Academic edition > Full edition

[Opinicus]

Someone who's been using the Academic edition of Office XP
is moving on to a full version of Office.
I know she has to buy the full version (not the upgrade) but
does she have to uninstall the Academic edition first or
will the full version install over it? The versions will be
different: Academic 2002; Full 2003.

The reason for wanting to install OVER the existing
installation is to preserve all the laboriously built-up
personalized settings (templates, autocorrects, personal
dictionaries, etc). Or would the Save Office Settings wizard
be able to cope with this? I've used the wizard to recover
my own settings when I had to reinstall Office XP on my own
system. Would it work between versions? (I suppose Office
2003 has a similar feature?)

 

[Cerridwen]

Someone who's been using the Academic edition of Office XP
is moving on to a full version of Office.

And why is she bothering? There is no difference between an academic and the
full retail version - the academic isn't crippled in any way. The academic
version isn't crippled in anyway - it even has the same EULA (as I
understand it).

So, she's wasting her money.

 

[bxb7668]

And why is she bothering? There is no difference between an academic and the
full retail version - the academic isn't crippled in any way. The academic
version isn't crippled in anyway - it even has the same EULA (as I
understand it).

So, she's wasting her money.

Please reread the OP. She's upgrading from Office XP to Office 2003.

And yes you can install over XP and keep the settings.

 

[Opinicus]

Someone who's been using the Academic edition of Office
XP

And why is she bothering? There is no difference between

an academic and

Because she's not a student any more.