Re: Installation of Office 2007 (over Office 97)

Have you tried this option?
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176823/en-us

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After furious head scratching, skibuz asked:

| Jocelyn,
| I have spent the majority of the day trying (in vain) to uninstall
| Office
| 97. I have tried every alternative that I can find and it remains in
| my add/remove programs. I will proceed to attempt to install my
| Office 2007 over the Office 97 unless someone advises me that I
| should NOT do that.
| Wish me luck ~ I'll let you know if it works!
| Thanks for your help!
|
| "jsloan1223" wrote:
|
|| actually your previous post sounded like you have already removed
|| office 97. so I would try rebooting the machine, ifyou haven't
|| already, and then check add/remove programs. I bet it's not there
|| anymore. Then try installing the 2007. Worst it does is give you a
|| different error -- one that the microsoft people will address in
|| their knowledgebase articles. I do think you'll be just fine. the
|| ms folks sometimes forget about backwards compatibility, but usually
|| they are fine with installing new versions of software alongside new
|| versions of windows.
||
|| Jocelyn
||
|| "skibuz" wrote:
||
||| Jocelyn,
||| When I installed the Office 97 it was before I upgraded to SP2 so
||| there was no problem. Are you suggesting that I go ahead and try to
||| install my Office 2007 without first uninstalling the 97 version?
||| If so, I will proceed that direction.
||| Thanks!
|||
||| "jsloan1223" wrote:
|||
|||| The problem is that office 97 is apparently not "designed" to work
|||| on windows XP sp2. If you do a web search for the error you
|||| received, you find that lots of people had the same problem when
|||| trying to INSTALL office 97 on their new machine.
||||
|||| So be glad you have a new version! :)
|||| The install of the new version should be dramatically easier than
|||| the uninstall of office 97. Be sure to reboot in between (just in
|||| case). Have a great weekend!
||||
|||| Jocelyn
||||
|||| "skibuz" wrote:
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