Office 2007 Upgrade Question

K

kcoakley

I've just purchased the Office 2007 Professional Upgrade and would like to
know if I can keep my current Office 2003 installation intact and have both
editions running on my computer at the same time.

Thanks for any guidance or comments.

Sincerely,
Ken
 
J

jimmuh

You may find an answer to your question in the End User License Agreement
that came with your Office 2007 Professional Upgrade.

What I'm concerned about is WHY you want to do this. I know that there are
some people out there who have gone through the trouble of running more than
one Office version on their systems, but I cannot for the life of me figure
out why. AFAIK the ability of Office 2007 to save in the older formats
obviates the need for having the older version(s) installed. And you will
probably be a LOT happier running just one Office version -- especially when
updating and doing other maintenance on the Office installations.

You may well be smart enough to do this and get away with it. I'm not. And
neither is anyone else that I know.

;-)
 
K

kcoakley

Thanks for the reply, JoAnn. I was afraid that would be the case.

If I wanted to, could I choose to just upgrade all the apps except Excel?

Thanks again,
Ken

JoAnn Paules said:
Sorry, an upgrade supersedes the previous version. To do what you want, you
need a full license for 2007.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


kcoakley said:
I've just purchased the Office 2007 Professional Upgrade and would like to
know if I can keep my current Office 2003 installation intact and have
both
editions running on my computer at the same time.

Thanks for any guidance or comments.

Sincerely,
Ken
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K

kcoakley

That's a fair question.

I'm concerned because I distribute, on a monthly basis, numerous Excel files
with PivotTables and a lot of VBA code. I don't have the time to test all the
code with the new version right now and I'm worried that the export to a
prior Excel version might not be perfect. (None of the users have upgraded to
Excel 2007 yet.)

So while I need access to Office 2007 for various reasons, I also need to be
sure that my existing Excel files and processes will continue to work
flawlessly.

Sincerely,
Ken
 
J

jimmuh

Makes sense. I wind up doing a lot of stuff I normally wouldn't do because of
considerations like this, too. But I'm not as brave as you are. I'd probably
install the previous version on its own virtual machine.

Good luck!
 
J

jimmuh

Just kibitzing here. If you can make a partial upgrade of Office work, then,
in my estimation, you will have eclipsed Einstein.

As I suggested in my other reply, as long as you get the licensing issues
resolved, you might be better off installing the earlier version of Office in
its own VM. That should be MUCH safer.

kcoakley said:
Thanks for the reply, JoAnn. I was afraid that would be the case.

If I wanted to, could I choose to just upgrade all the apps except Excel?

Thanks again,
Ken

JoAnn Paules said:
Sorry, an upgrade supersedes the previous version. To do what you want, you
need a full license for 2007.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


kcoakley said:
I've just purchased the Office 2007 Professional Upgrade and would like to
know if I can keep my current Office 2003 installation intact and have
both
editions running on my computer at the same time.

Thanks for any guidance or comments.

Sincerely,
Ken
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Don MI

kcoakley said:
I've just purchased the Office 2007 Professional Upgrade and would like to
know if I can keep my current Office 2003 installation intact and have
both
editions running on my computer at the same time.

Thanks for any guidance or comments.

Sincerely,
Ken
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When I installed Office 2007 Professional Upgrade, the installation program
had an option to retain or remove the prior Office version. Outlook 2007
does require the removal of prior versions of Outlook.

Don
 
B

Beth Melton

If that's the reason why then you really should install one of the versions
on a virtual machine. In a side-by-side installation, the newest version
will take over shared components, including the Object Library. I'd use
Compatibility Mode before using a side-by-side installation in your
situation.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Co-author of Word 2007 Inside Out:
http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/books/9801.aspx#AboutTheBook

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
 
K

kcoakley

Thank you everyone for your replies and suggestions.

In the end, I WAS given the option to leave my existing Office applications
(except Outlook) installed. I chose that option and everything seems to be
working fine so far.

Thanks again,
Ken
 
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