Hello all. My first post on here and need a bit of advice please. Can anyone tell me if MS Office 2003 will work on a Vista equipped laptop? Any info greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Instead of asking, why dont you try it! if it doesnt work then dont use it. Try something called OpenOffice it has all the same features of MS and much more. It also works for alot more OSs. MS office kinda bums me out sometimes so i use OpenOffice. I would reccomend it

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Ghost 375,
The reason I'm asking is because I don't have it in my possession yet. I've been offered it for sale so I want to be sure it works with Vista before I buy it. Thanks for the tip about Open office.

Hello primreamer,
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Office 2003 can work with Vista, but it takes a little bit of special effort as a lot of people have reported problems with it. You should consider Ghost375's suggestion of OpenOffice, or purchasing Office 07 - or switching your computer to XP and gaining a speed boost as well as 100% compatibility.

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couldnt have said it better myself ash Primreamer, i believe you should go with what ash said, Speedboost and 100% compatability sounds as good as heaven to me

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Task Number One: Get rid of Vista! It's unbelievable the amount of complaints I've heard about it. Practically everyone I know has something nasty to say about it. On the other hand, Windows XP (Professional not Home) is said to be quite good. As a matter of fact, you would actually get less problems if you switched to Windows 98, believe it or not! It's quite reliable and a number of individuals and organizations here on the island still use it. Anyway, you already have Vista and might as well make do with it as best you can.

I've never used OpenOffice but I've heard it's quite good from several sources. Having been accustomed to using Office 97 and 2003, the default layout of Office 2007 was confusing to me the one time I had a look at it on my nephew's new PC. For the life of me, I couldn't find out how to print what was typed. I was in a rush and the solution was probably staring me in the face but at the time I just wanted to quickly test out his new printer I'd just hooked up. I should've just typed something in trusty old Notepad instead!

Conclusion: Go with OpenOffice, primreamer 'cause it's FREE! ;-)