I also have Office 2000 premium. I have not had any problems. All of the programs open just fine.
But just as it was mention before, you must have the original disk to make it work.
Mar 08, 2008 Rating
Excel Word and Office 2000 work in Vista by: Anonymous
They should work. I just bought a new HP computer last month and installed Office 2000 premium (from the original disks I had for my old computer with Windows ME). Office 2000 has both Excel 2000 and Word 2000 as part of the package. The only problem I have is that I cannot open Word documents by clicking on them. I can open Word and then open them as a file. I think it is due to Windows Vista security protocol. EXCEL is just fine. When I can get around to it there are Microsoft service packs and security updates that may take care of it.
You are going to need original disks.