Office 97

[Cliff Hartfield]

I am running Office 97 and want to upgrade to Office XP
or Office 2003. Can this be done, and can I keep
documents created in 97 or must I start over with the
full version instead of upgrading?

Cliff Hartfield

 

[DSL-Dave]

Usually, all documents created go into the 'My Documents" folder.
This folder is untouched during upgrades, so your documents should remain
intact.
I would strongly suggest that you do a backup before doing an upgrade.
If your only concern is your documents, and if you have not changed the
default document path, then you only need to back up the "My Documents"
folder.

 

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I am running Office 97 and want to upgrade to Office XP
or Office 2003. Can this be done, and can I keep
documents created in 97 or must I start over with the
full version instead of upgrading?

Cliff Hartfield

Yes, it can be done. The Office install won't damage any of
your exsisting docs and they should all remain readable.
Not sure what your last sentence means, but I don't see
where you'd have to start over with anything unless you have
lots of macros, autocorrects and things running in 97.

For safety's sake, be certain to back up all your *.doc and
*.dot files, just in case you lose something or have an
install problem. Always back up data.
Same goes for Excel, PP, etc. files you've created -
you'll be updating all of them if you are installingn the
Office Suite.

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[Beth Melton]

Hi Dave,

Provided you didn't place any documents in any of the Office folder that contain a hidden file called MSCREATE.DIR then you should be fine.

These folders were created by the Office 97 installation and are removed if you uninstall.

Otherwise the installation will not remove any of your documents.
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