Installing Office 97 (Standard Edition) Upgrade on My Windows XP Home Edition PC

[Robert]

I have read articles posted out on this Newsgroup stating
that Office 97 works well on an XP (Home Edition) PC. The
problem I am encountering, is that when I attempt to load
my personal copy of Office 97 Upgrade (Standard Edition)
package, the install program will not recognize that I
have MS Works (packaged with XP) already installed.

 

[Guest]

You may have to go get the updates for both.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

If you have a fairly new version of Microsoft Works installed,
then the upgrade version of Office 97 is not going to recognize
it as a qualifying product to upgrade from since the new version
of Microsoft Works did not exist in 1997.

You'll have to contact Microsoft Support for assistance:

Visit: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=sz;en-us;SZ1589&sd=MVP

or try the Office experts:

Please visit the Office experts in the appropriate Office newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.setup

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| I have read articles posted out on this Newsgroup stating
| that Office 97 works well on an XP (Home Edition) PC. The
| problem I am encountering, is that when I attempt to load
| my personal copy of Office 97 Upgrade (Standard Edition)
| package, the install program will not recognize that I
| have MS Works (packaged with XP) already installed.

 

[Robert]

What updates?

-----Original Message-----
You may have to go get the updates for both.





.

 

[Robert]

What if I install MS Works 4.5 on my XP (Home Edition),
and then install the Office 97 Upgrade? Can I have two
versions of Works running on my XP Desktop?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

I'm not an Office expert. You can get an answer by posting your
question to the Office experts:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.setup

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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| What if I install MS Works 4.5 on my XP (Home Edition),
| and then install the Office 97 Upgrade? Can I have two
| versions of Works running on my XP Desktop?

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Well, no, of course it won't. How could a 7-year- old
installation routine possibly be expected to recognize a much newer,
2-year old product as a qualifying application? To use that Office 97
Upgrade, you'll need to prove ownership of either an older (then 1997)
version of Office or an older version of Works Suite.


Bruce Chambers

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[Glen]

or just point it back to itself for the qualifying product.