Installed Beta w/out backing up 2003, am i in trouble at Feb. 1?

[Pinky]

Well title is self explanitory. I installed Office 2007 Beta 2 w/ out
thinking it through and backing up 2003, what can i do exactly to get 2003
back when Feb. 1, 2007 rolls around and Beta expires?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

REmove Office 2007 from the Add/Remove option in Control Panel, reboot,
insert your Office 2003 CD and install.

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Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
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After furious head scratching, Pinky asked:

| Well title is self explanitory. I installed Office 2007 Beta 2 w/ out
| thinking it through and backing up 2003, what can i do exactly to get
| 2003 back when Feb. 1, 2007 rolls around and Beta expires?

 

[Pinky]

Sounds simple but here is the problem, my IP guy installed it for me and took
the disk w/ him for some strange reason so i guess its time to work on
getting it back. Thanks Milly for your help.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Never, never, never let someone walk off with your software. Remember how
much you paid for Office? That "IT guy" just stole that amount from you.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Sounds simple but here is the problem, my IP guy installed it for me and
took
the disk w/ him for some strange reason so i guess its time to work on
getting it back. Thanks Milly for your help.

REmove Office 2007 from the Add/Remove option in Control Panel, reboot,
insert your Office 2003 CD and install.

--
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, Pinky asked:

| Well title is self explanitory. I installed Office 2007 Beta 2 w/ out
| thinking it through and backing up 2003, what can i do exactly to get
| 2003 back when Feb. 1, 2007 rolls around and Beta expires?

 

[LVTravel]

One quick thought also, I haven't been following the 2007 beta fiasco too
much but as I understand it that if you save data files in the native 2007
instead of the Office 97-03 format you may have great problems retrieving
them when you go back to 2003 version.

Someone correct me if I am wrong.

Sounds simple but here is the problem, my IP guy installed it for me and
took
the disk w/ him for some strange reason so i guess its time to work on
getting it back. Thanks Milly for your help.

REmove Office 2007 from the Add/Remove option in Control Panel, reboot,
insert your Office 2003 CD and install.

--
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, Pinky asked:

| Well title is self explanitory. I installed Office 2007 Beta 2 w/ out
| thinking it through and backing up 2003, what can i do exactly to get
| 2003 back when Feb. 1, 2007 rolls around and Beta expires?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

That's my understanding as well. You'll need to impose upon someone with
2007 to do a Save As.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

One quick thought also, I haven't been following the 2007 beta fiasco too
much but as I understand it that if you save data files in the native 2007
instead of the Office 97-03 format you may have great problems retrieving
them when you go back to 2003 version.

Someone correct me if I am wrong.

Sounds simple but here is the problem, my IP guy installed it for me and
took
the disk w/ him for some strange reason so i guess its time to work on
getting it back. Thanks Milly for your help.

REmove Office 2007 from the Add/Remove option in Control Panel, reboot,
insert your Office 2003 CD and install.

--
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, Pinky asked:

| Well title is self explanitory. I installed Office 2007 Beta 2 w/ out
| thinking it through and backing up 2003, what can i do exactly to get
| 2003 back when Feb. 1, 2007 rolls around and Beta expires?

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

You can enable the 2002 and 2003 versions of Word, Excel, and
Powerpoint to open native-format 2007 files by installing the
converters at
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/converter.mspx . As
always, the conversions might not be perfect...

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Thank you for the link.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

 

[LVTravel]

Boy do I know what you mean by not converting. My only problem when running
multiple versions of Office on a computer (97, 00, XP & 03) is when 03 tries
to open a 97 file that has a mail merge in it. Totally screwed up. I live
with it and try to make sure that 97 is what I use to open that mail merge
file but when I make the mistake, that's what backups are for.