Re: 2002 upgrade to 2003

chesjak wrote:
Hi

A little while ago, I posted a question on here but nobody replied to it. I can't beleive there is nobody out there amongs you knowledgeable lot that doesn't know the answer so here goes again.

I am currently using office 2002 pro and are just about to upgrade to 2003 pro (I don't like 2007, can't get on with it so will wait for next version to come out)

My questions are:
1) Do I have to uninstall 2002 before installing 2003 or will it install over the top?

Yes, but you need to make sure that Outlook 03 uses its .pst file, not 02's.

2) I don't want to loose my tool bar settings etc so how do I go about saving them and will they be comatable with 2003?

Not sure about that. If you mean, say, an Excel doc. that is set up to work in a certain way, yes, it will save them.

3) I also don't want to loose all the setting I have in OUTLOOK ( ie my calender dates entries etc) so how do I go about this?

They will all be in your .pst file. Once you've installed 03, make sure that Outlook is using the new .pst file and merely use File/Open to open your old .pst file and copy what you want from it to the new one. Personally, I would save the old .pst file, uninstall Office 2002, reboot, do a clean up and install 03.

4) Likewise, the emails that I have still got on the system in the OUTLOOK "deleted file", how do I transfer them over to 2003

See my answer to number 3.


Lastly, I installed a trial copy of 2007 to try. What is the best and safest way of getting rid of this without damaging the 2002 pro that I have on my computer and will all the .xls files that I have created in 2007 be compatable with 2003

Just uninstall 07 BEFORE installing 03 and before uninstalling 02 if you choose to do that. Once you have 03 installed and try to open an .xls or ..docx file, Office 03 will offer an update to be able to read those files. Accept it.


I do hope someone can answer all the above and look forward to your help.

Many thanks
Regards

I did my best and I hope it helped.

Alias
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