Win10 and win 7 question

Office 2003 is no longer allowed to be activated. Only 2007 to 2016/365 can be activated. Anything else that you are running on Windows 7 may or may not work. Only you will find out by trial and error.

You cannot run Widows from an External USB drive. You can however, run your programs from that drive as they still have access to the Windows Registry on the Windows 7 system.
It is time to update Office, 2003 is 13 years ago.

Roehrle said:

There isn't any question that Office 2003 will work on win10 because I had it working on my computer with win10. As to time to get a new Office , you must be a stock holder. There are scores of people who prefer Office 2003 to the new version. If you are interested I can give you a link where people talk about how they love their 2003 version of Office. To them it's the the best version of Office yet. To make more money MS keeps putting out new version with lots of stuff people don't need. I'll get 2003 to work some how because I know it can work.
MS may stop supporting versions but the programs will still work.

People love old cars but they are still usually crap in performance and especially safety features compared to modern cars. Old versions of office have more security holes than swiss cheese.

In any case, first time you get some important work and sent some office files you cannot open, then you would have to upgrade.

I used have used Word since it initial release way back in time, and frankly old versions are not a patch on the modern versions. Even 2010 feels dated compared with 2016.

Some things are worth spending money on to upgrade - Office is definitely one of them.

You can always create a virtual hard drive or virtual machine with windows 7 just to run a really dated version of office.

If you only want to use the basic 2003 features, you would be better off instaling a free word clone like Libre Office which is guaranteed to work on Windows 10.

I recently D/led Open Office and it seems to read my programs but won't operate the macro's. I have used the lowest protection but they still won't work.

Roehrle said:

I recently D/led Open Office and it seems to read my programs put won't operate the micro's. I have used the lowest protection but they still won't work.

Libre Office is better.

No idea what you are talking about in sentence above!

Roehrle said:

Sorry.. I should have written Macro's , not micro's

Ah - sorry I should have realised. Cannot help.