Re: You need Office 2003 Professional to get Data*** View

From: Mike Walsh (englantilainen_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/13/04 

Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:49:58 +0300

It's a great pity that we (i.e. the newsgroup members as a whole) didn't
spot this until far too late.

None of the beta testers including me obviously ran with anything but Office
Professional.

Thanks for the thanks and my regrets that this wasn't in the FAQ earlier.

I hope MS feel able to correct their article on the differences between WSS
and Office 2K; Office XP and Office 2003 to include this. Soon!

Mike Walsh, Helsinki, Finland

"WSS_USER" <cjroberts22@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:5376f6bd.0407130559.1ed13e65@posting.google.com...
> Having struggled, reinstalled and nearly given up, I was glad to have
> discovered a couple of posts that state Office 2003 Standard version
> only gives some of the new functionality that Microsoft promises when
> using WSS.
>
> To get full functionality (in my case, the very useful Data*** View)
> I had to uninstall my recently purchased Office 2003 Standard and go
> out and purchase Office 2003 Professional. I am now £250 poorer, but
> at least I have my data*** view.
>
> Microsoft - it wasn't clear in your Good, Better, Best document, it's
> not clear on your website.
>
> Please save others a lot of time and headache by making this more
> clear.
>
> My thanks to Mike Walsh who contributed a lot of posts on this topic
> and for adding a FAQ on his website.
>
> Chris