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Office 97 Upgrade check
Name: Ben Date: April 21, 1999 at 23:04:21 Pacific
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Does anyone know how to bypass the office 97 old version check for the upgrade cd? My office 95 came on floppy and one of them has died. Since a reformat to cure many win 95 problems (nothing helps crap software like a reinstall) I can no longer install office 97. What does it search for? What can be changed in the setup to fool it ( like setuppp.inf for win95, or a registry key) Help!
what you are asking for is the name of a particular file in the office folder that, wink, if found out MS would be sure to fix, nudge, nudge.
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Response Number 4
Name: Scott Date: April 22, 1999 at 13:04:12 Pacific
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You can use the office manager disk that came with office 95. It will ask for the upgrade check when you install office 97. Point it to the a: drive and Office 97 should load after that. any questions give me an e-mail.
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Response Number 5
Name: Cary Date: June 13, 2000 at 03:14:01 Pacific
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Does anyone know how to bypass the office 97 old version check for the upgrade cd? When I moved, I lost all prior versions of excel, word. Now I can not install office 97 upgrade on my new pc.
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Response Number 6
Name: Dave Date: October 15, 2000 at 11:22:03 Pacific
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I'm having the same problem myself.... I do not have my old version of works anymore to upgrade from... This sucks.
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Response Number 7
Name: Scooter Date: November 1, 2000 at 10:35:10 Pacific
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If you connected to a network with an other machine which has Office installed, you could map the shared drive to your system and when you are asked to locate the folder, just point it to the shared folder. It works like a charm. (I have office5.1 installed and that is newer than office 97 and so is not valid for the update check...)
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