MS Office 2003 ==> Office 2007 migration questions

[xrMike]

I currently have Office 2003 installed on my work laptop (with 2003 versions of Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.)

I want to upgrade to Office 2007. I have the 2007 installation disk, license key, etc.

Do I need to uninstall Office 2003 before installing Office 2007, or can I install it right over the top of Office 2003?

Anything I should do first, like backup certain files? (mostly concerned with Outook email files here... I believe that I currently have Outlook email configured so that my email data files are stored on the company servers, and not locally, on the laptop.)

Thanks.

[lazyworm]

I personally would uninstall the old version first. No way to tell if the new installer would do the correct thing 100% of the time.

For the outlook files, do a search for .pst files.

Btw, you should have your whole machine backed up anyways.

[ldivinag]

i just did 3 2003 to 2007 upgrades yesterday.

no problems so far.

i did the upgrade cause i got lazy and the machines werent important if office kills it.

otherwise, when you run the 2007 installer, there's an option to uninstall previous versions.

[xrMike]

I personally would uninstall the old version first. No way to tell if the new installer would do the correct thing 100% of the time.

For the outlook files, do a search for .pst files.

That's what I figured, but I was hoping I could take the lazy route because I didn't want to have to reconfigure my email account... Never done that before, but I guess it can't be that hard. I'll uninstall everything then.

Btw, you should have your whole machine backed up anyways.

Ahem, uh, guilty as charged. You sound like my IT dept! Thanks man.

[rynando]

You should be fine. Just backup your files first (including your email).

R

[SmokinMr2]

I have installed 07 over 03 about 25+ times. No issues.

[bigmike82]

Yeah...the upgrade works just fine by itself.