INSTALLING OFFICE 2000 (UPGRADE) ON NEW COMPUTER

[OFFICEGUY]

Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a new
desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years ago)?
Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

How to buy the 2007 Microsoft Office suites:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX101678741033.aspx?ofcresset=1


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Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience -
Windows Vista Enthusiast

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Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a new
desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years ago)?
Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[DL]

To install an upgrade version you require a previous qualifying version. The
older version forms part of your licence to use the upgrade version.
Offfice 2000 is not fully compatible with Vista, if that is what you have on
your new PC

 

[macropod]

Hi,

I'd suggest finding contacting you local MS support office and asking them for help.

 

[macropod]

Hi DL,

With Office 2000 on Vista, only Outlook has any compatability issues and these can largely be worked around - see:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm

 

[DL]

I'm aware of that

Hi DL,

With Office 2000 on Vista, only Outlook has any compatability issues and
these can largely be worked around - see:
http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/vista.htm

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

To install an upgrade version you require a previous qualifying version.
The older version forms part of your licence to use the upgrade version.
Offfice 2000 is not fully compatible with Vista, if that is what you have
on your new PC

 

[DL]

Since 2000 went out of support some years ago and the qualifying product is
part of the Licence for the upgrade, its hardly likely MS will or can help,
other than suggesting you buy a new version of Office.
I believe the upgrade cd qualifies for use with a later edition upgrade

Hi,

I'd suggest finding contacting you local MS support office and asking them
for help.

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a
new desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years
ago)? Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[macropod]

Hi DL,

According to Microsoft:
"The Office 2000 extended support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009."
IMHO that hardly equates with your statement that "2000 went out of support some years ago".

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Since 2000 went out of support some years ago and the qualifying product is
part of the Licence for the upgrade, its hardly likely MS will or can help,
other than suggesting you buy a new version of Office.
I believe the upgrade cd qualifies for use with a later edition upgrade

Hi,

I'd suggest finding contacting you local MS support office and asking them
for help.

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a
new desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years
ago)? Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[Peter Foldes]

Can you point to the link where you saw what you quoted. I be interested to see that

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Hi DL,

According to Microsoft:
"The Office 2000 extended support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009."
IMHO that hardly equates with your statement that "2000 went out of support some years ago".

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Since 2000 went out of support some years ago and the qualifying product is
part of the Licence for the upgrade, its hardly likely MS will or can help,
other than suggesting you buy a new version of Office.
I believe the upgrade cd qualifies for use with a later edition upgrade

Hi,

I'd suggest finding contacting you local MS support office and asking them
for help.

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a
new desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years
ago)? Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

It went out of "mainstream" support years ago and, as such, will receive no
improvements except for critical security patches.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact.
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


After furious head scratching, macropod asked:

| Hi DL,
|
| According to Microsoft:
| "The Office 2000 extended support period will last from July 1, 2004
| through July 14, 2009." IMHO that hardly equates with your statement
| that "2000 went out of support some years ago".
|
|
| || Since 2000 went out of support some years ago and the qualifying
|| product is part of the Licence for the upgrade, its hardly likely MS
|| will or can help, other than suggesting you buy a new version of
|| Office.
|| I believe the upgrade cd qualifies for use with a later edition
|| upgrade
||
||
|| ||| Hi,
|||
||| I'd suggest finding contacting you local MS support office and
||| asking them for help.
|||
||| --
||| Cheers
||| macropod
||| [MVP - Microsoft Word]
|||
|||
||| |||| Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set
|||| on a new desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me
|||| install without a previous version (I threw away the CD with the
|||| previous version years ago)? Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[macropod]

Hi Peter,

See: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeoffice/en-us

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Can you point to the link where you saw what you quoted. I be interested to see that

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Peter

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Hi DL,

According to Microsoft:
"The Office 2000 extended support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009."
IMHO that hardly equates with your statement that "2000 went out of support some years ago".

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Since 2000 went out of support some years ago and the qualifying product is
part of the Licence for the upgrade, its hardly likely MS will or can help,
other than suggesting you buy a new version of Office.
I believe the upgrade cd qualifies for use with a later edition upgrade

Hi,

I'd suggest finding contacting you local MS support office and asking them
for help.

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a
new desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years
ago)? Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[macropod]

Hi Milly,

I understand that. The issue for the OP is not whether Office 2K is in mainstream or extended support, but whether MS might be able
to help with reinstalling an upgrade version for which the qualifying disks have now been discarded. DL's comments about the support
status and the inferences drawn from that as to what MS may or may not do aren't especially helpful.

 

[Peter Foldes]

macropod

This is what is say's.

Office 2000 - Microsoft will continue to offer mainstream support for Office 2000 through June 30, 2004. The >Office 2000 extended support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009. The latest Office 2000 >service pack is required for hotfix support

It means that you are able to get hotfix for the Office 2000 version but it does not say that you are able to call and get support for the Off 2000 . That has ended after the agreement between MS and Sun


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Peter

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Hi Peter,

See: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeoffice/en-us

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Can you point to the link where you saw what you quoted. I be interested to see that

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Peter

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Hi DL,

According to Microsoft:
"The Office 2000 extended support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009."
IMHO that hardly equates with your statement that "2000 went out of support some years ago".

