Technical Support for Recovering MS Office 2000

Nirmal Ganguli · 09-04-2009, 08:08 AM

I have removed the 'MS Office 2000' form my PC by clicking accidentally over the 'Remove' of the Control Panel. My PC is 'Windows 98' first eddition. This has made me puzzled and I am not able to open my documents - Word or Exel.
How can I recover the removed 'MS Office 2000' without disturbing the Document files?

**OldGrayGary** · 09-05-2009, 02:47 PM

Hi Nirmal

To access the files, reinstall MS Office 2000 from it's installation CD, or from a folder that contains the installation files.

If you no longer have the installation CD, nor the installation files in a folder, you can download and install the free open-source office software "OpenOffice" (from openoffice.org). OpenOffice can open files in Office 2000 formats.

Best of luck
. . . Gary

P.S. ... the most recent version of OpenOffice seems to have dropped support for Win98, but many older versions are still available & do support Win98. You can find older versions at http://www.oldapps.com/openoffice.php

09-04-2009, 08:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
Nirmal Ganguli Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: West Bengal of India Posts: 1 OS: win 98	Technical Support for Recovering MS Office 2000 I have removed the 'MS Office 2000' form my PC by clicking accidentally over the 'Remove' of the Control Panel. My PC is 'Windows 98' first eddition. This has made me puzzled and I am not able to open my documents - Word or Exel. How can I recover the removed 'MS Office 2000' without disturbing the Document files?

09-05-2009, 02:47 PM	#2 (permalink)
OldGrayGary Mentor, Microsoft Support Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Woodland Hills, CA Posts: 2,240 OS: Windows 98se/2000/XP/Vista	Re: Technical Support for Recovering MS Office 2000 Hi Nirmal To access the files, reinstall MS Office 2000 from it's installation CD, or from a folder that contains the installation files. If you no longer have the installation CD, nor the installation files in a folder, you can download and install the free open-source office software "OpenOffice" (from openoffice.org). OpenOffice can open files in Office 2000 formats. Best of luck . . . Gary P.S. ... the most recent version of OpenOffice seems to have dropped support for Win98, but many older versions are still available & do support Win98. You can find older versions at http://www.oldapps.com/openoffice.php __________________ Last edited by OldGrayGary; 09-05-2009 at 03:09 PM.