MS Office Upgrade Concerns

[Ron Yuen]

I want to upgrade my version of MS Office from Office 2000 to Office XP
(2003). I am on Windows 2000 now and do not intend to upgrade to XP. Is
there something else I should run after "Add Remove Programs" to ensure a
successful installation of Office XP? Registry cleanup? Are there any
precautions to do prior to upgrading? Will I have any file compatibility
issues? Will I loose any data by upgrading to this version of Office? Thank
you for your expertise.

-Ron

 

[Gyorgy Moldova [MCSE+I, MVP]]

Erm. you shouldn't face anything. When you launch the setup for Office XP
then it will automatically start the uninstall for Office 2000 (at least for
the applications you chosen to remove)

hth
g

 

[Michael Bednarek]

I want to upgrade my version of MS Office from Office 2000 to Office XP
(2003). I am on Windows 2000 now and do not intend to upgrade to XP. Is
there something else I should run after "Add Remove Programs" to ensure a
successful installation of Office XP? Registry cleanup? Are there any
precautions to do prior to upgrading? Will I have any file compatibility
issues? Will I loose any data by upgrading to this version of Office? Thank
you for your expertise.

Let's get the version numbers straight (omitting Macintosh versions):
MS Office 9 = 2000
MS Office 10 = XP
MS Office 11 = 2003 (current)

Office-11 will not run on Win4 (95/98) systems, Windows 2000 (aka NT5.0)
is fine - no need to upgrade to WinXP (NT5.1).

The upgrade from MS Office V-9 to V-11 is rather painless. You should
lose none of your documents, and most settings will be preserved. Even
better, you can select to keep the current installation (except for
Outlook which can exist in only one version).

The installation of V-11 will also delete the MS Photo Editor; you can
make a copy of its directory (usually C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\PhotoEd\) and put it back after the installation,
or re-install it, and it alone, from the V-9 installation media.

Some VBA code might refuse to run initially until you sort out the
changed References. We also had some Word documents from V-9 which
simply refused to be opened by V-11; that's why I recommend to keep the
V-9 installation.

Outlook-11 has many new features that need getting used to. If using
against an Exchange server it is absolutely necessary to have a working
DNS configuration.

That's all I can think of right now - others may have further points.