Yes, you can. We've used Office 97 on XP here at work for over a year now.

"whitedog" wrote:

I had Microsoft Office 97 on my old computer operating on Windows 95. My new
computer has Microsoft Works and uses Windows XP. It will not read my Office
97 Excel files from my old computer. I have the Office 97 cd. Can i install
this on my new computer with Windows XP?