Installing Office 2000

Cliddy

I have a CD that contains Office 2000. I load it on each new PC that I buy to save the cost of the latest version. It works fine and has more than enough facilities. I have just bought a netbook, so I copied across the 2 CDs onto a memory card and installed Office 2000 onto the Netbook.
Everything worked fine, all individual bits of software load up and work.

EXCEPT...... Word. It loads up (no errors etc.) but only displays what can only be described as a skeleton page. It's identifiable as Word, but has no text anywhere on the page, just a bit of shading and equaly it doesn't allow anything to be keyed in. Any ideas, as unfortunately Word is the one package I wanted.

macman

What OS are you running on the netbook?

bugeyed

Are you aware you can buy the latest version Microsoft Office 2007 for between £39 - £53 at the following site
http://www.software4students.co.uk/default.aspx

Office 2000 gets no support from Microsoft and you leave yourself at risk still using it as any newer vunerabilities are not patched

bugeyed

If you are determined to keep Office 2000
Have you installed the final service pack http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5C011C70-47D0-4306-9FA4-8E92D36332FE&displaylang=EN
May resolve the issue

Donnie

Worth a mention....if you are happy with Office 2000, you are likely to be happy with Open Office. It's free.

Cliddy

Thanks for all the help, below I have answered some.
OS on Netbook is XP

Don't want to use Open Office due to numerous incompatibility problems I have come across recently.

May try idea of student version, but do you have to prove you are a student !?

Will def try the latest service pack. Does it need specificaly loading or is it an automatic update. Because if so it hasn't loaded on recent connections (others have of course)

Don't think it's relevent but netbook has a "free" version of 2007 on it already, waiting for me to give microsoft a fortune. Can't imagine it's an issue as every other component has loaded OK.

bugeyed

To check the sp installed, click help and about in word and if it doesn't say sp3 then click the link and download the update. Then just run it - very straight-forward.

As for the software for students site, then require no proof to buy the 'educational' software - they trust you, and it is the full product, no time limits and mine came with a free copy of microsoft encarta.

Bookmark the site for future reference as they always have these fabulous offers

bengalknights

You mentioned that office 2007 is installed on the notebook, could this be conflicting with 2000?

Cliddy

Thanks for all this adivce, I do seem a cheapskate not just buying the latest version, but then that's what this forum is for, saving money. Just in case anyone else finds this thread and wants a solution too, this is my current status and perhaps a "solution".
Yes I accept that the 2007 version already on the Netbook may be interferring, but I do believe they should work in parallel (not that I'm actualy using it). And why just this one small display of a problem, all the other packages (Excel etc.) work fine.

I may try for the student version.

Meanwhile having searched elsewhere as well, there may be an issue with "normal.dot". It may be corrupted. Its seems to be an amazingly adaptable file (once you can find it!) if you delete it, it gets recreated automaticaly.

So the advice I found was to Run Winword with the parameter /a.
Amazingly it works everytime.

BUT......... I'm no further forward in finding out why. By the way Word 2007 uses a slightly diferent name, so it's not clashing with that. I've also tried copying over a working version of normal.dot and that doesn't work either.

So what I'm going to do is, create a desktop icon that loads Word with the parameter embedded. Not a permanent solution, but it will do.
Meanwhile I'm hoping some clever person can let me know what may be wrong with my normal.dot.
Thanks for all your help so far.

Cliddy

Sorry Bugeyed, forgot to respond.
Had a look and yes my version is SP3. For anyone elses benefit it's just one more button push than you suggested, Press "System Info" as well.
May take advice re. student version etc.
Many thanks

cottager

Cliddy wrote: »

Thanks for all this adivce, I do seem a cheapskate not just buying the latest version ...

Well if you are, I am too!
Does everything I need, and when the next version came along it had an extra panel to the side (can't remember what it was called -- they had it where I used to work) with so-called shortcuts which I hated. Some shortcuts and menu buttons I'd created didn't work the same either, or didn't work at all, so at home here I just didn't want it and stuck to my older version rather than upgrading. As long as it will still install on every new system it's just fine. I always save (and back up) normal.dot and other self-created templates, as well as other things like the dictionary, and carry them over to the new one so all my settings and other bits and pieces built up over time are preserved and I don't have to start again from scratch. Call me old-fashioned, but if it suits and does the job, why not?