Windows 7 pro

[Tim Lamb]

In message , fred writes

Yes. The first one I tried unzipped OK but did not allow any alterations. Norton comments hinted at a minefield of doubtful sites so I didn't persist.

regards

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It marked a low period in his life.

[John Rumm]

You could use open office to re-save in an older MS office format.

[John Rumm]

A policy called "embrace and extend" (or how to take a non-proprietary open format and slowly make it proprietary!)

[Tim Lamb]

Yes or several other strategies suggested as a work around.

regards

[geoff]

In message , fred writes

What, like this?

;-)

[Mark]

M$ Office often struggles with documents created by different versions of itself.

[Mark]

[-snip-]

However VirtualPC is _very_ slow and, therefore, not particularly useable. If you're not concerned about the licensing issue then I'd suggest using VirtualBox instead.

[John Rumm]

Its slower compared to other options, however on modern hardware its unlikely to be a problem running old XP software - it will still probably be faster than it was on your previous machine IYSIM.

They have also integrated it in such a way as to make it a bit more transparent.

Indeed...