Installation Error -- NOT

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Bill Martin

A long time back I installed Office 2003 on my machine and all went well. I
was a bit nervous initially and so also kept Office 97 installed in case I
needed to go back and forth which it turned out that I did not.

Anyhow, yesterday I was doing some housekeeping and decided I no longer need
Office97 chewing up disk space as I never use it. So I deleted it in the
proper way and all seemed well. Unfortunately I now have XP badgering me
for the Office 2003 install disk because it wants to "help" me by somehow
changing around the way the program is installed.

I most certainly, emphatically, do not want the existing installation
tinkered with as it works well as is. So I keep telling it to cancel the
install but some hours later it will pop up again insistently demanding that
I go through the install process.

Can anyone tell me how to drive a stake through it's heart? I just want my
installation to be left alone.

Thanks.

Bill
 
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Nick Hodge

Bill

Just insert the CD and let it go through it's process, it will not change
anything. Un-installing 97 likely un-installed some shared components that
2003 is trying to put back with the most up-to-date.

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HTH
Nick Hodge
Microsoft MVP - Excel
Southampton, England
[email protected]
www.nickhodge.co.uk
 
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Bill Martin

Thanks for the advice Nick. I went ahead and did as you said. And of
course the &^%$ system changed things around on me. Fortunately it left
Excel untouched, but somehow deep in the system insists that I want to use
Outlook for my email now -- whether I want it or not. Anytime I click on an
email address somewhere the Microsoft Office 2003 installer starts barking
at me to set up an Outlook mail account which I will not do.

Eventually I'll figure this out too, but grumble, grumble...

Thanks Nick.

Bill
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