Can I Selectively Uninstall and Downgrade?

[emanon]

I want to ditch Office 2007, except for Outlook, and go back to Office 2000.
I'm spending too much time saving my office files in the Office 2000 format
for Office 2007 to be of any use to me. The only thing the new version of
Office has fixed is when I exit Outlook, it finally stays closed.

Since I own Office 2000 and have my original media and license keys, there
should be no problem . . . provided Office 2007 will allow this to happen.
Anecdotally, I've heard of some strange problems with trying to remove
Office 2007, problems to the point that people had to reformat their drives
to get rid of it. If it makes a difference, I am using Windows XP Pro with
SP2+.

 

[Donna Buenaventura]

Yes you can run the repair of Office 2007 then modify the installation by
removing the components you do not need. However, you might want to know
that Office 2000 is now in its Extended Support phase which means hotfixes
is no longer available unless you've purchased extended hotfix support from
MS. You'll still get security updates.
More info at http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/


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Regards,
Donna Buenaventura
Windows Security MVP
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[Chuck Davis]

emanon,
I have been using Office 2007 for about three weeks. All of the older
documents that I open are in "compatibility" mode and remain that way.

Do you send most of your files to non-2007 users? a few? none? If you answer
few or none, it's not really a problem. Just Save As those few. In a few
months others will be sending you 2007 documents that you won't be able to
open....

I agree that there is little new function, only different ways to do the
same things.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

YOu really don't need to Save As each time if you set your compatibility options to the 97-2003 version in the compatibility selection.

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After furious head scratching, Chuck Davis asked:

| emanon,
| I have been using Office 2007 for about three weeks. All of the older
| documents that I open are in "compatibility" mode and remain that way.
|
| Do you send most of your files to non-2007 users? a few? none? If you
| answer few or none, it's not really a problem. Just Save As those
| few. In a few months others will be sending you 2007 documents that
| you won't be able to open....
|
| I agree that there is little new function, only different ways to do
| the same things.
|
| || I want to ditch Office 2007, except for Outlook, and go back to
|| Office 2000. I'm spending too much time saving my office files in
|| the Office 2000 format for Office 2007 to be of any use to me. The
|| only thing the new version of Office has fixed is when I exit
|| Outlook, it finally stays closed.
||
|| Since I own Office 2000 and have my original media and license keys,
|| there should be no problem . . . provided Office 2007 will allow
|| this to happen. Anecdotally, I've heard of some strange problems
|| with trying to remove Office 2007, problems to the point that people
|| had to reformat their drives to get rid of it. If it makes a
|| difference, I am using Windows XP Pro with SP2+.

 

[emanon]

Thanks for the help.

Since I never had any problems with Office 2000 I don't care about support.
Since I'm not running Vista, and have no plans whatsoever to upgrade to
Vista in any form, everything should be fine.

 

[emanon]

This is also addressed to Chuck Davis:

If I set the options to Office 2000 compatibility, what was the purpose
ofthe upgrade? It is also not just a matter of the people I send Office
files to, none of whom are using Office 2007, it's a question of
compatibility with other applications I use on a daily basis.

I use Adobe applications for producing my final output. None of them use
Office 2007. I've also lost some important single click operations because
of the new document format. The company I work for has their main
application front end in an Access 2000 database. If I open it with Access
2007, I've poisned the well if I forget to save as Access 2000. I can't
afford to try and open it with Access 2007 just to see what happens either.
Again, if I have to save in an old version to be compatible with the
programs I use on a daily basis and the people I communicate with daily,
what is my reason to upgrade? Savingin a previous format removes anything
alegedly good about the new format, so If I'm not preserving what supposedly
makes Office 2007 special, I'm not using the upgrade.

In all fairness, I am pleased with Outlook 2007. For a LONG time. I've been
complining that Outlook 2000 would visibly close, yet it would remain
showing in Task Manager along with the MSAPI. It happened with Windows 2000
Pro, Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP. It's done this on every PC I've
ever used, either at home or work, server, desktop or laptop. I am wiling to
praise Outlook 2007 as finally resolving this problem. Since e-mail traffic
is e-mail traffic, there are no problems sending e-mails to non-Office 2007
users.

That is why I want to ditch the rest of the Suite and keep just Outlook
2007.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
YOu really don't need to Save As each time if you set your compatibility
options to the 97-2003 version in the compatibility selection.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Chuck Davis asked:

| emanon,
| I have been using Office 2007 for about three weeks. All of the older
| documents that I open are in "compatibility" mode and remain that way.
|
| Do you send most of your files to non-2007 users? a few? none? If you
| answer few or none, it's not really a problem. Just Save As those
| few. In a few months others will be sending you 2007 documents that
| you won't be able to open....
|
| I agree that there is little new function, only different ways to do
| the same things.
|
| || I want to ditch Office 2007, except for Outlook, and go back to
|| Office 2000. I'm spending too much time saving my office files in
|| the Office 2000 format for Office 2007 to be of any use to me. The
|| only thing the new version of Office has fixed is when I exit
|| Outlook, it finally stays closed.
||
|| Since I own Office 2000 and have my original media and license keys,
|| there should be no problem . . . provided Office 2007 will allow
|| this to happen. Anecdotally, I've heard of some strange problems
|| with trying to remove Office 2007, problems to the point that people
|| had to reformat their drives to get rid of it. If it makes a
|| difference, I am using Windows XP Pro with SP2+.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Since you never explained why you "had" to ditch Office 2007, my reply addressed concerns you posted. With your additional information about compatibility in opening applications run by the company where you work (an essential piece of information to include in any post, BTW) and with other programs (also omitted from your original post), anyone's recommendations would be entirely different, as are mine now that you have fully explained your position.

