Upgrading to Office XP Professional

[lindzog]

Consideration is being given to updating from Office 2000 Professional to
Office XP Professional. To do this does one need to uninstall Office 2000 Pro
first? If so how? Dont see any uninstall option in Add Remove programs.
Am I right in thinking all the Contacts and Outlook emails should remain and
be transfered with the Office XP install?
tks for any advice...

 

[Anne Troy]

First off, I wouldn't bother paying for XP if you've already got 2000. I'd
wait and get Office 12, which should be out sometime in the near future.

Secondly, see:
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/best_install_procedures_for_microsoft_office.htm
and
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/remove_microsoft_office_from_your_pc.htm
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Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[lindzog]

thanks anne but its already purchased.

First off, I wouldn't bother paying for XP if you've already got 2000. I'd
wait and get Office 12, which should be out sometime in the near future.

Secondly, see:
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/best_install_procedures_for_microsoft_office.htm
and
http://www.officearticles.com/misc/remove_microsoft_office_from_your_pc.htm
************
Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

 

[lindzog]

Thanks for the URLs but what I really want to know is the normal way of
removing and installing Office. There appears to be no uninstall in the
software. The features with XP office seem an improvement and I wish to
install it without there being any conflict with 2000

 

[Echo S]

If you go to Start|Control Panel|Add-Remove Programs, you don't have a
"Remove" button when you click Microsoft Office 2000 in the list? I just
checked, and that's what I see here.

 

[lindzog]

tks echo. I can confirm that on selecting the program in Add Remove programs,
there is NO REMOVE or UNINSTALL option for our version of Office 2000 Pro.
Also, there are a number of updates listed below, which all say, this update
cannot be uninstalled. I guess I could just try overwriting with the new XP
version but dont know if it will go smoothly.

 

[lindzog]

HI. I resolved this. Ive been trying to put a post here for more than a week
but I kept getting a message saying "Service Temporarily Unavailable."

Anyway what I did was run Detect and Repair on my Office 2000 Pro. It then
restored the REmove function to Office in my Add/Remove programs. I was then
able to uninstall 2000 and install the new Office XP. Its ok but there are
some features I dont like so much. Some people say 2003 is better??

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

HI. I resolved this. Ive been trying to put a post here for more
than a week but I kept getting a message saying "Service
Temporarily Unavailable."

Just a suggestion, but you'll be MUCH happier if you use a newsreader
to read newsgroups. It's easy to configure Outlook Express as a
newsreader (the help files will tell you how) and there are quite a few
other newsreaders available.

 

[lindzog]

David

tks for the info. I have to do something else because I got the Service
Temporarily Unavailable again today and had to manually navigate my way here.
Can I do the newsgroup thing from Outlook? Not using OE much these days...

 

[David R. Norton MVP]

David

tks for the info. I have to do something else because I got the
Service Temporarily Unavailable again today and had to manually
navigate my way here. Can I do the newsgroup thing from Outlook?
Not using OE much these days...

Yes, sort of, maybe, not really! Read on:

Open Outlook. Click on "Help" and type in Newsgroups. One of the help
topics will be "Start the newsgroup reader" or something like that and
it will show you how to add "News" to your "Go" menu. Then when you've
done that, click on News in the GO menu and...... OE will start! Now
you have to configure a newsgroup, enter msnews.microsoft.com for the
newsserver and OE will begin by retrieving a list of MS newsgroups, you
can subscribe to this one and any others you'd like to follow.

If your ISP offers newsgroups you'll find instructions on how to set up
OE to read their newsgroups on your ISP's website.

 

[lindzog]

tks. ill check that all out.
Im not sure i like this new Office XP. When I look at sent items , it doesnt
show me the addresses of the people ive sent them to. that's really
irritating.