Office 2003 Standard to Office 2003 Professional ..

[Nigel]

Until recently, I have been using Office 2003 Standard .. and have now been
able to obtain a copy of Office 2003 Professional Edition as part of my
employers Home Use Programme.

Is it just a matter of installing the applications again directly from the
new Pro edition CD, and that will replace my existing Standard edition
versions with the Professional versions? (and the addition apps, such as
Access, Publisher etc).

Or, am I supposed to fully uninstall the existing installation of Office
2003 Standard, and then install Office 2003 Professional from scratch? If
doing this, wont the uninstallation affect my existing Outlook Data, mainly
address books, contacts, meetings etc? Or will that be left alone, and this
data be detected once I install the Pro version?

Any pointers or guidance would be appreciated (as I can't find a MS KB
article that covers this) as I'm looking for the easiest stable way of doing
it.

Many thanks!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's
generally cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition, restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features
for XML work that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the basic area where it helps is to keep Office
from getting 'confused' when it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to have multiple CDs handy when
doing so <g>.

==========Until recently, I have been using Office 2003 Standard .. and have now been
able to obtain a copy of Office 2003 Professional Edition as part of my
employers Home Use Programme.

Is it just a matter of installing the applications again directly from the
new Pro edition CD, and that will replace my existing Standard edition
versions with the Professional versions? (and the addition apps, such as
Access, Publisher etc).

Or, am I supposed to fully uninstall the existing installation of Office
2003 Standard, and then install Office 2003 Professional from scratch? If
doing this, wont the uninstallation affect my existing Outlook Data, mainly
address books, contacts, meetings etc? Or will that be left alone, and this
data be detected once I install the Pro version?

Any pointers or guidance would be appreciated (as I can't find a MS KB
article that covers this) as I'm looking for the easiest stable way of doing
it.

Many thanks! >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's
generally cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition, restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features
for XML work that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the basic area where it helps is to keep Office
from getting 'confused' when it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to have multiple CDs handy when
doing so <g>.

==========Until recently, I have been using Office 2003 Standard .. and have now been
able to obtain a copy of Office 2003 Professional Edition as part of my
employers Home Use Programme.

Is it just a matter of installing the applications again directly from the
new Pro edition CD, and that will replace my existing Standard edition
versions with the Professional versions? (and the addition apps, such as
Access, Publisher etc).

Or, am I supposed to fully uninstall the existing installation of Office
2003 Standard, and then install Office 2003 Professional from scratch? If
doing this, wont the uninstallation affect my existing Outlook Data, mainly
address books, contacts, meetings etc? Or will that be left alone, and this
data be detected once I install the Pro version?

Any pointers or guidance would be appreciated (as I can't find a MS KB
article that covers this) as I'm looking for the easiest stable way of doing
it.

Many thanks! >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's
generally cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition, restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features
for XML work that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the basic area where it helps is to keep Office
from getting 'confused' when it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to have multiple CDs handy when
doing so <g>.

==========Until recently, I have been using Office 2003 Standard .. and have now been
able to obtain a copy of Office 2003 Professional Edition as part of my
employers Home Use Programme.

Is it just a matter of installing the applications again directly from the
new Pro edition CD, and that will replace my existing Standard edition
versions with the Professional versions? (and the addition apps, such as
Access, Publisher etc).

Or, am I supposed to fully uninstall the existing installation of Office
2003 Standard, and then install Office 2003 Professional from scratch? If
doing this, wont the uninstallation affect my existing Outlook Data, mainly
address books, contacts, meetings etc? Or will that be left alone, and this
data be detected once I install the Pro version?

Any pointers or guidance would be appreciated (as I can't find a MS KB
article that covers this) as I'm looking for the easiest stable way of doing
it.

Many thanks! >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's
generally cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition, restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features
for XML work that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the basic area where it helps is to keep Office
from getting 'confused' when it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to have multiple CDs handy when
doing so <g>.

==========Until recently, I have been using Office 2003 Standard .. and have now been
able to obtain a copy of Office 2003 Professional Edition as part of my
employers Home Use Programme.

Is it just a matter of installing the applications again directly from the
new Pro edition CD, and that will replace my existing Standard edition
versions with the Professional versions? (and the addition apps, such as
Access, Publisher etc).

Or, am I supposed to fully uninstall the existing installation of Office
2003 Standard, and then install Office 2003 Professional from scratch? If
doing this, wont the uninstallation affect my existing Outlook Data, mainly
address books, contacts, meetings etc? Or will that be left alone, and this
data be detected once I install the Pro version?

Any pointers or guidance would be appreciated (as I can't find a MS KB
article that covers this) as I'm looking for the easiest stable way of doing
it.

Many thanks! >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's
generally cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition, restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features
for XML work that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the basic area where it helps is to keep Office
from getting 'confused' when it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to have multiple CDs handy when
doing so <g>.

