Al, I have Off 2K at home and Off 2003 at work. Off XP didn;t offer a big difference (was suppose to w/ XML support, but it wasn;t right until Off 2003)
Bottom line, don;t fret it. Mark A Patton [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Al Taylor Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 10:43 PM To: ShopTalk@mail.msen.com Subject: Re: ShopTalk: Not Golf - M/S Office Thanks Steve, A little investigation into the install of 2000 premium told me that all the programs I wanted are there. I just installed that one. Thanks for your help. Al At 08:38 PM 3/24/2005, you wrote: >The Office Suite has (allegedly) progressed from: > >Office 97 ... to ... Office 2000 ... to Office XP ... and now to Office >2003. Not sure what the next one will be dubbed. This is the upgrade path >as far as I know it. For what most people do, any of these will work fine. > >I have had a different version of Access loaded ... as you describe ... >with no real problems. You will not get as good integration between the >programs if they are not at the same version level -- but, my guess is >that everything you want to do with it will be fine. > >Since upgrading to my new computer in December, I've been trying to hold >off of the Office suite -- and am using the OpenOffice.org product, a free >productivity suite available at (you guessed it) www.openoffice.org > >It has been really good for all I've wanted thus far ... no Access >equivalent though. > >Steve > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > Since Macs are being discussed can I ask the M/S techies a question? I > > had > > M/S Office XP installed on my puter. I bought 2003 Student and Teacher > > version and installed it for the PPT. It erased my Off XP and replaced it > > with 2003. I did the same on the Laptop. Now I have OFF 2000 for the > > Access program and have installed only the Access program. > > > > Question, are all three versions compatible with the Win 2KPro on my PC > > and > > the WIN XP on my laptop? They appear to be. Can I mix the programs, > > Eg. OFFice 2003 and Access 2000? Are they stand alone programs that > > work on all Windows platforms? Is one version of Office an upgrade from > > another or is one a newer better version than the next? > > > > I swore I would give up anything techy after they came out with Windows > > and > > I was too lazy to learn that environment, but alas, I still ask > > questions. TIA. > > > > Al > > > > > > -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.1 - Release Date: 3/23/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.1 - Release Date: 3/23/2005
