Upgrading from Works to Office

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My PC came pre-installed with XP Home 2002 and Works 8.0 and I wish to
upgrade to MS Office Standard.

Should I use an Upgrade or full version of Office?

Will older versions work e.g. 2002 or older?

creddy
 
Hi

There is no 'upgrade' path from Works to Office. You will need a full
version of Office. The upgrade versions of Office are only available to use
if you already have Office installed.

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Thank you, that confirms what I thought, now I just need to know if I a
pre-2003 upgrade will work as I cant afford the latest version.
 
This may or may not help:

I have a laptop using win' xp sp2 and outlook 2002(oem with smartphone) and
word 2002 as part of works suite 2005 which also includes works 8! Both of
the word and outlook are Office XP/2002 app's and can be updated from
microsoft update and Office downloads page to include Office XP sp3 among
others.

In the past I borrowed an official copy of my brothers multiple licence
Office 2000 Premier ((I think premier was the previous name for
Professional/Small Business Edition? (I don't remember if Access was incuded)
but I could be wrong)).

The only reason that it is not still on my pc is because of multiple system
recoveries due to hardware and other problems not connected with the office
app's led to me having to ask to borrow the disc again and my brother could
not afford to be without the disc for too long as his office needed the keep
disc for their own security. While it was on my laptop I never had any
problems with the 'old' application conflicting with an O/S that was written
later.

I would also love to know where I could get an official copy of Office XP
standard or Pro as I also cannot afford £370 for Office 2003 Standard never
mind whatever the 2003 Pro must cost.

Hope this info helps
 
TufftyBob said:
This may or may not help:

I would also love to know where I could get an official copy of Office XP
standard or Pro as I also cannot afford £370 for Office 2003 Standard never
mind whatever the 2003 Pro must cost.
Click to expand...

Two possibilities:-

Poss 1 - If you have school age children then you could buy a student
licence.

Poss 2 - Check out the cost of an upgrade. Works 8 is a qualifying product
for upgrade see
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/professional.mspx#EQE


Dick
 
Thanks TufftyBob

Im am about to try out something called Open Office (which is free) based on
the following recomendation (see discussion group Windows XP General, Upgrade
Works to Office)

"Try OpenOffice www.openoffice.org - that's definitely a good price, it's
FREE and will do almost anything that Office 2002 will do (except outlook of
course). It will both read and edit Office files, and also save-as Office
file format. It will also export a document to pdf - something which even
Office 2003 won't do."

Otherwise its trying to find an older copy of office on ebay (buyer beware).

I have ordered a copy on disc (£5.37) and will let you now how I get on with
it.

Regards
 
I bought Office Pro 2003 upgrade with Works 8 as the qualifying product. It
installed fine a few months ago but I just had to have a new hard drive
installed and re-imaged and when I went to reinstall from my Office CD, I get
a message that I need a previous version of Office to be able to use the
upgrade. What BS. Then I go to the MS web site and they want $35 for support.
Any suggestions. I spent $250 on this software and now it won't install when
it worked fine for the past few months and it clearly states on the box that
Works is an eligible product for the upgrade. Help!!!
 
You need to either have Works installed or have the installation media for Works as proof of the qualifying product.
 
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