Is MS Office 2000 Compatible with Win XP?

[Park Hopper]

I'm about to upgrade my Win 98 SE operating system to XP Home Edition and have heard that I need to download a patch from the Microsoft Web site that will allow my MS Office Small Business 2000 to function with XP. I've looked on the MS site for such a patch but if there's one there, it's not apparent to me. Can anyone tell me if such a patch is necessary, and if so, where to get it? Thanks very much.

[jarhead]

Yes you can use it with XP, I use MS Office 97 Pro with XP Home Edition SP2. I had to edit the registry ( rename to .ocx files). But it work's great.

[Park Hopper]

Yes you can use it with XP, I use MS Office 97 Pro with XP Home Edition SP2. I had to edit the registry ( rename to .ocx files). But it work's great.
Thanks for the reply. Editing the registry, though, is scary territory for me.

[Miz]

I've run Office 2000, both Small Business and Professional editions on XP Home and on XP Pro. I haven't had any problems on either system with either version.

The "patch" you heard about may just be the Office service packs. They're not needed to run Office 2000 on XP but Microsoft recommends you get them...once you've got Office installed, that is.

[Park Hopper]

Thank you all for the responses. I'm just going to upgrade to XP and see how Office performs.