changing from Free trial of Office 2003 to Office Enterprise 2007

[Mrs Mac]

Hello
I have taken the plunge and decided to move from Office 2003 (free trial
which came pre-installed on my new Vista machine) to Office Enterprise 2007
- since I could not get hold of a student version of Office Professional 2003
which seems to have been taken off the market very recently (bummer).

I am unable to locate any info about the steps to follow when changing over
from 2003 to 2007. And I do meant 'the steps' (more like idiot guide!).

I am concerned that I will lose all data in my outlook (old emails/contacts)
and also that I am not sure how to covert my 2003 files into a 2007 version.

The info I have found online seems to be aimed more at IT professionals who
have to migrate an entire business rather than home users like myself.

I don't want to screw it up and lose stuff (I have done a backup of all
documents - but am not sure how to save my emails).

Any pointers/info pages within MS website that a home user can make sense of
would be great.

Thanks

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Performing an inplace upgrade or a clean install will not bother any of your files. Office uninstalls never touch user data. Put in the CD, install, open Outlook and everything should be there. If not, use File->Open->Outlook Data File and browse to your old .pst file and open it and make it the default delivery location for new mail.

There is nothing to convert to the new Office document formats. HOwever, to preserve compatibility with folks who are not running 2007 yet, I would set the compatibility mode to 97-2003 format. Use the big Orange Office button to get to the Word, Excel, etc. options at the bottom of the dropdown.

--
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, Mrs Mac asked:

| Hello
| I have taken the plunge and decided to move from Office 2003 (free
| trial which came pre-installed on my new Vista machine) to Office
| Enterprise 2007 - since I could not get hold of a student version of
| Office Professional 2003 which seems to have been taken off the
| market very recently (bummer).
|
| I am unable to locate any info about the steps to follow when
| changing over from 2003 to 2007. And I do meant 'the steps' (more
| like idiot guide!).
|
| I am concerned that I will lose all data in my outlook (old
| emails/contacts) and also that I am not sure how to covert my 2003
| files into a 2007 version.
|
| The info I have found online seems to be aimed more at IT
| professionals who have to migrate an entire business rather than home
| users like myself.
|
| I don't want to screw it up and lose stuff (I have done a backup of
| all documents - but am not sure how to save my emails).
|
| Any pointers/info pages within MS website that a home user can make
| sense of would be great.
|
| Thanks

 

[Hoots Mon]

Hello Milly

Thank you for that. I had no idea that removing the trial version of
Outlook 2003 (and the rest of the Office 2003 Suite) would not remove the
files created whilst using the trial version (that is what I meant about
needing an idiot guide!). I was so happy to hear that.

I had no accompanying guidance with the Office Enterprise 2007 as it is a
student version. I couldn't find any info on the MS site that explicitly
stated removing the trial version would leave all files created whilst using
it intact.

I did gather from the other emails that you needed to get rid of the
unwanted version of Office before installing the desired one, or you may
cause yourself issues.

With your information and advice I confidently removed the trial version of
2003 and 'clean installed' using the 2007 disk. All my Outlook emails
appeared in the 2007 version without having to do anything. It also brought
across my MS Mail contact details without any trouble purely by a prompt on
which I clicked the default option.

I am actually looking forward to learning 2007. I like the environment.
The ribbons will take a bit of getting used to just to find out where things
live but like all new versions of anything, just give it time and it will be
the accepted norm.

Thank you so much for your advice and help
Mrs Mac

Performing an inplace upgrade or a clean install will not bother any of your files. Office uninstalls never touch user data. Put in the CD, install, open Outlook and everything should be there. If not, use File->Open->Outlook Data File and browse to your old .pst file and open it and make it the default delivery location for new mail.

There is nothing to convert to the new Office document formats. HOwever, to preserve compatibility with folks who are not running 2007 yet, I would set the compatibility mode to 97-2003 format. Use the big Orange Office button to get to the Word, Excel, etc. options at the bottom of the dropdown.

--Â
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, Mrs Mac asked:

| Hello
| I have taken the plunge and decided to move from Office 2003 (free
| trial which came pre-installed on my new Vista machine) to Office
| Enterprise 2007 - since I could not get hold of a student version of
| Office Professional 2003 which seems to have been taken off the
| market very recently (bummer).
|
| I am unable to locate any info about the steps to follow when
| changing over from 2003 to 2007. And I do meant 'the steps' (more
| like idiot guide!).
|
| I am concerned that I will lose all data in my outlook (old
| emails/contacts) and also that I am not sure how to covert my 2003
| files into a 2007 version.
|
| The info I have found online seems to be aimed more at IT
| professionals who have to migrate an entire business rather than home
| users like myself.
|
| I don't want to screw it up and lose stuff (I have done a backup of
| all documents - but am not sure how to save my emails).
|
| Any pointers/info pages within MS website that a home user can make
| sense of would be great.
|
| Thanks

 

[Hoots Mon]

Sorry about the various names in use. Last night I had to put a name and
today I have been automatically provided with the ID I created when I first
joined Office Online. Ah the quirks.

Mrs Mac and Hoots are one and the same.

Thanks again for your help.

Hello Milly

Thank you for that. I had no idea that removing the trial version of
Outlook 2003 (and the rest of the Office 2003 Suite) would not remove the
files created whilst using the trial version (that is what I meant about
needing an idiot guide!). I was so happy to hear that.

