Office 2007 - general info re upgrade

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Dave Horne

My wife teaches at a university and we can buy Office 2007 at a very
attractice price. We already have Office 2002 on our computer (Vista H
oOme Premium) and I just ordered Office Enterprise (UK) 2007. This is not
an upgrade but a full suite (or whatever you guys call it).

At any rate, just to be sure, I would assume I first uninstall Office 2002
and then install Office 2007. (I suppose a reboot wouldn't hurt as well?)

I have the information re our e-mail set up and the location of outlook.pst
which I also assume I will Import once I Ooulook is set up.

Is the above information basically correct? Feel free to give me any tips.
Thanks.
 
I saw some strange words in that previous post so and reposted (since I
can't edit from my newsgroup reader).

My wife teaches at a university and we can buy Office 2007 at a very
attractive price. We already have Office 2002 on our computer
(Vista Home Premium) and I just ordered Office Enterprise (UK) 2007. This
is not
an upgrade but a full suite (or whatever you guys call it).

At any rate, just to be sure, I would assume I first uninstall Office 2002
and then install Office 2007. (I suppose a reboot wouldn't hurt as well?)

I have the information re our e-mail set up and the location of outlook.pst
which I also assume I will Import once I Outlook is set up.

Is the above information basically correct? Feel free to give me any tips.
Thanks.
 
Uninstalling Office XP prior to installing Office 2007 is not necessary (you can choose to upgrade) but the install will offer the option to remove any previous installations of Office (for the programs included in Office 2007) Your settings, files, etc. are not touched and you should have no need to import anything (which is never the correct method for transferring Outlook data anyway). After you install Office 2007, the one caveat is that you should create a new mail profile to be on the safe side and configure Outlook to use your old .pst file.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
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After furious head scratching, Dave Horne asked:

| My wife teaches at a university and we can buy Office 2007 at a very
| attractice price. We already have Office 2002 on our computer (Vista
| H oOme Premium) and I just ordered Office Enterprise (UK) 2007. This
| is not an upgrade but a full suite (or whatever you guys call it).
|
| At any rate, just to be sure, I would assume I first uninstall Office
| 2002 and then install Office 2007. (I suppose a reboot wouldn't hurt
| as well?)
|
| I have the information re our e-mail set up and the location of
| outlook.pst which I also assume I will Import once I Ooulook is set
| up.
|
| Is the above information basically correct? Feel free to give me
| any tips. Thanks.U
 
Milly, to be clear, if I attempt to install Office 2007 without first
uninstalling Office 2002, I will be offered several options, correct? One
will be to completely remove all traces of Office 2002, correct?

The version of Office 2007 I ordered was a full version and not an upgrade
per se. I was actually planning on doing a complete uninstall of Office
2002 before installing Office 2007, but if Office 2007 offers me the option
of removing all traces of Office 2002 when I go to install it, I will do
that.


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Uninstalling Office XP prior to installing Office 2007 is not necessary (you
can choose to upgrade) but the install will offer the option to remove any
previous installations of Office (for the programs included in Office 2007)
Your settings, files, etc. are not touched and you should have no need to
import anything (which is never the correct method for transferring Outlook
data anyway). After you install Office 2007, the one caveat is that you
should create a new mail profile to be on the safe side and configure
Outlook to use your old .pst file.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Dave Horne asked:

| My wife teaches at a university and we can buy Office 2007 at a very
| attractice price. We already have Office 2002 on our computer (Vista
| H oOme Premium) and I just ordered Office Enterprise (UK) 2007. This
| is not an upgrade but a full suite (or whatever you guys call it).
|
| At any rate, just to be sure, I would assume I first uninstall Office
| 2002 and then install Office 2007. (I suppose a reboot wouldn't hurt
| as well?)
|
| I have the information re our e-mail set up and the location of
| outlook.pst which I also assume I will Import once I Ooulook is set
| up.
|
| Is the above information basically correct? Feel free to give me
| any tips. Thanks.U
 
Dave Horne said:
My wife teaches at a university and we can buy Office 2007 at a very
attractice price. We already have Office 2002 on our computer (Vista
H oOme Premium) and I just ordered Office Enterprise (UK) 2007. This
is not an upgrade but a full suite (or whatever you guys call it).

