If I buy and reinstall the download of office2008 Stu.Teach from this website will i lose all mypape

[gbachman]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I need to do this asap. I cant find my product key and i dont have time to look for it. I am livid but now is not the time to deal with it. I have a deadline of tonight for a major assignment and need to know that what I have already wont be lost when i purchase and download microsoft office from this website. Please anyone help me, a fast response is needed and appreciated.

 

[William Smith [MVP]]

I need to do this asap. I cant find my product key and i dont have
time to look for it. I am livid but now is not the time to deal with
it. I have a deadline of tonight for a major assignment and need to
know that what I have already wont be lost when i purchase and
download microsoft office from this website. Please anyone help me, a
fast response is needed and appreciated.

Office 2008 installers do not touch personal data that you've created.
Be sure that once you download and install that you may need to apply
subsequent updates (use Help menu --> Check for Updates) to get Office
up to the point where it can open your documents saved in later versions
of Office.

Of course, a backup of your files never hurts. Just drag them over to
another disk to copy.

Hope this helps!

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[CyberTaz]

Sorry nobody got back to you sooner, but newsgroups are *never* the venue
for immediate response - it may take as much as 24 hrs. for your message to
even appear, let alone be read & responded to. That's during "normal
business hrs.", Saturday evenings are even less likely to be when most of us
are spending our time in the newsgroups

Anyway, if it's still of any use I'll try to give some general advice but
your situation isn't clear - you've given no indication why you think you
need to reinstall Office 2008 in the first place. Obviously I can't say for
certain, but if you're experiencing some sort of problem with your current
installation it most likely isn't a *re*installation that will correct it.

Reinstalling complex apps such as Office is *never* the first step to
correcting a problem & rarely is it a part of the corrective
process. In fact, it can make matters worse & even cause other issues. In
those cases where it is necessary it is only effective if a proper Remove
Office is done first & then all pertinent updates need to be applied
afterward. Applications seldom go bad & the files that do go bad aren't
changed/fixed/removed by reinstalling, so at best it's a waste of time.

Short answer to your specific concern: No, any reinstallation will not cause
you to lose any user-created documents regardless of which app you created
them with. However, it's best to do a removal of the currently installed
software first using the Remove Office utility supplied with Office 2008.
You'll find guidelines here:

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/RemoveReinstall.html

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac