I just installed office 2003 on a 1999 Dell desktop with Windows 2000. These
should be compatible, but when I try to open Word, it gives me an error
message and says it has to close. It keeps doing this until i close it
altogether. Is this a windows/office compatibility issue or something else?

Something else, definitely.



"khh" wrote in message
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I just installed office 2003 on a 1999 Dell desktop with Windows 2000.
These
should be compatible, but when I try to open Word, it gives me an error
message and says it has to close. It keeps doing this until i close it
altogether. Is this a windows/office compatibility issue or something
else?

Is it Windows 2000 SP3?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"khh" wrote in message
...
I just installed office 2003 on a 1999 Dell desktop with Windows 2000.
These
should be compatible, but when I try to open Word, it gives me an error
message and says it has to close. It keeps doing this until i close it
altogether. Is this a windows/office compatibility issue or something
else?

Run Microsoft Update until it stops updating things. I think you may be a
few service releases behind :-)

I can't say any more until you can tell me what the error message is.

Word 2003 runs well on Windows 2000 (probably better than it does on windows
XP) :-)

Cheers


On 4/4/06 12:58 PM, in article
, "khh"
wrote:

I just installed office 2003 on a 1999 Dell desktop with Windows 2000. These
should be compatible, but when I try to open Word, it gives me an error
message and says it has to close. It keeps doing this until i close it
altogether. Is this a windows/office compatibility issue or something else?

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