Any problems upgrading from Office 2002 to 2003?

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Change

Currently running OfficeXP Student & Teachers 2002. Desire to try
Professional Edition 2003 trial. Any problems experienced?
 
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Opinicus

Chris Schatte said:
This article desribes the products that qualify for the
Office 2003 upgrade:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?
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I know the Students & Teachers edition of Office doesn't
qualify for an upgrade. The question is, when you move on to
a "full" version of Office, what do you do? How do you do
it? Do you uninstall S&T and then install the new version?
Can you install (*not* upgrade) the new version over the S&T
version?
 
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Gordon

Change said:
Currently running OfficeXP Student & Teachers 2002. Desire to try
Professional Edition 2003 trial. Any problems experienced?
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Just be VERY careful with your Outlook pst file (if you use Outlook -
NOT Outlook Express). the Outlook 2003 pst format is not backwards
compatible, and there have been horror stories from people whose trial
has expired and then can't save their 2003 pst file as a prior-version
pst file because their version of Office 2003 doesn't function!

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Simply roll back your system to a period prior to the trial expiration,
create a 97-2002 compatible .pst file and use that. It is not like there
isn't a warning when you create the 2003 only unicode .pst file.

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Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Gordon asked:

| Change wrote:
|| Currently running OfficeXP Student & Teachers 2002. Desire to try
|| Professional Edition 2003 trial. Any problems experienced?
|
| Just be VERY careful with your Outlook pst file (if you use Outlook -
| NOT Outlook Express). the Outlook 2003 pst format is not backwards
| compatible, and there have been horror stories from people whose trial
| has expired and then can't save their 2003 pst file as a prior-version
| pst file because their version of Office 2003 doesn't function!
 
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