? Install Office 97

[DaveBobW]

I recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium; I put Office 97 onto it and then
upgraded to 2007.

The full version I have of Office is Office 97 and I have bought upgrades
since.

While the Office 2007 upgrade works fine on the PC I would like to uninstall
the Office 97 as the icons are still there on the start menu etc; can I do
this or do I have to leave the 'full' version on the PC?

Thanks,

Dave W

 

[Peter Foldes]

I do not understand something. How were you able to use an Office 2007 Upgrade
version using Office97 as a qualifying product.

 

[DL]

Uninstall any earlier versions

You dont have to install the earlier version in order to install an upgrade
version.
You commence the install of the upgrade, when it complains that it cannot
find a qualifying product, you swap the cd's, verify the qualifying product,
re swap the cd's and continue with your upgrade.

As it is office pre 2003 is not compatible with Vista, so you may have
problems with uninstalling any earlier version, particularly O97. So after
uninstalling any earlier versions of Office you may have to perform a repair
of 2007 version

 

[DaveBobW]

Sorry Peter, I forgot to mention: I was so eager to install Office 97 I
didn't notice that Office Home & Student 2007 was already bundled on the
PC - this is what was eligible for the upgrade, I guess.

I am going to try to remove the Office 97.

Regards,

David

I am

 

[LVTravel]

I recently upgraded to Vista Home Premium; I put Office 97 onto it and
then upgraded to 2007.

The full version I have of Office is Office 97 and I have bought upgrades
since.

While the Office 2007 upgrade works fine on the PC I would like to
uninstall the Office 97 as the icons are still there on the start menu
etc; can I do this or do I have to leave the 'full' version on the PC?

Thanks,

Dave W

As some have already said, Office 97 is not a qualifying upgrade product for
Office '07. Neither is the trial version of '07. I would suspect that you
have Microsoft Works on the new computer which was used as the qualifier for
Office '07. If you can find the disk for that product, put it with the
Office '07 install media. If you ever have to reinstall Office '07 you will
need the Works (or whatever other qualifying media) at that time.

 

[DaveBobW]

I've now uninstalled 97 and done the repair facility with 2007. It allseems
OK, but I'm puzzled why Access 2007 works if I have not had that on
previously. Not that I'm complaining, you understand.....

Regards,

Dave W
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[DaveBobW]

Thanks - I remember asking this 10 years ago in a store and got the opposite
answer.

Best Wishes,

Dave W

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[LVTravel]

I've now uninstalled 97 and done the repair facility with 2007. It
allseems OK, but I'm puzzled why Access 2007 works if I have not had that
on previously. Not that I'm complaining, you understand.....

Regards,

Dave W

When you purchase any upgrade product the full purchased package is usable
even if you only have one part of the qualifying program. So if you
purchase a suite that has programs A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H but the
qualifier for the suite includes program A then you will be able to use all
programs (A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H) That is the benefit of having a simple
qualifying program or suite like Microsoft Works and then buying the full
upgrade package of a better suite.

 

[LVTravel]

Thanks - I remember asking this 10 years ago in a store and got the
opposite answer.

Best Wishes,

Dave W

Ten years ago that was essentially true. Times progress and thing do
change. Before Office 2007 you couldn't use a lower version of Office to
qualify for an upscale upgrade version of Office. For example Office 2000
SBE to 2000 Pro. With Office 2007 you can use any purchased version of
Office 2007 to upgrade to a more complete version of Office 2007, including
using the Home and Student version. For example Office standard to Office
Ultimate. All programs in the Ultimate version will be "enabled" once the
upgrade is installed.

 

[DaveBobW]

That makes a lot of sense. It's just as well there was Office Home and
Student installed on the PC as otherwise I would have had to buy a full
version; my full version was Office 97 and I had upgrades after that.

Regards,

David W