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Since 2000 went out of support some years ago and the qualifying product is
part of the Licence for the upgrade, its hardly likely MS will or can help,
other than suggesting you buy a new version of Office.
I believe the upgrade cd qualifies for use with a later edition upgrade


Hi,

I'd suggest finding contacting you local MS support office and asking them
for help.

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a
new desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years
ago)? Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[macropod]

Hi Peter,

You've lost me - what has Sun got to do with MS support for Office 2000? I think you've maybe confused things with some other
product (Java?).

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


macropod

This is what is say's.

Office 2000 - Microsoft will continue to offer mainstream support for Office 2000 through June 30, 2004. The >Office 2000 extended
support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009. The latest Office 2000 >service pack is required for hotfix
support

It means that you are able to get hotfix for the Office 2000 version but it does not say that you are able to call and get support
for the Off 2000 . That has ended after the agreement between MS and Sun


--
Peter

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Hi Peter,

See: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeoffice/en-us

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Can you point to the link where you saw what you quoted. I be interested to see that

--
Peter

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Hi DL,

According to Microsoft:
"The Office 2000 extended support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009."
IMHO that hardly equates with your statement that "2000 went out of support some years ago".

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Since 2000 went out of support some years ago and the qualifying product is
part of the Licence for the upgrade, its hardly likely MS will or can help,
other than suggesting you buy a new version of Office.
I believe the upgrade cd qualifies for use with a later edition upgrade


Hi,

I'd suggest finding contacting you local MS support office and asking them
for help.

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a
new desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years
ago)? Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[Peter Foldes]

No confusion. Sun (Java) same thing. Java is made by Sun

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Peter

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Hi Peter,

You've lost me - what has Sun got to do with MS support for Office 2000? I think you've maybe confused things with some other
product (Java?).

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


macropod

This is what is say's.

Office 2000 - Microsoft will continue to offer mainstream support for Office 2000 through June 30, 2004. The >Office 2000 extended
support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009. The latest Office 2000 >service pack is required for hotfix
support

It means that you are able to get hotfix for the Office 2000 version but it does not say that you are able to call and get support
for the Off 2000 . That has ended after the agreement between MS and Sun


--
Peter

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Hi Peter,

See: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeoffice/en-us

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Can you point to the link where you saw what you quoted. I be interested to see that

--
Peter

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Hi DL,

According to Microsoft:
"The Office 2000 extended support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009."
IMHO that hardly equates with your statement that "2000 went out of support some years ago".

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Since 2000 went out of support some years ago and the qualifying product is
part of the Licence for the upgrade, its hardly likely MS will or can help,
other than suggesting you buy a new version of Office.
I believe the upgrade cd qualifies for use with a later edition upgrade


Hi,

I'd suggest finding contacting you local MS support office and asking them
for help.

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a
new desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years
ago)? Any suggestions? Thanks!

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Officeguy,

If you do not have any of the qualifying products listed here
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210437/en-us
you can phone Microsoft product support (http://support.microsoft.com) about getting a replacement product key. For this type of
issue the state of support (i.e. mainstream vs extended) mentioned in previous replies, shouldn't matter, but it would likely be a
support call that would require you to pay for the support.

For your new computer, especially if running Vista you may want to consider upgrading, or trying the 60 day free trial of Office
2007 as an alternative
http://trymicrosoftoffice.com
as there won't be any additional updates for Office 2000.

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Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a new
desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years ago)?
Any suggestions? Thanks!>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[macropod]

Yes, but this had nothing to do with *Office*

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


No confusion. Sun (Java) same thing. Java is made by Sun

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Peter

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Hi Peter,

You've lost me - what has Sun got to do with MS support for Office 2000? I think you've maybe confused things with some other
product (Java?).

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


macropod

This is what is say's.

Office 2000 - Microsoft will continue to offer mainstream support for Office 2000 through June 30, 2004. The >Office 2000 extended
support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009. The latest Office 2000 >service pack is required for hotfix
support

It means that you are able to get hotfix for the Office 2000 version but it does not say that you are able to call and get support
for the Off 2000 . That has ended after the agreement between MS and Sun


--
Peter

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Hi Peter,

See: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeoffice/en-us

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Can you point to the link where you saw what you quoted. I be interested to see that

--
Peter

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Hi DL,

According to Microsoft:
"The Office 2000 extended support period will last from July 1, 2004 through July 14, 2009."
IMHO that hardly equates with your statement that "2000 went out of support some years ago".

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Since 2000 went out of support some years ago and the qualifying product is
part of the Licence for the upgrade, its hardly likely MS will or can help,
other than suggesting you buy a new version of Office.
I believe the upgrade cd qualifies for use with a later edition upgrade


Hi,

I'd suggest finding contacting you local MS support office and asking them
for help.

--
Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]


Help! I'm trying to install Office 2000 (upgrade) from my CD set on a
new desktop computer that I bought, but it won't let me install without a
previous version (I threw away the CD with the previous version years
ago)? Any suggestions? Thanks!