How to update

[jay lunis]

Hope this is the proper ng.
Currently running Office 2000. Have bought a new HP Vista PC and am
moving apps from the old XP to the new Vista PC.
In trying to move Office, I get a message the Office CD is an upgrade
version and I need the original. Now this has been 5+ years ago and old
guys tend to forget but I think I actually upgraded from WordPerfect.
Is it possible I upgraded from WP? Does it make any difference to the
upgrade CD?
If the upgrade is from WP, I have a second problem . . . finding a way
to get the WP on 3.5 floppies to Vista (which in itself sounds unpleasant).

BONUS: Also moving Outlook 2002 to the new PC. I have read competing
articles saying the migration takes some manual adjustments but the
result is good, and others arguing moving O 2002 is so difficult it is
not worth the effort. Knowledgeable opinions please. And is there an
'upgrade CD/DVD for Outlook?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Jay,

The products that qualified for upgrade editions of MS Office 2000 are listed here. They don't have to be installed, as long as you
have the CD/disk for one of them (although there were some problems with MS Works CDs being recognized). WordPerfect was a
qualifying product
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210437

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Hope this is the proper ng.
Currently running Office 2000. Have bought a new HP Vista PC and am
moving apps from the old XP to the new Vista PC.
In trying to move Office, I get a message the Office CD is an upgrade
version and I need the original. Now this has been 5+ years ago and old
guys tend to forget but I think I actually upgraded from WordPerfect.
Is it possible I upgraded from WP? Does it make any difference to the
upgrade CD?
If the upgrade is from WP, I have a second problem . . . finding a way
to get the WP on 3.5 floppies to Vista (which in itself sounds unpleasant).

BONUS: Also moving Outlook 2002 to the new PC. I have read competing
articles saying the migration takes some manual adjustments but the
result is good, and others arguing moving O 2002 is so difficult it is
not worth the effort. Knowledgeable opinions please. And is there an
'upgrade CD/DVD for Outlook?>>
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[jay lunis]

Thanks for the reply. The site was right . . . I get the following.
"Setup failed to locate a valid qualifying product on your machine.
Please select the drive where a qualifying product can be found."
But you say WP doesn't have to be installed. How do I get past the message?

 

[dgmacmi]

If your WP installation media is floppies and your new HP does not have a
floppy drive, you need another drive to use WP as a qualifying product. If
your new HP has a floppy drive, insert one of the WP install media {likely
the first floppy} and browse to the floppy drive when asked for a qualifying
product.

Don

 

[jay lunis]

Slow to respond but here I am.

Had to find a PC with a floppy drive.
Copied all floppies on to a CD. Put the CD in the CD drive on my new PC
and pointed MS Office to the CD (had to take out the Office CD to put in
the WP CD).
ERROR: Can't find a qualifying product.

Now what?

 

[dgmacmi]

Slow to respond but here I am.

Had to find a PC with a floppy drive.
Copied all floppies on to a CD. Put the CD in the CD drive on my new PC
and pointed MS Office to the CD (had to take out the Office CD to put in
the WP CD).
ERROR: Can't find a qualifying product.

Now what?

{SNIP}

Suspect that the reason is that the Office installation program does not
recognize the path to the file it uses for qualifying product or perhaps WP
version you have is not a qualifying product {do not know}. The Office
installation program is likely looking for path that ends is something like
Disk 1\{file name}. Been years since I attempted to copy installation
floppies to a CD. For the CD to work to install the program in place of the
floppies, each floppy needed to be in a separate folder on the CD with names
like Disk 1, Disk 2 etc.

I do not know what WP file or files the Office installation program is
looking for - perhaps someone else does. Not sure if it would work, but you
could look at the WP floppy 1 for likely *.exe files. Point the Office
install program not just at the CD you made, but to one of the likely files.

If you are sure that your version of WP is a qualifying product and do not
want to use your old Office upgrade version CD to qualify for Office 2007,
you could try a external USB floppy drive. A Google search reveals a number
of sources. Tiger Direct sells one for about $20. Amazon.com lists a Sony
drive for about $35.

Don

 

[jay lunis]

{SNIP}

Suspect that the reason is that the Office installation program does not
recognize the path to the file it uses for qualifying product or perhaps
WP version you have is not a qualifying product {do not know}. The
Office installation program is likely looking for path that ends is
something like Disk 1\{file name}. Been years since I attempted to copy
installation floppies to a CD. For the CD to work to install the program
in place of the floppies, each floppy needed to be in a separate folder
on the CD with names like Disk 1, Disk 2 etc.

I do not know what WP file or files the Office installation program is
looking for - perhaps someone else does. Not sure if it would work, but
you could look at the WP floppy 1 for likely *.exe files. Point the
Office install program not just at the CD you made, but to one of the
likely files.

If you are sure that your version of WP is a qualifying product and do
not want to use your old Office upgrade version CD to qualify for Office
2007, you could try a external USB floppy drive. A Google search reveals
a number of sources. Tiger Direct sells one for about $20. Amazon.com
lists a Sony drive for about $35.

Don

WP version 6. This is what I used looonng ago when I first upgraded to
Office. I'll try the separate folder idea since it is easy.

 

[jay lunis]

{SNIP}

Suspect that the reason is that the Office installation program does not
recognize the path to the file it uses for qualifying product or perhaps
WP version you have is not a qualifying product {do not know}. The
Office installation program is likely looking for path that ends is
something like Disk 1\{file name}. Been years since I attempted to copy
installation floppies to a CD. For the CD to work to install the program
in place of the floppies, each floppy needed to be in a separate folder
on the CD with names like Disk 1, Disk 2 etc.

I do not know what WP file or files the Office installation program is
looking for - perhaps someone else does. Not sure if it would work, but
you could look at the WP floppy 1 for likely *.exe files. Point the
Office install program not just at the CD you made, but to one of the
likely files.

If you are sure that your version of WP is a qualifying product and do
not want to use your old Office upgrade version CD to qualify for Office
2007, you could try a external USB floppy drive. A Google search reveals
a number of sources. Tiger Direct sells one for about $20. Amazon.com
lists a Sony drive for about $35.

Don

Decided to try our idea of different folders for each disk. Installed
perfectly, thanks.

 

[dgmacmi]

Decided to try our idea of different folders for each disk. Installed
perfectly, thanks.

You are welcome. Glad, something worked.

Don