Install Home/Student 2007 - Must uninstall MS Office 97 Professional?

[Won Dampchin]

I want to install Home/Student 2007 on my computer which has MS Office 97
installed for years. Can I just install the 2007 without uninstalling the
97? Will there be conflicts?

TIA
Regards...

 

[JoAnn Paules]

You should be just fine. Make sure you read each dialog box carefully during
the installation. If you just click your way thru, it will overwrite your
older software. One of the options will be to upgrade - you don't want that.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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[Mary Sauer]

What OS do you have? Be aware you may lose some functions you are use to having
in Office 97. The Clip Gallery may become useless. Office 2007 comes with the
Organizer which is not compatible with the Gallery. You may have problems
accessing your help files in Office 97. The 97 Wizards may not work if the
Gallery isn't working, there is a dependency there.

 

[Won Dampchin]

I want to install Home/Student 2007 on my computer which has MS
Office 97 installed for years. Can I just install the 2007 without
uninstalling the 97? Will there be conflicts?

TIA
Regards...

Thank you JoAnn and Mary. My OS is WinXP Professional (up-to-date). There
seems to be a difference of opinion as to whether my Office 97 will or will
not lose some functionality. I really don't access the clip art gallery
often (I use MS Publisher 2004 and usually surf the internet for needed
graphics), and don't use the 97 Powerpoint or Access, so I don't see a good
reason not to just install 2007 and leave 97 as is.

Thank you for your help again.
Regards...

 

[selena]

It would be best to uninstall MS Office 97 through control panel and then
install Home/Student 2007.

Now, by installing 2007, it might over ride the old program but I don't
think so. If you don't uninstall MS Office 97, and install MS Office
Home/Student 2007... you are going to have two seperate programs installed on
your hard drive taking up space.

So uninstall the old program. You are not going to be using it anyway.

Selena

 

[selena]

I understand... That is your call if you want to leave the old version of
Office on your computer and install Office 2007.

How ever; the old program will just take up more space on your hard drive
espeically if you are not going to utilize Office 97. Everying you need
should be in MS Office Home/Student 2007. If not; do what you need to do and
see.

Selena