Office 97 to 2007 upgrade

[Therese]

I currently am on Office 97 using Outlook, Excel, and Word. (Yeah - I know -
foolish user!). I want to now upgrade to 2007. I plan to purchase the Office
Small Business 2007. Will this be a problem making such a big leap? Also, I
am interested in Publisher (which is included in the 2007 upgrade). Do I
actually need to install Publisher first?

I have already installed Service Pack 3.5, if that info is helpful to these
questions.

 

[LVTravel]

I currently am on Office 97 using Outlook, Excel, and Word. (Yeah - I
know -
foolish user!). I want to now upgrade to 2007. I plan to purchase the
Office
Small Business 2007. Will this be a problem making such a big leap? Also,
I
am interested in Publisher (which is included in the 2007 upgrade). Do I
actually need to install Publisher first?

I have already installed Service Pack 3.5, if that info is helpful to
these
questions.

Office 97 is NOT an upgrade qualifier for Office 2007 so you will need to
purchase the retail full install package of SBE 2007. If you already have
97 installed on your XP operating system machine you can continue to use it
if you install the retail full package of Office 2007 using the customize
install and telling the install program not to overwrite any of the Office
97 programs (except Outlook as there can only be one version of Outlook on a
computer at a time. There is also an issue with older Outlook pst file
being totally compatible with Outlook 2007 (size, I believe) and there is a
fix available and I would recommend Google or reading about it in MS
knowledge base.

For upgrade version qualifications
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/suites/FX101754511033.aspx

For running more than one version of Office
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091/en-us

PST file information (size) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830336
PST manage http://support.microsoft.com/kb/287070
PST configuring size limits http://support.microsoft.com/kb/832925

Hope this helps, let us know