Mac mini and MS Word 98

Dysfunction · Jun 28, 2008

skaheadpunk said:
Haven't we already talked about this?

yea, but wine went stable this week (hit version 1.0 finally after 15 years). You could probably get office 98 running under that

schweb · Jun 28, 2008

chscag said:
BTW, if she just needs a word processor that will read from and save to *.DOC (MS Office), I highly recommend "Bean".

TextEdit already does that No need for another program.

louishen · Jun 28, 2008

this one is a double thread, can we merge them

j-man · Jun 28, 2008

OS x

Problem solved.

A big thanks to all who posted. Sorry for the double post in another forum.

I downloaded and installed NeoOffice. It worked great. Pretty user friendly also.

Thanks agian,
J-man

j-man · Jun 28, 2008

Thanks!

A big thanks to louishen. Problem solved.

A big thanks to all who posted. Sorry for the double post in another forum.

I downloaded and installed NeoOffice. It worked great. Pretty user friendly also. it does PowerPoint, Word, that's all I needed.

Thanks agian,
J-man

D3v1L80Y · Jun 28, 2008

NOTE: Merged multiple crossposts

j-man said:
Does anyone know if MS Office 98 will work with OS 10.3? I'm not sure if Office 98 is only for OS 9x or if it's compatible with OS X.

For the third time, yes it will work. You will need to run it under Classic in OS X. In order to be able to run under Classic, you will either need to install it from your machine's install discs or purchase a copy of OS 9.2 and install that.
Please, do not start yet another thread on this topic.

Mac SK · Jun 28, 2008

Us old Macheads win again, Why does everyone want to kick everything to the curb. You do not need a G5 and a million dollar OS to do basic stuff. Im posting right now with a Power Mac 8600 and OS9,it works and did not cost a zillion bucks.For something else, I can always whip out the Linux box.

drjayez · Jul 11, 2008

Another Vote for NeoOffice. Even if you get office 98 to run under classic mode you will not be able to load Office documents created under the newest versions of Office. neoOffice can open these. It also handles powerpoint compatible files. Go to their website and check it out.

http://neooffice.org