I'm trying to install Office 97 upgrade to xp

[Guest]

I'm can't install this Office 97 upgrade on my xp because I don't have any
office software installed. When I bought Office back in 1999 I thought I
bought the standard edition but I now realize its not so. Can someone tell me
how to install this Office 97 upgrade to my computer.
Thank you,
Macc

 

[Gordon]

I'm can't install this Office 97 upgrade on my xp because I don't have any
office software installed. When I bought Office back in 1999 I thought I
bought the standard edition but I now realize its not so. Can someone tell me
how to install this Office 97 upgrade to my computer.
Thank you,
Macc

If it's an upgrade CD and you don't have a qualifying product you have
two choices - get a qualifying product (Ebay) or buy a full version. Period.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

You won't be able to since it is an upgrade version and you
have no previous Microsoft Office product to upgrade from.

Time to go out and purchase Microsoft Office 2003.

Learn how to acquire Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/standard.mspx

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| I'm can't install this Office 97 upgrade on my xp because I don't have any
| office software installed. When I bought Office back in 1999 I thought I
| bought the standard edition but I now realize its not so. Can someone tell me
| how to install this Office 97 upgrade to my computer.
| Thank you,
| Macc
| --
| macc

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Find a qualifying product disk, the upgrade version is useless without it.

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Best of Luck,

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[t.cruise]

You must have qualifying Microsoft software to be able to use the upgrade. Usually you do
not have to install that qualifying software. When the dialog box comes up informing that
install is unable to find a qualifying product, usually you can swap CDs for the
qualifying product, point the path to that product CD, and when you are informed that you
qualify to use the upgrade, swap back to the Office 97 Upgrade CD. If you've been using
PCs for a long enough amount of time, you might have an old CD for a qualifying product.
If I remember correctly, MS Word, and MS Works were qualifying products for Office 97 (as
well as any stand alone version of any application included in the Office suite (e.g.
Excel, Word). So, if you have an old CD for an old version of MS Works or Word or any of
the applications, you can use one of those as proof of eligibility for upgrade. If you
don't, probably the least expensive way would be to purchase the least expensive version
of MS Works online and then use that as proof. But, if you can purchase the full version
of MS Office 97 for about $68, or Office XP Standard for $99 at pricewatch.com, you might
want to do that in lieu of purchasing a product to qualify for the upgrade. I'm sure that
if you did a web search you could find a full version of Office 97 for even less than $68.
Or, you could purchase an old version of MS Word for about $28 and use that as a
qualifying product for upgrading. Maybe you have a friend or relative who has purchased
new systems, and has their old retail Office CDs. Legally, if they are not installed on
any system, and not used as a qualifying upgrade for a newer version they have installed,
you could assume the license, and install their old full version of Office on your system.
I just threw away my old full versions of Office 97, and Office 2000, otherwise, rather
than my dumpster, you could have had them. You have many options.
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[Bruce Chambers]

I'm can't install this Office 97 upgrade on my xp because I don't have any
office software installed. When I bought Office back in 1999 I thought I
bought the standard edition but I now realize its not so. Can someone tell me
how to install this Office 97 upgrade to my computer.
Thank you,
Macc

Install an earlier version of Office first, just like the on-screen
prompt is letting you know needs to be done.


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[Bruce Chambers]

You can actually do it with the 4.2 CD or any other Office (pre 97) CD
without installing it - you just point it to the right file on the CD and
it's happy.

Thanks. I couldn't remember if Office 97 would use that trick or not;
it's been many years since I've seen it.


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[David R. Norton MVP]

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I'm can't install this Office 97 upgrade on my xp because I don't
have any office software installed. When I bought Office back in
1999 I thought I bought the standard edition but I now realize its
not so. Can someone tell me how to install this Office 97 upgrade
to my computer. Thank you,

You've had lots of answers but I like the one that suggests you buy a
later version of Office. Nobody seems to have mentioned that if your
version of Windows XP includes service pack 2, Office 97 probably won't
install.

For more information on this, check related posts in the Office
newsgroups such as microsoft.public.office.setup and
microsoft.public.office.misc, both groups have discussed the problem,
workarounds (most won't work if you have SP2 integrated into your XP
CD), etc.

You can easily find earlier posts by opening:
http://groups.google.com and type the name of the group into the search
box.

Here's one of the posts:

http://groups-
beta.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.misc/browse_thread/thread
/79ef0f0cbedf037a/fbb90e2fa532f601?q=Office97&rnum=4#fbb90e2fa532f601

or: http://makeashorterlink.com/?N28B536EA

Hope this helps?

One last point, you can pick up older versions of Office such as Office
XP that will work with SP2 from ebay for not too much money. You'll
probably find most are OEM versions which will be tied to your PC after
installing but that's not really a problem unless you plan to sell your
PC right away, just be sure the seller is offering a legal copy.