Scott

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 21:12:00 -0800, cutie_pyie
<cutiepyie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>
>In my work I have to use, create, modify, etc. Access DB files, MS Word 2000
>Docs., Excel Spreadsheets on a network or as standalone files on my notebook.
>
>I went to look at a new Toshiba notebook last week, running Vista Premium
>Home Edition, and was told that Vista (Home Premium), will not run MS Office
>2000!! By a Tech Support guy at CompUSA.

And you trust these bozos? I've read that office 97 will run on Vista
so certainly Office 2000 would.

There's one easy way to find out; install it...

>
>My questions:
>
>Do I have to buy a new Vista Notebook ($850+), and then fork over another
>$300+ for MS Office 2007 (with Access), and it is only the upgrade NOT the
>full edition?

Assumming you want Office 2007, then yes but what difference does it
make?
>
> Most of the new Notebooks now come with MS Works 8.x -- is Office 2007 able
>to upgrade THAT?

Yup.
>
> But will the files be accessible and modifiable in MS Office 2000 as that
> is what the other PC's in the company use??
>
> The companies main Database (and DOC files), are created and maintained
>using MS Office 2000, and if they
> are NOT/will NOT be able to interact with files created in MS Office 2007,
>then I HAVE to go back to XP and Office 2000!?

Office 2007 is backward compatible with Office 97 - 2003 formats