Pictures within PowerPoint slides are not discarded and still render properly, albeit slowly. On my 500 MHz Pentium III machine, it took a good 5 minutes to open a 12-slide Powerpoint file with mostly graphics. XLSX and PPTX documents work fine too, although complicated PowerPoint documents might take a long time to open. The original document looks something like this on the latest version of Microsoft Word: Finally, from the Go-oo 2.4.1 folder, run the following command App\openoffice\program\setofficelang.exe -f en-USĪfter restarting Go-oo, the user interface language has been successfully changed to English! Most DOCX documents can now be opened with no issues, although certain graphics may be lost: Take note that resource file names should end with the language code, e.g. I then copied all English language resource files from the official version to the same folder in the Chinese version. As there was no menu option to change the language to English, I investigated the possibility of doing so manually by installing Open Office 2.4.1 portable English version and then using Total Commander to compare the directory structure between the English version of Open Office 2.4.1 and the Chinese version of Go-oo 2.4.1. The only major difference that I noticed is the language resource files located in the App\openoffice\program\resource folder. The mirror link that I found does not work and only version 3 is available on most download sites.Īfter a lot of efforts I found a Chinese version of Go-oo 2.4.1 which is able to run on Windows 98 and open DOCX files just fine. The last version to support Windows 98 is 2.4.1, but a working download link is very hard to find. This seemed like a dead end until I came across Go-oo, a discontinued free office suite forked from Open Office that runs on Windows 98 with limited support for Office 2007 file types.
OpenOffice 2, on the other hand, supports Windows 98 but does not open DOCX file.
It is known that Open Office only began supporting Office 2007 documents since version 3, which does not work on Windows 98 without installing things such as KernelEx and introducing instabilities into the system. I concluded that Microsoft Office was not the solution and proceeded to find better alternatives. DOCX documents will result in raw binary contents being displayed in the Microsoft Word window. With this, the compatibility pack installed successfully but attempting to open any. Because the compatibility pack refused to install on Windows 98, I extracted the MSI from the setup files using 7Zip and use ORCA to modify the installer to remove the OS version check. On my old but trusted Windows 98 laptop, which is used mostly for DOS and early Windows games, there is an occasional need to view Office 2007 documents such as DOCX. The last version of Microsoft Office that supports Windows 98 is Office XP, which is supported by Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack, also know as File Format Converter.
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