upgrade question

[Matthew]

My boss wants to switch from 2003 to 2007 but he purchased a full version of
the software instead of just an update version. Should I just back up the
Outlook data files, uninstall 2003 then install 2007 and restore the data
files? Will this keep all of his Outlook files intact? I'm assuming that
Outlook will present the only problem and that all 2003 file versions of the
other apps will work just fine in 2007...

Thanks

 

[DL]

I assume your data is all backed up anyway.
Pop the 2007 cd in, once it runs it will give you the option to upgrade the
earlier version Office (entirely)
(and that assumes he purchased the correct version of Office2007, there are
several)

 

[Matthew]

I assume your data is all backed up anyway.
Pop the 2007 cd in, once it runs it will give you the option to upgrade
the earlier version Office (entirely)
(and that assumes he purchased the correct version of Office2007, there
are several)

um....sure... my files are backed up.... ;-)

well that's why I asked... it doesn't say anything about updating... it just
seems to want to install.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Outlook is different. You can only have one version of Outlook installed at
a time. If 2003 is still present, 2007 will not install.

 

[bxb7668]

In my experience this is incorrect. When I upgraded from 2003 to 2007
it replaced Outlook 2003 with 2007.

Brian

Outlook is different. You can only have one version of Outlook
installed at a time. If 2003 is still present, 2007 will not
install.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

I assume your data is all backed up anyway.
Pop the 2007 cd in, once it runs it will give you the option to
upgrade the earlier version Office (entirely)
(and that assumes he purchased the correct version of Office2007,
there are several)

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Then something has changed.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

In my experience this is incorrect. When I upgraded from 2003 to 2007 it
replaced Outlook 2003 with 2007.

Brian

Outlook is different. You can only have one version of Outlook installed
at a time. If 2003 is still present, 2007 will not install.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

I assume your data is all backed up anyway.
Pop the 2007 cd in, once it runs it will give you the option to upgrade
the earlier version Office (entirely)
(and that assumes he purchased the correct version of Office2007, there
are several)

My boss wants to switch from 2003 to 2007 but he purchased a full
version of the software instead of just an update version. Should I
just back up the Outlook data files, uninstall 2003 then install 2007
and restore the data files? Will this keep all of his Outlook files
intact? I'm assuming that Outlook will present the only problem and
that all 2003 file versions of the other apps will work just fine in
2007...

Thanks

 

[Wanda]

Outlook is different. You can only have one version of Outlook installed at
a time. If 2003 is still present, 2007 will not install.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

I assume your data is all backed up anyway.
Pop the 2007 cd in, once it runs it will give you the option to upgrade
the earlier version Office (entirely)
(and that assumes he purchased the correct version of Office2007, there
are several)