Office 2008 Installation

[archiva]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

MS Friends,
I installed MS Office 2008, following the directions. When the program asked if I wanted to delete earlier versions I, of course, clicked yes. (Who would not want to redeem disk space?) When I went to boot up the program, the program asked for earlier versions--which were no longer on the hard drive. No problem, I thought. I have my original upgrade disks from MS Office X and MS Office 2004. Noooo. The programs were grayed out; I could not, therefore, "browse" to them; and, as a result, I have no way of validating my program. I am hosed.

Is there a workaround for this situation? Or must I install multiple earlier versions of MS Office? In any case, a program that invites you to delete program that you will later need in the validation process strikes me as weird in the extreme.
Thank you,
Paula

 

[Diane Ross]

I installed MS Office 2008, following the directions. When the program asked
if I wanted to delete earlier versions I, of course, clicked yes. (Who would
not want to redeem disk space?) When I went to boot up the program, the
program asked for earlier versions--which were no longer on the hard drive. No
problem, I thought. I have my original upgrade disks from MS Office X and MS
Office 2004. Noooo. The programs were grayed out; I could not, therefore,
"browse" to them; and, as a result, I have no way of validating my program. I
am hosed.

I believe the installer is looking for your previous install of your
Entourage Identity not the previous version.

Even if you had a upgrade DVD, it would not start until it had verified that
you had the previous version to validate the upgrade DVD.

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[archiva]

MS Friends:
Thank you for your reply. I think that my follow-up post went astray.

I have uploaded two screenshots: one showing the dialogue boxes and one showing my original discs from 2001 and 2004.

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I've upgraded from MS Word 1.0 to Office and onward, but I don't have any discs before 2001. I imagine if I looked in the basement, I could find several older versions, but my Mac would not even be able to read them; they are on old floppies. (Besides, even the IRS doesn't ask that you retain documents older than 5 years.)

I don't know what an Entourage ID is, whether I've ever had one, or where to find one.
Thank you,
Paula

 

[Diane Ross]

I've upgraded from MS Word 1.0 to Office and onward, but I don't have any
discs before 2001. I imagine if I looked in the basement, I could find several
older versions, but my Mac would not even be able to read them; they are on
old floppies. (Besides, even the IRS doesn't ask that you retain documents
older than 5 years.)

Great screenshots!

Just insert your last Office DVD and browse to that version. I'm not sure
how you got to the window that asks if you want to delete old versions. I
don't recommend that until you are finished with your upgrade. Sometimes you
have to manually export your data when Entourage can't import from the
Identity.

Diane