I have no trouble with Office XP with XP Home, but I had been using Corel 8
on Win 98 and had big problems using it on XP Home.
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From: "David Farrington" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] MS Word printing oddness
> This won't help any but I have two Dells that are 2.0Ghz systems and
> they do the same thing with Office 2000. My understanding from Woody's
> Office Watch is that Office 2000 is where the issue is as far as
> complete compatibility with XP. My systems are running XP Home version.
>
> My systems even do this sometimes on saving or inserting pictures or
> files. However, this problem does not always happen. Most of the time
> everything runs fine.
>
> I hope you find the problem.
>
>
> Will Stephenson wrote:
>
> >Hello all!
> >
> >A client has a brand spanking new Dell 2350: 1.4 P4, 30GB HD, and 512 MB
> >RAM. They put on a copy of MS Office 2000, though they had been using
> >Office 97 before the new machine. To print, they have an HP LaserJet
> >1000. Everything works well except: doing file/print on a previously
> >created document freezes Word - kind of. After going file/print, no
> >print dialog box pops up, the title bar of Word flashes (as does the
> >Word button on the taskbar). Word itself is completely unresponsive to
> >mouse and keyboard. However, right clicking the task bar button, brings
> >up the Print screen, and all can proceed as normal.
> >
> >Other points of interest:
> >
> >No other application seems to have this problem
> >The print icon on Word's toolbar works just fine
> >The HP driver is *ok* with XP (the CD says it's for XP), but is not MS
> >certified
> >
> >Would anyone have any idea why the print dialog box hides behind Word?
> >Shyness?....
> >
> >
>
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