Thank you so much for your reply! I have had unexpected company all day and just got online, so this is a welcome answer and just what I wanted to hear. As to Open Office, I have heard good things about it on this list and might have used it, but since I already paid my money for the MS Office 97, if it will work, then I am one happy camper! The friends/relatives I need to help are using the MS version so I think that will work better for all of us. I am just helping out a couple of friends/relatives who need to do some basic chores using PowerPoint and Excel. So I need to be able to see what I am doing on this PC. I don't like working on other people's computers if I can possible get out of it. If I mess mine up, I don't have to answer to anyone else about it! My DH wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole unless I'm there to help guide him. And that's usually just buying sporting goods,etc. for the grandsons! I like being the only one on my computer, LOL Again, thank you for your reply, Sammi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Andrew Dulaney Jr." <rdulaneyjr@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 12:53 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: MS Office Office 97 runs just fine on an xp system - there is also an Open Office option available to you for free and that works as good or better than M$Office works with M$ files just fine and with out the security violations - however to be honest I still run M$. Sammi <sammi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I am running XP Home SP2. Word 2002 came on this computer. I now find I have reasons to use Excel, Power Point etc. These programs don't come with the computers I am pretty sure. For my old pc - W98, I purchased Microsoft Office 97 and I also have the Office 97 SR2 Patch it came out with later. My question is: since I am running XP, can I install the programs from Office 97 that I need? NOT Word 97 obviously since Word 2002 SP3 is already on the new computer. I am thinking that there must be a custom install that will let me install only the parts I need. I am afraid of a conflict of OS versions. I could just go ahead and install those parts AFTER I set a restore point, just in case, LOL. But first I'd like to see what problems I might run into. Has any one here had any good/bad experiences doing this? Any advice is appreciated. BTW, I did check at eBay for a newer version of Office...but they were way too proud of the ones listed! I cannot afford the prices they are asking and getting. TIA, Sammi -- <Please delete this line and everything below.> To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/