OFF97: Upgrading Microsoft Office 4.x or 95

ID: Q162134

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SUMMARY

When you upgrade to Office 97 or one of the Office 97 programs, you may find that the behavior of the Setup program differs from earlier versions of the Microsoft Office upgrade Setup program. This article discusses the upgrade process and how it works.

NOTE: This article discusses the Microsoft Office 97 upgrade process. However, the information presented in this article applies to the Setup programs for the individual Microsoft Office 97 programs.


MORE INFORMATION

During setup, after you enter your name and company and obtain your product identification number, you will receive a dialog box prompting you to accept C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office as the destination folder for all of the Microsoft Office 97 program files. This is the default folder whether you upgrade from an earlier version of Microsoft Office or install Microsoft Office for the first time.

To change the folder to which Office is installed, click the Change Folder button, and select a different folder. If the Setup program detects files from an earlier version of Microsoft Office, Setup will ask if you would like to remove the program files that belong to the earlier version. Therefore, it is not necessary to change the folder to the earlier version of Microsoft Office to remove the old files.

After you select the type of installation that you would like (for example Custom, Typical, Run From Server, or Run From CD), you will receive the following message if you are upgrading from Microsoft Office versions 4.x or 95: 


   The Microsoft Office Upgrade Wizard has detected one or more Office
   4.x or 95 components on your computer. Removing these components is
   recommended and will not affect your existing data. Remove ALL old
   Office 4.x and 95 components now?

What Applications Will the Upgrade Wizard Remove?

The Upgrade Wizard determines which programs are currently installed, creates a list of files and settings used by those programs, and then removes them.

The table below illustrates which program files the Upgrade Wizard will remove if you click Yes to remove old Office 4.x and 95 components. 

If you're
using the Setup
program for this             The Upgrade Wizard removes this
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
                   Microsoft     Microsoft      Microsoft      Microsoft
                    Access         Excel        PowerPoint       Word
                   2.x and 95    5.x and 95     4.x and 95     6.x and 95
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Microsoft Office 97
Professional Edition   x             x               x             x

Microsoft Office 97
Standard Edition                     x               x             x

Microsoft Access 97    x

Microsoft Excel 97                   x

Microsoft Word 97                                                  x

Microsoft PowerPoint 97                              x

When you use Setup for these programs and click Yes to remove the Office 4.x and 95 components, all of the components will be removed.

For example, when you run Setup for Microsoft Office 97 Professional, if you select Custom installation, clear the option for PowerPoint components, and then click Yes to remove the Office 4.x and 95 components, all of the earlier Office components will be removed including the earlier version of PowerPoint. In other words, the Upgrade Wizard does not determine which components to remove based on the components you select during a Custom installation of Microsoft Office 97.

Running Microsoft Office 97 with Microsoft Office 4.x or 95

We do not recommend that you run multiple versions of Microsoft Office under the same installation of Microsoft Windows 95 or Microsoft Windows NT. However, if you want to keep some, but not all, of the earlier Microsoft Office components, use either of the following methods:

Method 1: Run Setup

  1. Run Setup for the earlier version of Microsoft Office.


  2. Click the Add/Remove button in Setup.


  3. Click to clear the check box for the component that you want to remove and click Continue.


  4. Click OK to remove the components that you've selected.


  5. When Setup for the earlier version of Office is done, run Setup for Microsoft Office 97. If the Upgrade Wizard prompts you to remove the Office 4.x and 95 components, click No.


Method 2: Use the Upgrade Wizard

  1. Run the Microsoft Office Upgrade Wizard (Offcln97.exe). The Upgrade Wizard is located in the ValuPack\OffClean folder of the Microsoft Office 97 CD-ROM.


  2. Select the "Remove old Office components of your choice" option.


  3. In the Upgrade Wizard, select those Office 4.x or 95 components that you want to remove.


  4. After the Upgrade Wizard removes the selected Microsoft Office 4.x and 95 components, run Setup for Microsoft Office 97. During setup, if the Upgrade Wizard prompts you to remove the Office 4.x and 95 components, click No.


When you install Microsoft Office 97, menu items on the Start menu that belong to Microsoft Office 95 programs are overwritten with menu items that belong to Microsoft Office 97 programs. You must recreate the Start menu items for the earlier programs.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q156817 OFF97: Setup Overwrites Office 95 Start Menu Items

Additional query words: 8.00 97 OFF97 


Keywords          : offwinsetup 
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Platform          : WINDOWS 
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Last Reviewed: May 25, 1999