It is entirely up to you. Do you still need anything in the office 2000 suite? If not, then just upgrade.
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After furious head scratching, suz4596 asked:
| If I'm buying a new 2003 and not the upgrade, should I say yes when
| it offers to upgrade or ignore that?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| If you want to, not necessary but it will offer to upgrade when you
|| put in the CD.
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|| After furious head scratching, suz4596 asked:
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||| If I want to put the Office 2003 on a desktop and a lap top, do I
||| have to remove the existing Office 2000 from each one before I
||| download the new 2003?
|||
||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|||
|||| You will need to get the Office Professional then - or have your
|||| daughter bring home the CD she used to install at school. Student
|||| and Teacher Edition is Office Standard re-branded to allow for
|||| additional installations. Office Professional has additional
|||| programs in the suite that do not come with Office Standard/Student
|||| Teacher's Edition.
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|||| After furious head scratching, suz4596 asked:
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||||| Now I'm a little confused - I want to replace Office 2000, Small
||||| Business with 2003 Pro for my daughter at home, which is what they
||||| use at her school. Is the academic version and the student/teacher
||||| version the same as the "regular" 2003? There is a large price
||||| difference between all three, but I want to purchase the one that
||||| will be the same as the Office 2003 Professional that is on the
||||| computers at her school. Thanks, Suzi
|||||
||||| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
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|||||| Yes, the academic version is only available to qualified students
|||||| at the institution where this suite is sold. If you mean the
|||||| Student and Teacher version, it is only for non-commercial use.
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|||||| After furious head scratching, suz4596 asked:
||||||
||||||| One more question -I went price searching and saw there is
||||||| Office 2003 Pro and also an Academic edition, which is less $.
||||||| Is there a diference other than price? Thanks Again, Suzi
|||||||
||||||| "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
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|||||||| You would probably be okay with the upgrade but Murphy's Law
|||||||| says that something is going to happen that requires you to
|||||||| use that product key. (I don't know what but "stuff happens".)
||||||||
|||||||| *If* it's within your budget, get the full version of Office -
|||||||| and make sure you know where that key is. If you do opt for
|||||||| that, get it from Amazon.com. Might as well save a few dollars
|||||||| on your purchase. They frequently offer free shipping, which is
|||||||| very nice.
||||||||
|||||||| Also, make sure you check out the various editions of Office so
|||||||| that you get what you need. Why pay for products you have no
|||||||| need for?
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|||||||| JoAnn Paules
|||||||| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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|||||||| How to ask a question
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http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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||||||||
|||||||| ||||||||| You have been so incredibly helpful. Since I don't have the
||||||||| product key for
||||||||| 2000, would you still suggest I go with the upgrade for 2003
||||||||| Pro or should I
||||||||| buy the whole program? You can probably tell from my questions
||||||||| that this is
||||||||| not ny area of expertise!
|||||||||
||||||||| "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
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|||||||||| You shouldn't. The product key would be nice but that's on a
|||||||||| sticker on the
|||||||||| CD sleeve your disks came in originally. If you can find
|||||||||| that, keep it handy
|||||||||| as well. There are programs that can find the product key for
|||||||||| Office XP and
|||||||||| up but not 2000. Microsoft can't help you with OEM software
|||||||||| and Gateway won't help with a product key, especially one
|||||||||| from that far back.
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|||||||||| JoAnn Paules
|||||||||| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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|||||||||| How to ask a question
||||||||||
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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||||||||||
|||||||||| message
||||||||||
||||||||||| tHANKS FOR YOUR HELP - I do have the 2 disks for Microsoft
||||||||||| Office 2000 -
||||||||||| Small Business. To upgrade will I need any type of
||||||||||| registration numbers from
||||||||||| these old disks? If I do I have no idea where to find them.
||||||||||| I looked through
||||||||||| all the paper work from Gateway and it doesn't have anything
||||||||||| about the specific program. Suzi
|||||||||||
||||||||||| "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
|||||||||||
|||||||||||| If you can find it, yes. And do yourself a HUGE favor - DO
|||||||||||| NOT LOSE THAT
|||||||||||| OFFICE 2000 CD. (I'm not yelling - I'm strongly emphasizing
|||||||||||| the need to
|||||||||||| know
|||||||||||| exactly where that disk is because without it, you will be
|||||||||||| up a famous creek
|||||||||||| without a paddle. You can upgrade and upgrade and upgrade
|||||||||||| and each time
|||||||||||| you
|||||||||||| need to prove that something "way back when" you had a full
|||||||||||| version.)
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|||||||||||| JoAnn Paules
|||||||||||| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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|||||||||||| How to ask a question
||||||||||||
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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|||||||||||| message
|||||||||||| ||||||||||||| The Office 2000 that is on our Gateway came with the
||||||||||||| system when we purchased
||||||||||||| it, can I still buy just the upgrade for Office Pro 2003?
|||||||||||||
||||||||||||| "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
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|||||||||||||| You cannot purchase an academic student unless you are a
|||||||||||||| qualified purchaser. As it is, you may find it difficult
|||||||||||||| to find a 2003 version
|||||||||||||| now
|||||||||||||| that 2007 is the latest. To get the best match, try to
|||||||||||||| find the Office
|||||||||||||| Pro
|||||||||||||| 2003 upgrade.
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|||||||||||||| JoAnn Paules
|||||||||||||| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
||||||||||||||
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|||||||||||||| How to ask a question
||||||||||||||
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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|||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||| We have Office 2000 Small Business on our home computer.
||||||||||||||| At school
||||||||||||||| they
||||||||||||||| are
||||||||||||||| using Office 2003 Professional. I want to upgrade what
||||||||||||||| we have at home
||||||||||||||| so
||||||||||||||| it's easier for my daughter to transition from what she
||||||||||||||| does at school
||||||||||||||| to
||||||||||||||| the
||||||||||||||| computer here at home. What are my options, do I have to
||||||||||||||| purchase the
||||||||||||||| Pro
||||||||||||||| edition or can I purchase the Academic version or the
||||||||||||||| Student version?
||||||||||||||| Thanks
