Microsoft Office 2007 Upgrade - What Office Versions Does It Upgrade From?
This is the question that I had to answer today. I could not easily find documentation that lists exactly what previous versions of Microsoft Office can be upgraded to Office 2007. I finally found the answer by popping in the CD, in this case Microsoft Office Small Business 2007, going through the initial installation steps, clicking the ? help button when at the custom / default installation screen, then following the resulting Microsoft website links to find the answer.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/924618
When you upgrade to the 2007 Office suite, the Office Setup program targets the following versions of Office programs for removal:
| • | All versions of Microsoft Office 2000 |
| • | All versions of Microsoft Office XP |
| • | All versions of Microsoft Office 2003 |
| • | Microsoft Works Suite 2000 |
| • | Microsoft Works Suite 2001 |
| • | Microsoft Works Suite 2002 |
| • | Microsoft Works Suite 2003 |
| • | Microsoft Works Suite 2004 |
| • | Microsoft Works Suite 2005 |
| • | Microsoft Works Suite 2006 |
In addition I eventually found a more definitive upgrade guide here:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX101754511033.aspx
So to wrap this thing up - 2007 will upgrade a “comparable” version of the software from 2000 and up, so this excludes older Office 97. Ah, but why did I surround “comparable” in quotation marks? Because the older version being upgraded should have similar features to the 2007 upgrade. For example, I upgraded Office XP Professional with an Office 2007 Small Business Edition upgrade. The 2007 SBE does not include an upgrade for Access, which is a part of Office XP Pro (but does in install a 60 day trial of Access 2007). Meh!
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