Hi, Lloyd.
Lloyd said:
Hi:
I currently have Office 2000 on my Win 98 computer and would like to
install Office XP Professional on top of it.
Will the default directories for my PowerPoint 2000 data files remain
in the same directories (folders)?
You're talking about the installation directories, right? Not the
folders where your presentations and other files are?
Assuming installation directories locations, I'm not sure, but I think
they may be in the same place by default. To be safe, I'd recommend
doing a custom install and choosing to install Office XP into a
different folder. So, for instance, if Office 2000 is installed in
C:\Program Files\MS Office, I'd install Office XP to something like
C:\Program Files\Office XP. You'll have the option to change that path
when you do the custom install.
And another assumption -- that's assuming that you want to install
Office XP alongside Office 2000. If not, you can still use the custom
install and put Office XP in the same place that Office 2000 was. I'd
first uninstall Office 2000 myself instead of letting Office XP do it
for me, though.
Over the years I kept many pictures, sounds, and animations in the
Clip Gallery version 5.0. I understand that Office XP uses a
different system called Clip Organizer. Will Office XP recognize the
Clip Gallery items on my hard drive that worked with my MS Office 2000
program?
Yes, Clip Organizer will recognize the Clip Gallery items you already
have (you'll have to make Clip Organizer find them after you install
it), but it won't recognize the keywords and catalogs those older clips
have. (I know, I know, don't shoot the messenger!)
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=kb;EN-US;Q281858 is not terribly
well worded wrt the fact that the keywords won't be recognized, but it
does tell how to have Organizer add your old clips. (It specifies
"user-defined clips," but the upshot is that you'd have to add all the
keywords manually into the Clip Organizer.)
To work around this, assuming that you intend to uninstall Office 2000
before installing Office XP, you could just not uninstall the Clip
Gallery when you do the uninstall. Put your Office 2000 install CDs in,
do an add/remove, and remove everything else.
Or you could try to make sure that Office XP doesn't remove your Clip
Gallery when it installs. I don't think that's a specific option in the
custom install, though, so you'd probably have to tell Office XP not to
uninstall PPT and Word 2000 in order to keep Clip Gallery. Even then, I
can't guarantee that would keep Clip Gallery.
Or probably easiest is to go ahead and uninstall all of Office 2000,
install Office XP, and then install Clip Gallery using a custom install
of Office 2000. I've been told that you should be able to install the
old Clip Gallery alongside Office XP (and the new Clip Organizer) with
no problems.
I intend to do the full installation. Are there any other PowerPoint
issues I should be aware of?
I would recommend uninstalling Office 2000 and running a registry eraser
before installing Office XP. See
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00297.htm for erasers. But that's
just me. Office XP does uninstall Office 2000 if you want it to, but I
don't know how "clean" a job it does.
If you're considering installing Office XP alongside Office 2000, know
that if you use Outlook, you can't have two versions of Outlook on your
system.
There are sometimes issues with Office XP service pack 2 and Norton
AntiVirus. See
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q328613
Disabling the NAV Office plug-in corrects this, though.
If you have lots of old Organization charts in your presentations, you
may run into trouble there.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=293615
has specifics.
I'm sure there's other stuff, but that's all I can think of right now.