Question MS Office 2007 Ultimate: Issues with Windows 11?

[Dave3000]

I'm currently using LibreOffice but I was thinking about going back to MS Office 2007 Ultimate, which I got at a great student discount back in 2009 when I was a college student. This is a retail licensed copy that was purchased as a digital download, and not student/educational licensed version. Will MS Office 2007 work without issues in Windows 11? I right now I don't have a DVD drive installed in my PC and my case does not support 5.25" drives and I burned my digital copy of MS Office 2007 to a DVD-R back in 2009 and I have the activation key stored with it. Is it worth buying a portable DVD drive and going back to MS Office 2007 or should I keep using the latest mainstream version LibreOffice? Will cross-platform format compatibility suck anyways between working with files created with MS Office 2007 and opening them up in MS Office 2021 or MS 365 and vice versa because of how old MS Office 2007 is?

 

[C1]

A guess is that OF2007 should work fine in Win11. (I use OF2003 in Win10.)

Also, you shouldnt need to buy a DvD reader/writer (unless you really want one). All the public library machines (for public use on internet) around here have CD/DvD drives in them. Just go to there & use one of the available machines to transfer the DVD files to either a thumb drive or portable USB drive.


Good luck

 

[Dave3000]

A guess is that OF2007 should work fine in Win11. (I use OF2003 in Win10.)

Also, you shouldnt need to buy a DvD reader/writer (unless you really want one). All the public library machines (for public use on internet) around here have CD/DvD drives in them. Just go to there & use one of the available machines to transfer the DVD files to either a thumb drive or portable USB drive.


Good luck

I'm talking about installing MS Office 2007 software from a DVD-R. I'm not talking about transferring files I created with MS Office 2007 to a DVD-R.

 

[C1]

Looks like there's a number of ways it might be done from copied media.
Try this one:

https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-load-microsoft-office-from-a-flash-drive

Good luck

PS: Oh ya, MS claims it doesnt support OF2007 in Win11, but doesnt mean that it wont work, just means MS hasnt evauated the feasibility. So, you'll just have to try to find out. Worst case would be to use VM.

 

[Oyeve]

It should work fine. At my job I install office 2003 on win10 and win11 for a legacy access database that only work with access 2003.

 

[Dave3000]

I reinstalled my retail copy of MS Office 2007 Ultimate and it did successfully activate in Windows 11 and I also installed SP3 for it. I read an article that mentioned that MS Office 2007 Ultimate (Retail) you can have installed up to two computers (one desktop and one laptop). Does this mean that purchaser of this software can't have it installed on two desktop computers?