KB132977 - OFF95: Remove Previous Version of Office Before Upgrading

Article ID: 132977

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

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This article was previously published under Q132977

SUMMARY

Both the "Getting Results with Microsoft Office for Windows 95" book and the online Getting Results Book contain the following information:

Upgrading from a previous version of Office--You don't need to remove
the existing version of Office. The setup program will install Office
for Windows 95 to a new location, and you can choose whether or not to
remove the existing version of Office. Setup preserves the documents,
templates, and other files you created so you can continue using them in
Office for Windows 95.

Although the Office Setup program does ask if you would like to remove your previous version of Office (if it detects a previous version on your computer), the recommended method for upgrading to Office version 7.0 is to remove the previous version of Office first, before you run the Office version 7.0 Setup program.

MORE INFORMATION

When you upgrade to Microsoft Office version 7.0, you should first run the Setup program for your previous version of Office in maintenance mode, and choose the Remove All button. This will remove all of the files that you do not need if you are installing Office version 7.0. If you use the Office version 7.0 Setup program to remove the existing version of Office instead of the Remove All feature from the previous version of Office, not all of the files from the previous version of Office are removed. This results in multiple Office items on the Windows Start menu, duplicate files on your hard disk, and files from your previous version of Office that are not used by Office version 7.0.

NOTE: If you are installing Microsoft Office Standard for Windows 95, version 7.0, over Microsoft Office Professional, version 4.3c or earlier, you should not remove Microsoft Access.

For additional information about the symptoms that occur when you do not remove an existing version of Office before installing Office version 7.0, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

132461 OFF95: Existing Office Icons Still Available After Upgrade

132704 OFF95: Files Not Removed Upgrading to Office Version 7.0

132411 OFF95: MSAPPS from Previous Version Not Removed on Upgrade

REFERENCES

"Getting Results with Microsoft Office for Windows 95," version 7.0, page 26.

For more information about installing and running Microsoft Office, click the Search tab in the online Getting Results Book, and then click the Index tab. Type the following text

Setup

double-click the selected text, and then double-click "Install and Start Microsoft Office" to go to the "Install And Start Microsoft Office" topic.

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