office 97 effects monitor display

nick danger · 01-05-2006, 11:17 AM

Hello,
I have installed my copy of office 97 in my computer running winXP home edition with sp1.Though the program appears to work correctly,everytime I use office 97, The screen goes blank foe a few seconds and then comes back on, but the resolution in now operating at an 8-bit low resolution.Is there any way to correct this?Is this a result of operating in winXP?

mlegg · 01-06-2006, 12:54 AM

that version of Office is outdated, but still should work in XP, there will be a few minor issues but I have yet to see one with the screen resolution.

you should go to do Windows Updates as you are still using SP1 and since SP2 has been out almost a year now there have been a ton of updates and patches. I suspect you may have some outdated drivers and such on there causing that issue.

01-05-2006, 11:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
nick danger Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: planet earth Posts: 32 OS: windows XP	office 97 effects monitor display Hello, I have installed my copy of office 97 in my computer running winXP home edition with sp1.Though the program appears to work correctly,everytime I use office 97, The screen goes blank foe a few seconds and then comes back on, but the resolution in now operating at an 8-bit low resolution.Is there any way to correct this?Is this a result of operating in winXP?

01-06-2006, 12:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
mlegg Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: seacoast NH Posts: 43 OS: XP Pro & Home, Win2kPro, Win98	that version of Office is outdated, but still should work in XP, there will be a few minor issues but I have yet to see one with the screen resolution. you should go to do Windows Updates as you are still using SP1 and since SP2 has been out almost a year now there have been a ton of updates and patches. I suspect you may have some outdated drivers and such on there causing that issue.