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Upgrade Office 97 to Office 2003
Name: cats Date: March 4, 2004 at 06:24:11 Pacific OS: Win 2k CPU/Ram: duron/256
Comment:
Any useful sites for information, tips etc on updating from Office 97 to Office 2003 - other than Microsoft? I need to look at differences in all the standard applications, Word, Excel, Access, PPT and Outlook? Thanks.
Name: safeTsurfa Date: March 4, 2004 at 08:42:59 Pacific
Reply:
I will tell you one huge difference, which may make you pause and reconsider.
Office 2003 is not backward compatible. Yes you can import old files into it, but it won't let you uninstall then go back to a prior version of Office. From what I hear, it also won't allow you to keep an older version installed alongside, which Office 2000 and 2002 did allow.
Check out Woody's Watch Office 2003 bulletins (http://www.woodyswatch.com/office2003/index.asp) for more information on the highs and lows of rushing into a "latest is greatest" Office upgrade.
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