Office Shortcut Bar Install From Earlier Office Versions

[Rich]

I have read in other posts that an Office Shortcut Bar can be installed in
Office 2003 using an earlier version of Office and selecting a "Custom"
install. My questions is: Do I have to de-install Office 2003 before trying
to install the OSB from a prior version?

And are there any other "tricks" I should know before I do this?

Thanks All!

 

[Paul Ballou]

No you can install just the OSB without uninstalling 2003. I don't believe
you will have any problems. I have installed just clip gallery doing a
custom install and have had no problems.

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control.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

No, I have installed the OSB from Office XP on several installations and
have had no problems except for the prompt to install patches for Office XP
when the only component I have on this system is the OSB. I just ignore
them.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Rich asked:

| I have read in other posts that an Office Shortcut Bar can be
| installed in Office 2003 using an earlier version of Office and
| selecting a "Custom" install. My questions is: Do I have to
| de-install Office 2003 before trying to install the OSB from a prior
| version?
|
| And are there any other "tricks" I should know before I do this?
|
| Thanks All!

 

[John Ski]

Subject: Re: Office Shortcut Bar Install From Earlier Office Versions

From: "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
(e-mail address removed)
Date: 10/13/2004 12:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time
Message-id: <#[email protected]>

No, I have installed the OSB from Office XP on several installations and
have had no problems except for the prompt to install patches for Office XP
when the only component I have on this system is the OSB. I just ignore
them.

--Â
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, Rich asked:

| I have read in other posts that an Office Shortcut Bar can be
| installed in Office 2003 using an earlier version of Office and
| selecting a "Custom" install. My questions is: Do I have to
| de-install Office 2003 before trying to install the OSB from a prior
| version?
|
| And are there any other "tricks" I should know before I do this?
|
| Thanks All!

Millie,
I have the greatest respect for your contributions to the NG and your knowledge
of Office. However, I find the above response extremely interesting, since you
have been quite outspoken in your defense of the decision by MS to abandon the
OSB. You have also been a little condescending to those of us who feel that
decision was a foolish mistake and to those who have begged in this forum for
its return. Have you had a change of heart and decided that the OSB(as some
have been saying) is in fact a useful tool for novice Office users?

Cheers,
John
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
***Arthur C. Clarke***

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

These installations are for those who can't keep the volume down when
whining about the loss of the OSB - it is easier on my nerves to install it
from an earlier version (which I have prominently advocated if you read my
posts about the lack of the OSB) than to have to listen to the gnarling and
gnashing of teeth and other bodily parts on a daily basis.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.

After furious head scratching, John Ski asked:

|| Subject: Re: Office Shortcut Bar Install From Earlier Office Versions
|| From: "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"
|| (e-mail address removed)
|| Date: 10/13/2004 12:15 AM Eastern Daylight Time
|| Message-id: <#[email protected]>
||
|| No, I have installed the OSB from Office XP on several installations
|| and
|| have had no problems except for the prompt to install patches for
|| Office XP when the only component I have on this system is the OSB.
|| I just ignore them.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, Rich asked:
||
||| I have read in other posts that an Office Shortcut Bar can be
||| installed in Office 2003 using an earlier version of Office and
||| selecting a "Custom" install. My questions is: Do I have to
||| de-install Office 2003 before trying to install the OSB from a prior
||| version?
|||
||| And are there any other "tricks" I should know before I do this?
|||
||| Thanks All!
||
||
| Millie,
| I have the greatest respect for your contributions to the NG and your
| knowledge of Office. However, I find the above response extremely
| interesting, since you have been quite outspoken in your defense of
| the decision by MS to abandon the OSB. You have also been a little
| condescending to those of us who feel that decision was a foolish
| mistake and to those who have begged in this forum for its return.
| Have you had a change of heart and decided that the OSB(as some have
| been saying) is in fact a useful tool for novice Office users?
|
| Cheers,
| John
| "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
| ***Arthur C. Clarke***