Upgrade from Mac Office 2004 to Office X?

[myinfo]

Hi everyone,

I've been running Mac Office 2004 and I want to upgrade it to Office X.
Do I really have to buy the complete version of Office X to do this, or
can I just buy the Office X upgrade?

The reason I ask is that from what I've been able to research, the
Office X upgrade only allows you to upgrade from Office 2001 but not
from Office 2004. Am I correct about this? And if I am correct, does
anyone know why Microsoft would have implemented such a policy?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Kind regards,

Jeff

 

[Jeff]

Wait! don't answer that. just realized 2004 is the upgrade from v.X.

sorry for the idiocy on my part.

Jeff

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi Jeff,

Office 2004 is *more recent* than Office v.X. Office v.X came out in 2001,
Office 2004 came out in 2004. This also explains why there is no upgrade
from 2004 to v.X; going that way would, strictly speaking, be a downgrade.
So if you are using Office 2004, you're running the latest version of Mac
Office, and there's no need to upgrade right now.

Hi everyone,

I've been running Mac Office 2004 and I want to upgrade it to Office X.
Do I really have to buy the complete version of Office X to do this, or
can I just buy the Office X upgrade?

The reason I ask is that from what I've been able to research, the
Office X upgrade only allows you to upgrade from Office 2001 but not
from Office 2004. Am I correct about this? And if I am correct, does
anyone know why Microsoft would have implemented such a policy?

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

Kind regards,

Jeff

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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