[jjackson90]

Your other option is to load a virtual machine running Windows XP inside Windows 7 and run Office from there.

[DaveKi]

Wow! Word 6 must have had some features you REALLY liked to make you want to run it on a 64bit system... Actually, my guess would be that you have some Word 6 documents that won't open in the newer versions of Word?

I also have some old versions of stuff that I need to finish backing up to thumb drives and DVD's (like a bunch of old "floppy" and "Zip drive" disks). Unfortunately, irt the Zip disks, I have two 100MB readers but the ZIP disks come in 100 AND 250MB versions. For whatever reason, the 250MB size disks (I have 3 of them) won't fit in the 100MB readers!!! I received the Zip disks in the military in 2002 (military always seems to end up with Betamax type items...). Now I have to try locating someone with a 250MB reader so I can get the info off those before it's lost forever. Uggg...

[LiveBrianD]

DaveKi, on 17 April 2012 - 10:15 AM, said:

Wow! Word 6 must have had some features you REALLY liked to make you want to run it on a 64bit system... Actually, my guess would be that you have some Word 6 documents that won't open in the newer versions of Word?

I also have some old versions of stuff that I need to finish backing up to thumb drives and DVD's (like a bunch of old "floppy" and "Zip drive" disks). Unfortunately, irt the Zip disks, I have two 100MB readers but the ZIP disks come in 100 AND 250MB versions. For whatever reason, the 250MB size disks (I have 3 of them) won't fit in the 100MB readers!!! I received the Zip disks in the military in 2002 (military always seems to end up with Betamax type items...). Now I have to try locating someone with a 250MB reader so I can get the info off those before it's lost forever. Uggg...

I just did that for fun - I prefer Word 2010. Yep, businesses and gov. agencies do tend to be out of date at times... (why on earth does IE6 STILL exist???)

[DaveKi]

Hey Brian,
Another Q irt Office XP compatibility... I have some PowerPoint presentations I wanted to open and they seem to be working fine. However, someone recently (last yr) gave me a presentation that I tried to open and my PowerPoint won't open it! The "online search help" took me to a site to download a 2007 PowerPoint "reader".

My only concern/Question for you is do you think there could be a conflict by having 2 PPT versions OR do you think a "reader only" program won't cause problems with the full 2002 version because it's only a "reader"? Have you ever run across this yourself?... I'm always concerned about possible software "infighting" going on in a computer.

This post has been edited by DaveKi: 18 April 2012 - 11:31 AM

[LiveBrianD]

Download this: http://www.microsoft...tails.aspx?id=3 and you'll be able to open Office 2007/2010 documents in older versions of office. Don't bother with the separate reader.

[ReviverSoft]

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it! The "online search help" took me to a site to download a 2007 PowerPoint "reader".

My only concern/Question for you is do you think there could be a conflict by having 2 PPT versions OR do you think a "reader only" program won't cause problems with the full 2002 version because it's only a "reader"? Have you ever run across this yourself?

Nope. It's just a standalone reader and does not conflict with the full installation of MS PowerPoint.

As suggested above, installing the Office Compatibility Pack should take care of the problem.