Office 2000 Pro vs. Office 2000 Small Business

[Claire K.]

Can anyone tell me what the difference is in programs
included in Office 2000 Professional vs. Small Biz? I
wound up with both installed on my system, and I want to
delete one (I now have less than 200 MG free space on my
system).

Diagnostics say Pro is 162 MG and Small Biz is 317 MG, but
nowhere (incl. telephone Customer Support) can I find info
on what the differences are. (Does one of them not include
Power Point or Access or something?) All individual Office
programs (including PP and Access), when accessed, point me
to the registration for what I think is the Professional
license. I can't find any subdirectories or files for
Small Biz that would account for the additional 317 MG
supposedly being used by it on my system.

Could the difference merely be the difference between a
"full" installation and a "recommended" installation? (I'm
just guessing that that might have happened).

Also, are there any compatibility issues between using,
say, Small Biz on a laptop for remote access into a server
running Pro? Or is that a matter of what 3rd party access
software (pcAnywhere, Citrix, etc.) you use?

 

[Brian]

Office 2000 SBE contains: Publisher, Word, Excel and Outlook.

Office 2000 Pro contains everything in SBI plus: Access and PowerPoint

If you did the full installation of each, it could account for the size
difference. I'd be careful uninstalling. Removing one could remove
peices of the other. The best choice would be to remove both and then
reinstall just the pieces that you need.

 

[Claire K.]

Brian,
Thanks for the info. By rights, Pro should be
significantly bigger than SBE, to account for the addition
of Access and PP, and yet my system says the opposite --
that SBE is significantly bigger than Pro. Odd. Now to
see if we still have the disks so we can uninstall and
reinstall as per your suggestion...

Assuming we find the disks, how worried should I be about
doing a system backup first on the laptop? We don't have a
tape drive or a CD-R drive on the laptop and our
(networked) desktop system is also bursting at the seams so
can't be used as a fallback backup. (So, a backup of the
laptop would be difficult). How risky is it to do the
un/reinstall without backing up first?

Thanks for your help.

Claire K.