name is Ira .,., thanks again for the listening.,., thanks for the free service need more like it !

Dear Mr. Leo,

Please help me I just newly purchased a Dell Windows Vista Laptop and quite dissappointed of knowing that microsoft office is not there and came to know that I have to install it separately

Now my question is:
1. which version of MS office will work better for my laptop.
2.Can I download it on the Internet for free, If ever which site is better to download?
3.Or do I have to purchase and let someone download it for me?

Your answer to the above questions will be highly appreciated.

Thank you and more power.

Lily

Leo,

I just change from old 32bit computer with XP pro to newer 64 bit computer with Vista. I have some old office 2003 files on my hard drive which i removed form old computer and have in an enclosure
I conecected old hard drive via usb to new computer and transferred files all the word documents were readable but none of the office 2003 files were.

Can I purchase and load office 2003 on my vista computer or should I load the latest version of office. if I load the latest versionof office will my 2003 files be readable in vista thru the 2007 office program?

I am having a big problem trying to install Office 2003 pro addition with vista. I keep getting a message that says that I can't install the manager addition of outlook until I have first installed office 2003. But how can I do that when it is all on one disk? my computer crashed yesterday and I have to reinstall everything,but funny thing is that I had this office pro on this oomputer before it crashed and never had this problem. What is going on? Can anyone out there help me?! Help please! thanks much

I have purchased an HP laptop with Vista Premium. I have a licensed copy of Microsoft Office 2003. I am running into numerous problems. Each time I use the Microsoft Email program I have to "accept" the license agreement. Then if I send an email I have to do it again. This is also true on my excel and word program. It was worse until I downloaded a microsoft patch. Prior to the patch I had to accept the licensing every time I opened a window. Is there a fix?

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