Is Office 2003 compatible with Windows Vista?

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Hi Leo; thanks for the help.

I have a new laptop, after my old one was killed by a freak ceiling fan accident (fell on it). I downloaded the old laptop on to a portable drive which I can hook-up with a USB cable. The old laptop was Windows XP; the new is Vista. I have already bought MS Office TWICE, I don't want to do it again, and I'm flat broke anyway. My problem is that even by accessing the external drive (windows xp), I can't open MS Office on my laptop and modify files (like my resume). I've paid for two licenses and still can't use the product, I need help.

Much thanks,
J. Smith

You do realize you need to install Office on your new computer, right? Since you've purchased it twice already, just grab the installatoin media you got, and install it on the new machine (using the product key you used when you installed it on the old, dead machine would be the safest thing to do). Then you should be able to open your docs. (Alternately you could download and install OpenOffice.)

03-Oct-2009

Wow Leo you were told exactly what the problem as by several people and ignored it. Terrific. If you don't know why Office 2003 slows to a crawl when accessing/saving files in Vista then just say so.

You idea of saving the file wherever and then hunting it down to move it to where you really wanted it to go is something but not a real answer to the problem.

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