Vista system won't look at my "95 product so that I can install my

[dlmjamc]

I am tring to install my XP MS Office 2002 Professional. in order to do that
I have to install my MS office 97. In order to do that I have to install my
MS Office 95. At the third step of the installation process, after I have
been queried to input my "CD KEY" it gives me my product ID # and then tells
me it is going to load into "MS OFFICE" and then starts to search for
previously installed MS OFFICE products. IT just keeps searching,looping,
effectively blocking the install. I have bought a new computer because my old
one has crashed. I have purchased 3 different Office Suites between 1995 and
2002. I would like to use the software that I have bought and paid for, I
have all of my CD keys and the original discs. How do I get past the
"searching for installed products" from the '95 suite so that the '97 suite
can be loaded so that the 2002 product can be loaded?

 

[Peter Foldes]

You start by loading the Office XP Pro. When it asks for a qualifying product then
you put in your Office 95 or Office 97 install CD as proof. You do not need to load
the previous versions.

Uninstall all Office products and versions that you have already installed and start
anew as per above

 

[dlmjamc]

Excellent. I had done it that way in the past and it hadn't worked, but it
did this time-with a little wrinkle of puting my "97 upggrade version in the
CD drive because it still didn't want to "see" my "95 version, which in the
past was always the disc I had to put in because the others are upgrades that
always looked back to the "95 version.

 

[dlmjamc]

Excellent-Thank you, it worked-sort of. It still wouldn't see the "95 disc so
I used my "97 disc and it accepted it, even though it was an upgrade.