==========Until recently, I have been using Office 2003 Standard .. and have now been
able to obtain a copy of Office 2003 Professional Edition as part of my
employers Home Use Programme.

Is it just a matter of installing the applications again directly from the
new Pro edition CD, and that will replace my existing Standard edition
versions with the Professional versions? (and the addition apps, such as
Access, Publisher etc).

Or, am I supposed to fully uninstall the existing installation of Office
2003 Standard, and then install Office 2003 Professional from scratch? If
doing this, wont the uninstallation affect my existing Outlook Data, mainly
address books, contacts, meetings etc? Or will that be left alone, and this
data be detected once I install the Pro version?

Any pointers or guidance would be appreciated (as I can't find a MS KB
article that covers this) as I'm looking for the easiest stable way of doing
it.

Many thanks! >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's
generally cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition, restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features
for XML work that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the basic area where it helps is to keep Office
from getting 'confused' when it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to have multiple CDs handy when
doing so <g>.

==========Until recently, I have been using Office 2003 Standard .. and have now been
able to obtain a copy of Office 2003 Professional Edition as part of my
employers Home Use Programme.

Is it just a matter of installing the applications again directly from the
new Pro edition CD, and that will replace my existing Standard edition
versions with the Professional versions? (and the addition apps, such as
Access, Publisher etc).

Or, am I supposed to fully uninstall the existing installation of Office
2003 Standard, and then install Office 2003 Professional from scratch? If
doing this, wont the uninstallation affect my existing Outlook Data, mainly
address books, contacts, meetings etc? Or will that be left alone, and this
data be detected once I install the Pro version?

Any pointers or guidance would be appreciated (as I can't find a MS KB
article that covers this) as I'm looking for the easiest stable way of doing
it.

Many thanks! >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's
generally cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition, restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features
for XML work that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the basic area where it helps is to keep Office
from getting 'confused' when it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to have multiple CDs handy when
doing so <g>.

==========Until recently, I have been using Office 2003 Standard .. and have now been
able to obtain a copy of Office 2003 Professional Edition as part of my
employers Home Use Programme.

Is it just a matter of installing the applications again directly from the
new Pro edition CD, and that will replace my existing Standard edition
versions with the Professional versions? (and the addition apps, such as
Access, Publisher etc).

Or, am I supposed to fully uninstall the existing installation of Office
2003 Standard, and then install Office 2003 Professional from scratch? If
doing this, wont the uninstallation affect my existing Outlook Data, mainly
address books, contacts, meetings etc? Or will that be left alone, and this
data be detected once I install the Pro version?

Any pointers or guidance would be appreciated (as I can't find a MS KB
article that covers this) as I'm looking for the easiest stable way of doing
it.

Many thanks! >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's
generally cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition, restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features
for XML work that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the basic area where it helps is to keep Office
from getting 'confused' when it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to have multiple CDs handy when
doing so <g>.

==========Until recently, I have been using Office 2003 Standard .. and have now been
able to obtain a copy of Office 2003 Professional Edition as part of my
employers Home Use Programme.

Is it just a matter of installing the applications again directly from the
new Pro edition CD, and that will replace my existing Standard edition
versions with the Professional versions? (and the addition apps, such as
Access, Publisher etc).

Or, am I supposed to fully uninstall the existing installation of Office
2003 Standard, and then install Office 2003 Professional from scratch? If
doing this, wont the uninstallation affect my existing Outlook Data, mainly
address books, contacts, meetings etc? Or will that be left alone, and this
data be detected once I install the Pro version?

Any pointers or guidance would be appreciated (as I can't find a MS KB
article that covers this) as I'm looking for the easiest stable way of doing
it.

Many thanks! >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's
generally cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition, restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features
for XML work that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the basic area where it helps is to keep Office
from getting 'confused' when it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to have multiple CDs handy when
doing so <g>.

==========Until recently, I have been using Office 2003 Standard .. and have now been
able to obtain a copy of Office 2003 Professional Edition as part of my
employers Home Use Programme.

Is it just a matter of installing the applications again directly from the
new Pro edition CD, and that will replace my existing Standard edition
versions with the Professional versions? (and the addition apps, such as
Access, Publisher etc).

Or, am I supposed to fully uninstall the existing installation of Office
2003 Standard, and then install Office 2003 Professional from scratch? If
doing this, wont the uninstallation affect my existing Outlook Data, mainly
address books, contacts, meetings etc? Or will that be left alone, and this
data be detected once I install the Pro version?

Any pointers or guidance would be appreciated (as I can't find a MS KB
article that covers this) as I'm looking for the easiest stable way of doing
it.

