office 2000 vs office xp pro

dbnavan · 18-06-2005 2:32pm #1

Hi there,

Can anybody advise me on weather or not to upgrade to office xp pro, i use office alot and am quite happy with office 2000 version i have, a friend of mine gave me office pro as a gift, but i am dragging my heals deciding if i want to put it on my machine or not as I have heard varying stories about it.

Thanks in advance
D

Shane O' Malley · 18-06-2005 4:02pm

Do you use MS Access.

Asl far as i know that is the main difference.

There is no difference in Word or Excel

dbnavan · 18-06-2005 4:10pm

Thanks shane, dont us access all that often if it all.

Sparky · 18-06-2005 4:27pm

Ive office Pro 2003, is that the same as office XP?

Orion · 19-06-2005 12:10am

Sparky: it's not - XP is Office 2002.

dbnavan: there's not a lot of difference between 2000 and XP. As Shane said Access is the major difference. The rest is just cosmetic and bugfixes. If your current installation is working ok then I'd leave it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it

Capt'n Midnight · 19-06-2005 11:33am

Whichever version of word you use, go into
Tools,
Options,
Save,
Always create backup copy (the default on every other WP for the last 20 years /minirant)
Don't use features since Word 97

Otherwise your document may not be usable by people with older versions of word. users of www.openoffice.org and newer versions of word should be ok.

MsAccess - don't get me started, You can take it as a general rule that ALL versions of Access have imcompatibilites with other version AND that saving as a previous version fails far to often. There are lots of Technet articles on how to have multiple versions of access running at the same time.

office 2000 vs office xp pro

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