Office 2004 Upgrade Licensing

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Paul Fryer

I am a licensed user of MS Office 2001 on an ancient Mac. I am about
to buy a new iMac G5, and want to upgrade to Office 2004 Professional
(I want Virtual PC). Is my license on the old computer (which I plan
to de-commission) valid to entitle me to puchase the upgrade (rather
than buying new) for the new computer? I do not intend to run both
versions after the upgrade.

Are there likely to be any installation gotchas that I need to be
aware of (e.g. will the Office 2004 Upgrade Edition be looking out for
a previously installed version which won't be there) ?

I first posted this request in a discussion group on the Microsoft
site, but just can't seem to find my way back to see if there were any
replies.

Thanks,
 
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Mickey Stevens

I am a licensed user of MS Office 2001 on an ancient Mac. I am about
to buy a new iMac G5, and want to upgrade to Office 2004 Professional
(I want Virtual PC). Is my license on the old computer (which I plan
to de-commission) valid to entitle me to puchase the upgrade (rather
than buying new) for the new computer? I do not intend to run both
versions after the upgrade.

As long as you uninstall Office 2001 from the old machine, you are eligible
to use the Office 2004 Professional Upgrade on the G5.

You can find the Remove Office tool for your old machine here:
Are there likely to be any installation gotchas that I need to be
aware of (e.g. will the Office 2004 Upgrade Edition be looking out for
a previously installed version which won't be there) ?

You might need to have the Office 2001 CD handy as verification. I'm not
sure of this, but you might need to copy the Office 2001 folder from the CD
to the hard drive before the upgrade verification works. If you have
problems with upgrading, I'd try that first.
 
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Daiya Mitchell

You might need to have the Office 2001 CD handy as verification. I'm not
sure of this, but you might need to copy the Office 2001 folder from the CD
to the hard drive before the upgrade verification works. If you have
problems with upgrading, I'd try that first.

Reports are that inserting the 2001 CD when asked to locate the older copy
will work. If you lose (or have lost) the CD, you may have a problem,
although some also say that burning the installed program onto a CD works as
a substitute.

DM
 
P

Paul Fryer

Daiya Mitchell said:
Reports are that inserting the 2001 CD when asked to locate the older copy
will work. If you lose (or have lost) the CD, you may have a problem,
although some also say that burning the installed program onto a CD works as
a substitute.

DM

Thanks for the clarifications.

I hope it's not a complication, but my Office 2001 CD which I still
have is itself an upgrade from an earlier version. I am a long-time
user of Office, and this is about my third upgrade - the first one is
floppy disks which of course I can't use in the new iMac (and I
wouldn't want to input all those versions in succession anyway).

Paul.
 

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