office 2007 pro

[frank]

Do I need to uninstall a previous version of office ( XP Pro?) before
installing 2007? I have a full version, not an upgrade.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

You don't *have* to but you can only run one version of Outlook at a time.
If you opt for Outlook 2002, you won't be able to send emails from the
various programs.

You may want to unintall Office XP so that you only have one product key to
deal with. Plus you'll save hard drive space.

 

[Peter Foldes]

frank

If you have the full retail version then yes. But back up everything that you need
to save (data, etc) before doing the latter

 

[Ronin]

I believe you are thinking of the OEM version that ships with new computers,
though I haven't tried one of those. Truth be known, MS has changed their
sales methods rather substantially and I haven't kept up on how they all
work.

A true, store-bought retail copy of Office 2007 (not OEM!) will install over
any version of Office from Office 2000 on. (I'm not sure about 97/98 or
earlier.) This is basic Microsoft policy. In fact, in the case of Office
2007, you have a choice of keeping the older version and running the two
versions side by side (noting the Outlook issue pointed out by JoAnn). I
just tested, so I can safely say that the *retail* version of Office 2007
behaves as expected.

Guess I should add there are several possible issues you may encounter when
upgrading from a trial version of Office 2007 to paid version. Here's a
rough collection of pertinent articles.
http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?catalog=LCID=1033&query=office+trial+2007&mode=r

 

[Peter Foldes]

Ronin

Since the OP mentioned that he has Office XP Pro installed at present that made me
understand that he has a Retail Full version of Office 2007 that he wants to
install.
I am a firm believer in a complete clean install of any full Retail product. Always
found that by Upgrading anything you always lose something in the translation
(install)