Many thanks! >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Nigel]

Bob Buckland ? typed:

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the
same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's generally
cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition,
restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in
the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features for XML work
that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the
basic area where it helps is to keep Office from getting 'confused' when
it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to
have multiple CDs handy when doing so <g>.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. Following your post, I backed up my .pst files
just to be on the safe side, uninstalled the Standard Version, rebooted,
installed the Professional edition and everything works fine (Outlook kept
all the old data, so didn't have to do a thing). Just downloaded the service
packs and other updated again too.

Thank again!

 

[Nigel]

Bob Buckland ? typed:

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the
same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's generally
cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition,
restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in
the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features for XML work
that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the
basic area where it helps is to keep Office from getting 'confused' when
it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to
have multiple CDs handy when doing so <g>.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. Following your post, I backed up my .pst files
just to be on the safe side, uninstalled the Standard Version, rebooted,
installed the Professional edition and everything works fine (Outlook kept
all the old data, so didn't have to do a thing). Just downloaded the service
packs and other updated again too.

Thank again!

 

[Nigel]

Bob Buckland ? typed:

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the
same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's generally
cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition,
restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in
the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features for XML work
that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the
basic area where it helps is to keep Office from getting 'confused' when
it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to
have multiple CDs handy when doing so <g>.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. Following your post, I backed up my .pst files
just to be on the safe side, uninstalled the Standard Version, rebooted,
installed the Professional edition and everything works fine (Outlook kept
all the old data, so didn't have to do a thing). Just downloaded the service
packs and other updated again too.

Thank again!

 

[Nigel]

Bob Buckland ? typed:

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the
same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's generally
cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition,
restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in
the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features for XML work
that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the
basic area where it helps is to keep Office from getting 'confused' when
it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to
have multiple CDs handy when doing so <g>.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. Following your post, I backed up my .pst files
just to be on the safe side, uninstalled the Standard Version, rebooted,
installed the Professional edition and everything works fine (Outlook kept
all the old data, so didn't have to do a thing). Just downloaded the service
packs and other updated again too.

Thank again!

 

[Nigel]

Bob Buckland ? typed:

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the
same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's generally
cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition,
restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in
the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features for XML work
that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the
basic area where it helps is to keep Office from getting 'confused' when
it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to
have multiple CDs handy when doing so <g>.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. Following your post, I backed up my .pst files
just to be on the safe side, uninstalled the Standard Version, rebooted,
installed the Professional edition and everything works fine (Outlook kept
all the old data, so didn't have to do a thing). Just downloaded the service
packs and other updated again too.

Thank again!

 

[Nigel]

Bob Buckland ? typed:

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the
same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's generally
cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition,
restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in
the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features for XML work
that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the
basic area where it helps is to keep Office from getting 'confused' when
it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to
have multiple CDs handy when doing so <g>.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. Following your post, I backed up my .pst files
just to be on the safe side, uninstalled the Standard Version, rebooted,
installed the Professional edition and everything works fine (Outlook kept
all the old data, so didn't have to do a thing). Just downloaded the service
packs and other updated again too.

Thank again!

 

[Nigel]

Bob Buckland ? typed:

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the
same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's generally
cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition,
restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in
the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features for XML work
that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the
basic area where it helps is to keep Office from getting 'confused' when
it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to
have multiple CDs handy when doing so <g>.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. Following your post, I backed up my .pst files
just to be on the safe side, uninstalled the Standard Version, rebooted,
installed the Professional edition and everything works fine (Outlook kept
all the old data, so didn't have to do a thing). Just downloaded the service
packs and other updated again too.

Thank again!

 

[Nigel]

Bob Buckland ? typed:

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the
same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's generally
cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition,
restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in
the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features for XML work
that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the
basic area where it helps is to keep Office from getting 'confused' when
it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to
have multiple CDs handy when doing so <g>.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. Following your post, I backed up my .pst files
just to be on the safe side, uninstalled the Standard Version, rebooted,
installed the Professional edition and everything works fine (Outlook kept
all the old data, so didn't have to do a thing). Just downloaded the service
packs and other updated again too.

Thank again!

 

[Nigel]

Bob Buckland ? typed:

Hi Nigel,

When doing a 'cross grade' (changing over to another Edition within the
same product (2003 in this case) series for MS Office it's generally
cleaner to first backup your files, uninstall the existing edition,
restart the PC then install from the new CD.

Generally you shouldn't lose any data at that point. Word and Excel in
the Professional Edition have a couple of extended features for XML work
that aren't in the Word or Excel copies in the Standard edition, but the
basic area where it helps is to keep Office from getting 'confused' when
it tries to install updates later as well as keeping you from needing to
have multiple CDs handy when doing so <g>.

Hi Bob, Thanks for the reply. Following your post, I backed up my .pst files
just to be on the safe side, uninstalled the Standard Version, rebooted,
installed the Professional edition and everything works fine (Outlook kept
all the old data, so didn't have to do a thing). Just downloaded the service
packs and other updated again too.

Thank again!