I had no accompanying guidance with the Office Enterprise 2007 as it is a
student version. I couldn't find any info on the MS site that explicitly
stated removing the trial version would leave all files created whilst using
it intact.

I did gather from the other emails that you needed to get rid of the
unwanted version of Office before installing the desired one, or you may
cause yourself issues.

With your information and advice I confidently removed the trial version of
2003 and 'clean installed' using the 2007 disk. All my Outlook emails
appeared in the 2007 version without having to do anything. It also brought
across my MS Mail contact details without any trouble purely by a prompt on
which I clicked the default option.

I am actually looking forward to learning 2007. I like the environment.
The ribbons will take a bit of getting used to just to find out where things
live but like all new versions of anything, just give it time and it will be
the accepted norm.

Thank you so much for your advice and help
Mrs Mac

Performing an inplace upgrade or a clean install will not bother any of your files. Office uninstalls never touch user data. Put in the CD, install, open Outlook and everything should be there. If not, use File->Open->Outlook Data File and browse to your old .pst file and open it and make it the default delivery location for new mail.

There is nothing to convert to the new Office document formats. HOwever, to preserve compatibility with folks who are not running 2007 yet, I would set the compatibility mode to 97-2003 format. Use the big Orange Office button to get to the Word, Excel, etc. options at the bottom of the dropdown.

--Â
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, Mrs Mac asked:

| Hello
| I have taken the plunge and decided to move from Office 2003 (free
| trial which came pre-installed on my new Vista machine) to Office
| Enterprise 2007 - since I could not get hold of a student version of
| Office Professional 2003 which seems to have been taken off the
| market very recently (bummer).
|
| I am unable to locate any info about the steps to follow when
| changing over from 2003 to 2007. And I do meant 'the steps' (more
| like idiot guide!).
|
| I am concerned that I will lose all data in my outlook (old
| emails/contacts) and also that I am not sure how to covert my 2003
| files into a 2007 version.
|
| The info I have found online seems to be aimed more at IT
| professionals who have to migrate an entire business rather than home
| users like myself.
|
| I don't want to screw it up and lose stuff (I have done a backup of
| all documents - but am not sure how to save my emails).
|
| Any pointers/info pages within MS website that a home user can make
| sense of would be great.
|
| Thanks

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Glad to hear your experience went well and thanks for posting back to the news group.

I found that using some of the Office programs I use less frequently became a lot simpler with the new Ribbon interface since it exposes items formerly buried 2 and 3 menus deep. I think you will like it too once you use it for a few weeks.

--
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, Hoots Mon asked:

| Hello Milly
|
| Thank you for that. I had no idea that removing the trial version of
| Outlook 2003 (and the rest of the Office 2003 Suite) would not remove
| the files created whilst using the trial version (that is what I
| meant about needing an idiot guide!). I was so happy to hear that.
|
| I had no accompanying guidance with the Office Enterprise 2007 as it
| is a student version. I couldn't find any info on the MS site that
| explicitly stated removing the trial version would leave all files
| created whilst using it intact.
|
| I did gather from the other emails that you needed to get rid of the
| unwanted version of Office before installing the desired one, or you
| may cause yourself issues.
|
| With your information and advice I confidently removed the trial
| version of 2003 and 'clean installed' using the 2007 disk. All my
| Outlook emails appeared in the 2007 version without having to do
| anything. It also brought across my MS Mail contact details without
| any trouble purely by a prompt on which I clicked the default option.
|
| I am actually looking forward to learning 2007. I like the
| environment. The ribbons will take a bit of getting used to just to
| find out where things live but like all new versions of anything,
| just give it time and it will be the accepted norm.
|
| Thank you so much for your advice and help
| Mrs Mac
|
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Performing an inplace upgrade or a clean install will not bother any
|| of your files. Office uninstalls never touch user data. Put in the
|| CD, install, open Outlook and everything should be there. If not,
|| use File->Open->Outlook Data File and browse to your old .pst file
|| and open it and make it the default delivery location for new mail.
||
|| There is nothing to convert to the new Office document formats.
|| HOwever, to preserve compatibility with folks who are not running
|| 2007 yet, I would set the compatibility mode to 97-2003 format.
|| Use the big Orange Office button to get to the Word, Excel, etc.
|| options at the bottom of the dropdown.
||
|| --Â
|| 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, Mrs Mac asked:
||
||| Hello
||| I have taken the plunge and decided to move from Office 2003 (free
||| trial which came pre-installed on my new Vista machine) to Office
||| Enterprise 2007 - since I could not get hold of a student version of
||| Office Professional 2003 which seems to have been taken off the
||| market very recently (bummer).
|||
||| I am unable to locate any info about the steps to follow when
||| changing over from 2003 to 2007. And I do meant 'the steps' (more
||| like idiot guide!).
|||
||| I am concerned that I will lose all data in my outlook (old
||| emails/contacts) and also that I am not sure how to covert my 2003
||| files into a 2007 version.
|||
||| The info I have found online seems to be aimed more at IT
||| professionals who have to migrate an entire business rather than
||| home users like myself.
|||
||| I don't want to screw it up and lose stuff (I have done a backup of
||| all documents - but am not sure how to save my emails).
|||
||| Any pointers/info pages within MS website that a home user can make
||| sense of would be great.
|||
||| Thanks