does office 2003 require SVGA or is VGA OK? steveng[ at ]sonic.net 5/27/2007 9:35:02 PM I'm going to buy my 83-year-old mother and computer junky and new desktop system. I want to go with XP Pro and Office 2003. System requirements for Office 2003 say I need an SVGA monitor. All the good, flat-screen, cheap ones are VGA. Do I really need SVGA to run Office 2003? Is there and adapter or work-around? Or is it all marketing bull-bleep and VGA is just fine? I'm going to try to put the system together and get it to her in about a week - 10 days, so I could really use some help quickly. Just a simple "yes, VGA will work" or "Nope, you're stuck with SVGA" will do the trick. Thanks much in advance. sg

Re: does office 2003 require SVGA or is VGA OK? "JoAnn Paules" <jl_paules[ at ]hotmail.com> 5/27/2007 11:17:48 PM Where do you see anything about SVGA? All the specs state is "1024x768 or higher resolution monitor". http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/HA101668651033.aspx -- JoAnn Paules Microsoft MVP - Publisher How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 "steveng[ at ]sonic.net" <steveng[ at ]sonic.net[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C4E2189B-E276-4BD4-92F0-029BBEE6B059[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > I'm going to buy my 83-year-old mother and computer junky and new desktop > system. I want to go with XP Pro and Office 2003. System requirements > for > Office 2003 say I need an SVGA monitor. All the good, flat-screen, cheap > ones are VGA. Do I really need SVGA to run Office 2003? Is there and > adapter or work-around? Or is it all marketing bull-bleep and VGA is just > fine? > > I'm going to try to put the system together and get it to her in about a > week - 10 days, so I could really use some help quickly. Just a simple > "yes, > VGA will work" or "Nope, you're stuck with SVGA" will do the trick. > > Thanks much in advance. > > sg