Installation of MS Office 97 on Vista...

Tried to install MS Office 97 on laptop with Windows Vista... does not install completely... hangs (not responding).  Because I can not install, I can't uninstall either.  What are the options I need to fix?

To uninstall, use Revo http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/revo-uninstaller/revouninstaller.html and that should do the trick.

MS Office 97 is NOT compatible with Vista: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/compatibility/windows-vista/Search.aspx?type=Software&s=Office%2097.  Try it for free OpenOffice atwww.openoffice.org , which offers almost everything what MS Office (except Outlook) and it's completely free with no advertising or anything like that (and it works fine).

I hope this helps.

Good luck.

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