When posting, please never presume that we are privy to all the details of your situation if you have not outlined them fully. It wastes our time and frustrates you so no one wins.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.

After furious head scratching, emanon asked:

| This is also addressed to Chuck Davis:
|
| If I set the options to Office 2000 compatibility, what was the
| purpose ofthe upgrade? It is also not just a matter of the people I
| send Office files to, none of whom are using Office 2007, it's a
| question of compatibility with other applications I use on a daily
| basis.
|
| I use Adobe applications for producing my final output. None of them
| use Office 2007. I've also lost some important single click
| operations because of the new document format. The company I work for
| has their main application front end in an Access 2000 database. If I
| open it with Access 2007, I've poisned the well if I forget to save
| as Access 2000. I can't afford to try and open it with Access 2007
| just to see what happens either. Again, if I have to save in an old
| version to be compatible with the programs I use on a daily basis and
| the people I communicate with daily, what is my reason to upgrade?
| Savingin a previous format removes anything alegedly good about the
| new format, so If I'm not preserving what supposedly makes Office
| 2007 special, I'm not using the upgrade.
|
| In all fairness, I am pleased with Outlook 2007. For a LONG time.
| I've been complining that Outlook 2000 would visibly close, yet it
| would remain showing in Task Manager along with the MSAPI. It
| happened with Windows 2000 Pro, Windows 2000 Server and Windows XP.
| It's done this on every PC I've ever used, either at home or work,
| server, desktop or laptop. I am wiling to praise Outlook 2007 as
| finally resolving this problem. Since e-mail traffic is e-mail
| traffic, there are no problems sending e-mails to non-Office 2007
| users.
|
| That is why I want to ditch the rest of the Suite and keep just
| Outlook 2007.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
| | YOu really don't need to Save As each time if you set your
| compatibility options to the 97-2003 version in the compatibility
| selection.
|
| --
| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
|
| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
| reading.
|
| After furious head scratching, Chuck Davis asked:
|
|| emanon,
|| I have been using Office 2007 for about three weeks. All of the older
|| documents that I open are in "compatibility" mode and remain that
|| way.
||
|| Do you send most of your files to non-2007 users? a few? none? If you
|| answer few or none, it's not really a problem. Just Save As those
|| few. In a few months others will be sending you 2007 documents that
|| you won't be able to open....
||
|| I agree that there is little new function, only different ways to do
|| the same things.
||
|| ||| I want to ditch Office 2007, except for Outlook, and go back to
||| Office 2000. I'm spending too much time saving my office files in
||| the Office 2000 format for Office 2007 to be of any use to me. The
||| only thing the new version of Office has fixed is when I exit
||| Outlook, it finally stays closed.
|||
||| Since I own Office 2000 and have my original media and license keys,
||| there should be no problem . . . provided Office 2007 will allow
||| this to happen. Anecdotally, I've heard of some strange problems
||| with trying to remove Office 2007, problems to the point that people
||| had to reformat their drives to get rid of it. If it makes a
||| difference, I am using Windows XP Pro with SP2+.

 

[Alan Campbell]

I also wish to downgrade:

I use Office 2003 at work. At home, I have Office 2007. I have all sorts of grief- but mostly with Excel.

Even when I use the Compatability mode, Excel 2007 manages to screw things up. Particularly charts. The View->Sized With Window option has vanished, and the X-axis can't seem to keep track of the date format I use to summarise weekly events. It even manages to screw up the default color pattern.

I'm not thrilled about Word, but I'd REALLY like to wind back to Excel 2003 at home. The question is- can I do it? And, since I don't have a copy of Office 2003, HOW do I do it?

 

[Tom [Pepper] Willett]

Without a copy of Office 2003, you can't do it.

<Alan Campbell> wrote in message :I also wish to downgrade:
:
: I use Office 2003 at work. At home, I have Office 2007. I have all sorts
of grief- but mostly with Excel.
:
: Even when I use the Compatability mode, Excel 2007 manages to screw things
up. Particularly charts. The View->Sized With Window option has vanished,
and the X-axis can't seem to keep track of the date format I use to
summarise weekly events. It even manages to screw up the default color
pattern.
:
: I'm not thrilled about Word, but I'd REALLY like to wind back to Excel
2003 at home. The question is- can I do it? And, since I don't have a copy
of Office 2003, HOW do I do it?

 

[Wanda]

I uninstalled office 2007 and reinstalled my office 2003 (legal copy). Now I
cannot see the office 2003 on my machine list of programs. I can see it in
the control panel but not in programs. Help!!!