Installation of Upgrade '97

[VMac]

When I go to install my prior copy of Access '97 Upgrade,
it's not recognizing my Office 2002 applications as valid
applications for an install. Any ideas?

 

[Cheryl Fischer]

If you are trying to install an Upgrade Version of Access 97, you will need
to own and have available the media for a version of Access/Office that is
*older* than Access 97 (such as Access/Office 95 or Access 2.0).

 

[VMac]

It says that as long as you have Word '97 or Excel '97 you
can install the upgrade - I don't have those anymore (I
have the disk for those), but I do have Windows 2002 Word,
Excel, Outlook. Would seem like I could still use the
upgrade unless I need to reinstall the old versions.

 

[John Vinson]

When I go to install my prior copy of Access '97 Upgrade,
it's not recognizing my Office 2002 applications as valid
applications for an install. Any ideas?

ummm... why should - and how COULD - a program released in 1997 have
been designed to accept a program released five years LATER as a prior
version?