Re: Installation of Office 2007 (over Office 97)

Differences between Standard and Professional = Access.
I posted the link as it has worked for me under Windows 2000. YMMV.

It will clean the registry after you delete the Office 97 folders from your Windows.

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After furious head scratching, skibuz asked:

| Milly,
| Thank you for your suggestion. I found this link but is specifically
| stated for use with Office 97 Standard and my version is Office 97
| Professional. It also states that it is to be used in conjuction with
| Windows NT 4.0, Windows 95 or Windows 98.
| http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3ben-us%3b158658#appliesto
|
| The link you provided states that is is designed to be run AFTER you
| run the Setup program for Office and click the Remove All to remove
| Office. I haven't been able to be successful in getting the thing
| removed! Also, it states to be used with Office 97 Standard Edition
| ~ but (if I could get the Office 97 program removed), I could give it
| a try. I don't know what differences there are between Office 97
| Standard and Office 97 Professional......
|
| I appreciate your suggestion!
|
| I might try one more time to do an "Uninstall" of the Office 97 before
| proceeding.
| Martha
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Have you tried this option?
|| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176823/en-us
||
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|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
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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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