Old Versions of Word

I've come across a lot of Users who still cling to old versions of Word. I paid about 300 bucks for Office 95, and still use it with XP and have 95 Word on both Win 7 pcs. The Office other parts, Excel, etc. I wouldn't load in Win 7, as they don't work properly [my newer pc got Display problems with Office on the Desktop] and there are plenty of compatible freeware office suites.

I received a basic Office 2003 disk with an earlier, 32-bit Win 7 HP pc, and got the ready-installed Word 2010 with newer machines. I don't like being nagged at to buy or Upgrade, so I keep these newer progs in case I want to improve a 95 document with the increased font colours, etc.

There some important features missing when we Install this old Word version: Help, which installing Windows6.1-KB917607-x86.msu or Windows6.1-KB917607-x64.msu on Win 7 will facilitate, and PF7 generated Spell/Thesaurus.

Now, I don't know if anyone knows a better way to do this: but I looked for the file 95 said was missing when PF7 was pressed, mssp32.dll. I didn't have a clue where it would be in Win XP, so went searching. It was in C:\Program Files\Common Files|Microsoft Shared\Proof.

Win 7's PROOF seemed to have the same files, same size, different dates, but, maybe, they weren't going to work with 95. I copied them in, allowing 7 to Rename them (2).

So, it's all working now. Well, at least I'm still using MICROSOFT products in the main.

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1) An Office version supplied with a PC is likely an OEM version, and cannot therefore be installed on another replacement PC

2) Office 2010 supplied with a PC is likely to be a trial version, or at the very best an OEM version

You might as well use Libra Office, which is free

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Thanks. I have LibreOffice and Open Office and ATLANTIS NOVA and ABIWORD, etc., but I don't like their Word Processor set-ups, like Customisation. MS Word is far more versatile. Anyway, I just wanted to show that old Word can be used with Win 7.

As a footnote, I couldn't find /PROOF on my older pc, except a hangover from re-installation of the O/S, sitting in Windows.old, so I copied it into the Common.. Shared, and old Word works fine.

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