When to delete Office 2004 and keep 2008

[aRKay]

When I installed Office 2008, I elected to keep Office 2004. Now that
Office 2008 seems to be working okay, should I use the 2008 Remove
Office utility to ditch 2004?

Any good reason other than belt and suspenders to keep Office 2004 on
the hard drive?

 

[CyberTaz]

That's each user's individual call - I intend to run *both* for quite some
time yet, but my needs are probably much different than yours. Of course,
you can always reinstall 2004 if the need arises

Just make sure that if you do continue to run both that you don't use E'rage
2004 *after* you start running E'rage 2008 - that can screw things up, but
the others play well together.

 

[Diane Ross]

When I installed Office 2008, I elected to keep Office 2004. Now that
Office 2008 seems to be working okay, should I use the 2008 Remove
Office utility to ditch 2004?

Any good reason other than belt and suspenders to keep Office 2004 on
the hard drive?

If you have the room, I would leave it for now. Just as insurance that the
next big update doesn't cause havoc. If you are like me you have kept
something in your garage for years then as soon as you throw it away you
need it. Installing Office 2004 after Office 2008 can cause problems with
the new fonts installed by 08.

 

[aRKay]

If you have the room, I would leave it for now. Just as insurance that the
next big update doesn't cause havoc. If you are like me you have kept
something in your garage for years then as soon as you throw it away you
need it. Installing Office 2004 after Office 2008 can cause problems with
the new fonts installed by 08.

Thanks.... I understand the next update should be released later this
week. I will hold off until the smoke settles.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Thanks.... I understand the next update should be released later this
week. I will hold off until the smoke settles.

Even after the smoke settles, there's no guarantee that someone won't
send you a file that requires VBA, or that you won't find new issues you
want to return to 2004 for. I'm keeping 2004 around forever, or at least
for the life of my current machine.