Upgrade to Office 2000 from Office 95 on XP

[Mary Ann]

I purchased a new Dell computer and installed Office 95 from the original disk and then installed the upgrade to Office 2000 (had these on my old computer). Everything seems to be working OK except the Office Toolbar is still the 95 Toolbar and Word and Excel will not open from the toolbar. Also about every 5th time I turn my computer on, the Office 2000 toolbar appears right beside the 95 toolbar. I would like to delete the Office 95 toolbar. Can anyone help with this? Thank you.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Click on the 95 toolbar office icon and select Close. When it asks if you
want it to start the next time you boot, say no.

By the way, you did not need to install Office 95 prior to 2000, all you
needed to do was to "show" the Office 95 CD when Office 2000 asked for the
qualifying product.


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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Mary Ann asked:

| I purchased a new Dell computer and installed Office 95 from the
| original disk and then installed the upgrade to Office 2000 (had
| these on my old computer). Everything seems to be working OK except
| the Office Toolbar is still the 95 Toolbar and Word and Excel will
| not open from the toolbar. Also about every 5th time I turn my
| computer on, the Office 2000 toolbar appears right beside the 95
| toolbar. I would like to delete the Office 95 toolbar. Can anyone
| help with this? Thank you.

 

[Cliff Keene41]

Milly (or Others),
Will the procedure you list below work for an upgrade from Office 97 to
Office 2003? Here's my situation. I have new Win97 computer networked to my
old Win95 computer w/ working copy of Office 97. I also have an almost
complete copy of my Win95 C:drive on my Win97 H: partition. I have both CD
and DVD (which reads CDs) on Win97. I have the Upgrade Version of Office
2003 Pro. I know that if I install my old Office 97 on the WinXP, the
upgrade will work. I'd like not to do that. I'm not sure if the install
program might "accept" the Office 97 thru the network (mapped as P drive) or
via the H:\Win95copy\win95c\etc. I plan to launch the update from my E: CD
R/W. Would it be a good idea to put in my Office97 disk into the D: DVD CD
Rom (making sure to cancel the autostart that would try and setup Office97)?

If none of the above will work, let me see if I have the procedure that you
describe below correct: The Upgrade will say something like "can't find
qualifying product.." and at that point I take out my Office 2003 disk and
replace it with my Office 97 disk, then type something, and then replace the
Office 2003 Disk. BTW, I plan to do the COMPLETE installation of Office 03
Pro, but at this time I don't think I'll install the 2nd disk which has the
Business Contact Manager for MS Outlook, unless this is the only time to do
it. (I do maintain a large sking mail list, but not sure if the Cont. Mgr
will help that much.)
/s/ Cliff Keene

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[conniem63]

I don't know anything about office updates all i know is that i have winxp home edition but still have office 2000 in excel, worksheet, and others. outlook is updated but i hate using it do i need to? my question is what kind of updates is critcal updating in office to keep my pc safe? i dont use anything in office though can i delete office programs without harming my system. i only use pc to play games or web surf and music. im confused about the office updates. and i need help with configuration of my data my files are mixed up with old and new and unreconized ones now it wont reconize the main directory can you help or know who can help with this too? thank you from connie