application [Office 97] hangs xp pro

have a new system AMD Athlon 3000 512 80gb and was running ok as expected until I have installed microsoft office 97 and it has been crashing ever since I have looked in event viewer and it is application I beleive it to be the office product does anyone know of any compatibilty issues whith this version?
can't see anything else as yet to what might be causing it to hang

thanks in advance

Rodger...

 

rodger - Pete's advice is good if you want to try and force Office97 to work but you may not want to.

Given how much interplay there is between any large Office Suite and your PC platform (OS & hardware) and given the very advanced age of Office97, I can easily imagine a PC where it would never play nice.

You might want to check out Open Office. Free, works with nearly all (word, spreadsheet, over 99% of documents) files created by Microsoft Office. It does well on an XP system and the price is certainly good.

 

We had Office 97 on a WindowsXP system for two years. It's important to get all the updates installed from the MS Office Update website. After updating be sure to go back and check for further updates, too!

The Open Office suite mentioned by another poster here is a very good product, and it does most of what Office XP can do. Also, it takes up less space on your hard drive if I remember correctly!