I've had Office 97 since 1997 and have been happy with it, however, since many documents I receive have been done on newer versions of Office, I decided to buy Microsoft Office Home & Student. My other reason is that I have recently purchased a laptop that doesn't have a word processing program so I figured I would buy the newer version because the salesman assured me that I could legally run the new version on both of my computers, but Office 97 cannot be run legally on both computers. Since I have thousands of documents done with Office 97 I am wondering how well these documents will open on the newer version? The salesman at Staples said that the two programs would run along side each other and that I didn't have to delete Office 97 from my system. Is this true? And will they play nice together? I also have more than a few documents on floppies that were made with Word Perfect in 1995. Will I have a problem opening these in the newer version of Office? And yes, I still have 2 floppy drives on my computer that I had built about 4 years ago. I never have much luck putting stuff on re-writeable cds and then getting them to open again and do changes. I have an external hard drive instead. Thanks for your time.