At any rate, just to be sure, I would assume I first uninstall Office
2002 and then install Office 2007. (I suppose a reboot wouldn't hurt
as well?)
Click to expand...

You shouldn't need to uninstall the prior version of Office; Office 2007
should detect that it is there and ask if you want to uninstall it.
However, it's a good idea, in my opinion, to uninstall it yourself, reboot,
and then install the newer version.
I have the information re our e-mail set up and the location of
outlook.pst which I also assume I will Import once I Ooulook is set
up.
Click to expand...

NEVER export to or import from a PST. There's no need and you can corrupt
an existing mail profile. After installing the new version of Office, open
the Mail applet in Control Panel and create a new mail profile. Either
reuse the existing PST or, better in this case, use a new PST and copy the
information in Outlook from the old one to the new one, closing the old one
when fiinished.
 
Brian Tillman said:
You shouldn't need to uninstall the prior version of Office; Office 2007
should detect that it is there and ask if you want to uninstall it.
However, it's a good idea, in my opinion, to uninstall it yourself,
reboot, and then install the newer version.


NEVER export to or import from a PST. There's no need and you can corrupt
an existing mail profile. After installing the new version of Office,
open the Mail applet in Control Panel and create a new mail profile.
Either reuse the existing PST or, better in this case, use a new PST and
copy the information in Outlook from the old one to the new one, closing
the old one when fiinished.
Click to expand...


Brian, once I install Office 2007, can I then simply move (or copy) my old
outlook.pst to the same place where Outlook expects to find it? Can I
simply overwrite the new 'empty' outlook.pst with my old one? (
C:\Users\user name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.pst )
 
NO, do not overwrite any existing .pst file as that will corrupt you files as well. Best to copy it to a place that gets backed up regularly like My Documents. It doesn't matter where the .pst file resides - I have mine on a separate data drive and have for 8 years.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Dave Horne asked:

| ||
||| My wife teaches at a university and we can buy Office 2007 at a very
||| attractice price. We already have Office 2002 on our computer
||| (Vista H oOme Premium) and I just ordered Office Enterprise (UK)
||| 2007. This is not an upgrade but a full suite (or whatever you
||| guys call it).
|||
||| At any rate, just to be sure, I would assume I first uninstall
||| Office 2002 and then install Office 2007. (I suppose a reboot
||| wouldn't hurt as well?)
||
|| You shouldn't need to uninstall the prior version of Office; Office
|| 2007 should detect that it is there and ask if you want to uninstall
|| it. However, it's a good idea, in my opinion, to uninstall it
|| yourself, reboot, and then install the newer version.
||
||| I have the information re our e-mail set up and the location of
||| outlook.pst which I also assume I will Import once I Ooulook is set
||| up.
||
|| NEVER export to or import from a PST. There's no need and you can
|| corrupt an existing mail profile. After installing the new version
|| of Office, open the Mail applet in Control Panel and create a new
|| mail profile. Either reuse the existing PST or, better in this case,
|| use a new PST and copy the information in Outlook from the old one
|| to the new one, closing the old one when fiinished.
|| --
|| Brian Tillman
|
|
| Brian, once I install Office 2007, can I then simply move (or copy)
| my old outlook.pst to the same place where Outlook expects to find
| it? Can I simply overwrite the new 'empty' outlook.pst with my old
| one? ( C:\Users\user
| name\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook\outlook.pst )
 
Well, I just installed Office Enterprise 2007 and it went more or less OK.
Before I installed Office 2007 I first uninstalled Office 2002. That went
fine. There was also an Office program, I think a tutorial program, that I
also uninstalled but that caused a minor problem. At one point it seemed as
though the computer stopped working and I was left watching a message
stating something about a database issue. After about five minutes I closed
that window down and was then confronted with one of those 'do you want to
remove a read only file that might be used by another program' and I said
yes to all.

The opening of Outlook gave me two errors and Outlook was shutdown each time
with a specific mention of two programs (which had a toolbar installed on my
Outlook 2002) - Skype and McAfee.

My outlook.pst file was automatically in place and the only thing for me to
do was to enter in the passwords for several e-mail accounts.

Boy, the look of Outlook is really different though I know from experience
this will fade quickly.

So, so far, so good. I just need to figure out a way to get those toolbars
back from Skype and McAfee.
 
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