Microsoft Office 2003

[Guest goochy1]

HELP ?!?

Just started 6th form - Alevels - Maths Business ICT and Law.

1st assignment a PP Presentation, so after a new summer signing of a Sony Vaio on Vista springs on.

1st Problem - Microsoft office 2007...School still running on M Office 2003 so i cant really use it as i have to show my presentation to my overlarge Business class of 6 lmao.

2nd Problem - A mate gives me a copy of M office 2003 - are you having a laugh about Vista accepting it ?? So after i uninstall 2007 to downgrade to 2003 i find that it won't bloody install leaving me with now M office at all.

So - Is there anyway that i can use 2003 when on Vista ??

If not how do i go about uing 2007 so that it will open on 2003 [as i've been told you can] but i wanted to avoid using 2007 cuz tbh im quite stuck in my ways with the fact that i actually liked 2003 lol.

So if anybody can help me out here i would very much appreciate it.

Gooch

P.S i bought this lappy [VGN-NR32L] for the intention of my school only to find out when i got to school that it won't connect with the school WLAN network because it's on Vista - So theres another problem.

[Guest Dr Who]

Hmmm, I think I must be out of touch with the yoof, I can only understand about half of your post.

Firstly, why didn't you just use the Save As feature of Office 2007? You can save as Office 2003 compatible (Powerpoint 97-03). Think that solves your problem?

If not there is no reason that Office 2003 would not work on Vista, although it might be that Office 2007 hasn't unistalled completely. Try running something like ccleaner to tidy up the registry and delete the Office folder.

By the way I can't think of a single reason that Vista would stop you connecting to wireless network.

Edited September 7, 2008 by Dr Who

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

Vista should actually make it easier to connect to the schools network.

[Guest Confucious]

I can only echo what Dr Who and AWarner have said. Office 2007 on Vista shouldn't be a problem.

[Guest Stuart_f]

Do you actually have the correct WEP/WPA key for the network?

Is MAC filtering enabled on the access point?

[Guest jimbouk]

The only reason that the Office2003 your mate "gave" you won't install is because its either hooky or he has already installed and activated it.

As has been said before, use Office 2007 and then save your files as "powerpoint 97-2003 files" etc etc

And as for Vista not connecting to your school wlan, Vista is compatible with all the different encryption types that your school will be using

[Guest mcwarre]

Isn't ICT one of your A Levels??? ;)

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

Now that is be worrying lol

I don't know kids of today eh Mick?

[Guest Monolithix]

Also - Office2k7 will let you save documents in 2003 format....

[Guest goochy1]

To be honest the 2k3 was a preference but nope it doesn't let you install. . . I tried it today on another lappy [ XP ] and it worked fine.

I just prefered 2k3 thats why i uninstalled 2k7

And lovely sarcasm guys (Y)

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

Glad we could help ;)

2007 does take some getting used to but for beginners it's easier to use.

Personally I would not go back to a previous version.

[Guest jchamier]

Do you actually have the correct WEP/WPA key for the network?

I'd suspect the school is using something like Cisco LEAP, which has never been supported by Windows, and required the wireless card software. On Lenovo ThinkPad's on XP, you have to use the horrible Access Connections software to get LEAP support, and I gather the Vista version of AC, has removed the LEAP feature. Perhaps its the same on the Sony's.

[Guest goochy1]

lol the school is just awkward and won't pay to upgrade their network to support it because we hae just got 'Specialist College' Status for ICT and Maths so i think that next summer they're having a whole revamp so they won't upgrade their currrent system if theyre getting a new 1 soon.