Please help me to re-install Office on my D drive to save space on my C drive:

[Lewis]

Please help me to re-install Office on my D drive to save
space on my C drive:

Dear Microsoft Community,

I need your help. My email is crashing because my C drive
is too full. I am trying to transfer files and programs
to my D drive.

I have Microsoft Office XP Professional running on my
Windows 2000 Professional Operating System, and I have
created many documents in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (but
I have not yet used Outlook). The documents I have
created, I have saved to various folders on my D drive and
on my new external drive (I have a laptop).

Since I need to create as much space as posssible on my C
drive (my email in Outlook Express is crashing because my
C drive is too full and I have too many messages == but
that is another story), I want to uninstall the Office
program and re-install it on my D drive, but my question
is can I do this and not create any problems?

As I said above, the documents I have created are saved in
folders, but my concern is if I uninstall and re-install
Office, will I be losing any valuable documents I have
created? I do not need any of the templates or other
default things that came with Office. I just need to be
able to open and edit the documents I have created with
Office after I uninstall Office and re-install it to my D
drive.

Thanks very much if anyone could be so kind as to help me
with this question.

Warm regards,

Lewis Weiss lewisweiss(removethis)@earthlink.net

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

You should be able to uninstall and reinstall to different drives without
harming current documents. BUT!!!

If you are concerned about this, it would seem reasonable to assume you
don't have a decent backup of your documents? Maybe on CD ROM? In that case,
you need to do that anyway, and before you muck with anything like
reinstallations. Who knows your computer will not crash next time you log
on?

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[Sonia]

It seems like you may want to find a permanent solution to your Outlook
Express problem. A great resource for info is the Inside Outlook Express
website at http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/. Moving your Outlook Express
store folder to the D: drive would be a quick and easy resolution and then
you wouldn't need to mess with uninstalling and reinstalling Office. See
the links at the top of the page at
http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com/files/index.htm