Office 2004 Upgrade from Office 98

[Gene]

I have Office 98 running in OS 9.2 "Classic" on my
PowerBook G4. I am therefor eligilible to buy the Office
2004 for Mac Standard Edition "Version Upgrade". When I
install it, will the installer find Office 98 in the OS 9
Applications folder and then install Office 2004 in the OS
X Application folder?

Does this mean that I must always have my system running
Classic with OS 9 (and Office 98 installed) if I want to
reinstall Office 2004? In other words, I can't have an OS
X-only system? This would also mean that if future Mac
OS's don't support Classic, then I can't reinstall Office
2004. Any comments would be appreciated.

 

[Paul Ballou]

When you install if the installer doesn't locate the program you should be
given option of locating the folder yourself. You can remove office 98 but
keep the disk for reinstalling if you need to reinstall all you will need
to do is point the installer at the disk.

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[Paul Berkowitz]

I have Office 98 running in OS 9.2 "Classic" on my
PowerBook G4. I am therefor eligilible to buy the Office
2004 for Mac Standard Edition "Version Upgrade". When I
install it, will the installer find Office 98 in the OS 9
Applications folder and then install Office 2004 in the OS
X Application folder?

Does this mean that I must always have my system running
Classic with OS 9 (and Office 98 installed) if I want to
reinstall Office 2004? In other words, I can't have an OS
X-only system? This would also mean that if future Mac
OS's don't support Classic, then I can't reinstall Office
2004. Any comments would be appreciated.

If you don't have Office 98 installed when you want to reinstall Office
2004, you can just insert the Office 98 CD, without installing anything. Of
course you can't insert two CDs at the same time, so you'd have to copy one
of the CDs over as a disk image, I guess, before doing the 2004 Install.

Your computer does not have to be bootable into OS 9 to install a classic
app. You just have to set up Classic. I can see no reason why Apple would
remove that capability, but I see your point. In any case, you shouldn't
have to actually install it - just keep the Office 98 CD around.


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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.

 

[Gene van Troyer]

If you don't have Office 98 installed when you want to reinstall Office
2004, you can just insert the Office 98 CD, without installing anything. Of
course you can't insert two CDs at the same time, so you'd have to copy one
of the CDs over as a disk image, I guess, before doing the 2004 Install.

Or get yourself an inexpensive peripheral CDR/RW drive, which you may
actually find quite useful.

Gene van Troyer