Windows Vista and Microsoft Office

[Nikki H.]

I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
run the application at this time."
Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.

 

[Malke]

Nikki H. wrote:
> I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> run the application at this time."
> Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.

Post this message in one of the Office newsgroups. Make sure you include
the version of Office in your post.

http://aumha.org/nntp.htm - list of MS newsgroups


Malke
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[Mark Veldhuis]

In article <F9DDE716-7B60-459C-8C58-EAFAA134D7EF@microsoft.com>,
NikkiH@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> run the application at this time."
> Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.

It would help if you'd tell us which version of MS Office you are trying
to install.
--


Kind regards,
Mark Veldhuis.

 

[ray]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:54:00 -0700, Nikki H. wrote:

> I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> run the application at this time."
> Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.

You might try OpenOffice.org - it won't cost you a farthing to see if it
meets your needs - and it most likely will.

 

[Nikki H.]

I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?

"ray" wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:54:00 -0700, Nikki H. wrote:
>
> > I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> > error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> > run the application at this time."
> > Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.
>
> You might try OpenOffice.org - it won't cost you a farthing to see if it
> meets your needs - and it most likely will.
>
>

 

[Nikki H.]

Sorry, I'm almost computer illiterate...it's Office 2003
Does that help?

"Mark Veldhuis" wrote:

> In article <F9DDE716-7B60-459C-8C58-EAFAA134D7EF@microsoft.com>,
> NikkiH@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> > I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> > error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> > run the application at this time."
> > Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.
>
> It would help if you'd tell us which version of MS Office you are trying
> to install.
> --
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Mark Veldhuis.
>

 

[Frank]

Nikki H. wrote:
> I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
> with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?

-----------------------------------------

Not really, but sort of...you'll have some formatting problems.
Frank

 

[ray]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:08:02 -0700, Nikki H. wrote:

> I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
> with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?

I don't think there is a publisher module. I've used the word processor,
spreadsheet and presentation apps - they generally have no problem
importing and exporting MS files. Latest addition was a database. There is
an open source DTP prog called 'scribus' - don't know if there is an MS
version available or not.


>
> "ray" wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 06:54:00 -0700, Nikki H. wrote:
>>
>> > I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
>> > error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
>> > run the application at this time."
>> > Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.
>>
>> You might try OpenOffice.org - it won't cost you a farthing to see if it
>> meets your needs - and it most likely will.
>>
>>

 

[ray]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:31:18 -0700, Frank wrote:

> Nikki H. wrote:
>> I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
>> with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?
>
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Not really, but sort of...you'll have some formatting problems.
> Frank

Really? I've not seen once since version 2 of OO came out.

 

[Frank]

ray wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:31:18 -0700, Frank wrote:
>
>
>>Nikki H. wrote:
>>
>>>I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
>>>with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?
>>
>>-----------------------------------------
>>
>>Not really, but sort of...you'll have some formatting problems.
>>Frank
>
>
> Really? I've not seen once since version 2 of OO came out.
>

hehehe...doesn't happen on letters to aunt millie, huh?
Frank

 

[Stephan Rose]

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:33:49 -0600, ray wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:31:18 -0700, Frank wrote:
>
>> Nikki H. wrote:
>>> I looked on the website and it looks pretty good. Is Open Office compatible
>>> with everything Microsoft Office, i.e. publisher, excel, word?
>>
>> -----------------------------------------
>>
>> Not really, but sort of...you'll have some formatting problems.
>> Frank
>
> Really? I've not seen once since version 2 of OO came out.

There actually are formatting problems. I tested it out earlier this year,
can't say if any of it has been fixed yet.

The main formatting problem I had was that in OO, each line of text was
not as tall as it was in MS Word. Over the whole page, that added up
almost to an inch and made stuff from other pages move up onto pages they
shouldn't be on.

And yes, this was with the identical fonts used from Windows. I copied
them over to make sure it wasn't just a different font issue.

Other than that, everything loaded fine. But imagine what would happen if
you had a few hundred page document and content moving around because the
line height doesn't match up. Not a good thing.

Each line really is only off by a very very minute amount, but...it adds
up.

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[Mick Murphy]

Office 2003 and Vista ARE compatible it is what I use myself.

"Nikki H." wrote:

> Sorry, I'm almost computer illiterate...it's Office 2003
> Does that help?
>
> "Mark Veldhuis" wrote:
>
> > In article <F9DDE716-7B60-459C-8C58-EAFAA134D7EF@microsoft.com>,
> > NikkiH@discussions.microsoft.com says...
> > > I"m trying to load Microsoft Office onto my laptop that runs Vista. But an
> > > error message pops up that says: "The operating system is not configured to
> > > run the application at this time."
> > > Can anyone help? I really need office on my computer.
> >
> > It would help if you'd tell us which version of MS Office you are trying
> > to install.
> > --
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Mark Veldhuis.
> >