Re: Lost original Office CD

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On Oct 24, 2:35 am, ryan...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
I can guess the answer to this question, but it's possible someone out
there has a solution.

I've been using an upgrade version of MS Office for a long time. I am
pretty sure the original full-price purchase was Office 98. As I've
gone through various hardware upgrades (Performa, iMac, G3 Blue, G5
dual 2.0), I've simply upgraded Office through Office 2001 and now
Office v. X. I was planning to get Office 2004, along with the $10
upgade to Office 2008.

Recently, however, I had to wipe and reformat the drive on my G5, and
am now going through the process of reinstalling all applications.
When I got to Office, naturally, the install disk asked for the
earlier version of Word on my drive or to insert the original disk. No
luck. It seems my wife or I inadvertently pitched the original disk as
part of one of my earlier Mac upgrades. I'm not even sure the original
was on a CD; it may have been floppies and was almost certainly a
system 9 application. That worked OK for the original upgrade to
Office v. X because my G3 had both OS's and the installer could find
the original software on the drive, as I recall.

I may have the original receipt from Computerware for Office 98, but
finding it will be a mother, and I don't want to waste the time unless
it's really essential. And if even that won't help, I don't want to
make the effort.

Any other work-arounds or do I just have to spring for the standard
(non-upgrade) edition?

If you have a upgrade of Office and you purchase Office 2004 upgrade,
you can still install Office 2004 from this upgrade.
You insert the Office 2004 Cd and drag the Office 2004 folder to the
desktop and when you launch an Office application you will receive an
upgrade verification to browse to a earlier version, this is when you
can insert your earlier version of the upgrade into the drive and just
browse to the earlier version folder and it will verify successfully.

Darlene

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