I uninstalled Office 2000, ran a Registry cleaner and took out all Office entries I could find, and installed Office '97.

Everything worked except Access, which produced a "Microsoft Access can't start because there is no license for it on this machine" error. I was expecting this from searches I had done, though I thought cleaning the registry might have prevented it. From this Microsoft page I tried the "No Read permissions to licenses key" fix suggested for NT and Win2k, but could find nothing wrong with permissions, so I tried the "Rename a font, and then reinstall Microsoft Access" fix, which did the trick, and as far as I can see, everything is now back to normal'

I should have remembered before installing Office 2000 that new versions of Microsoft software are seldom better than what came before, and tried it out first on an old system, but I was doing a clean installation on a 'new' system, and I had the disc. I'll know better next time!

There doesn't seem to be an option in my forum profile to change the version I'm using to '97. Am I the only one?

Steve.