Removing old version of Office after installing new one

Up until about 6 months ago I was using Office XP. As my wife is a
teacher I took advantage of a special deal to buy Office 2007 and
installed that, but I didn't remove the old one as I wanted to make
sure everything worked ok.

I'd now like to get rid of the Office XP. Both are listed in the "Add
or Remove Programs" utility. Is it safe to use this to remove Office
XP or might it mess up Office 2007 in the process?

Thanks, David.

"DavidM" wrote in message
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Up until about 6 months ago I was using Office XP. As my wife is a
teacher I took advantage of a special deal to buy Office 2007 and
installed that, but I didn't remove the old one as I wanted to make
sure everything worked ok.

I'd now like to get rid of the Office XP. Both are listed in the "Add
or Remove Programs" utility. Is it safe to use this to remove Office
XP or might it mess up Office 2007 in the process?

Thanks, David.

You can safely uninstall OfficeXP via Control Panel Add/Remove Programs. If
after the uninstall you run into any unforseen issues, you can run the repair
for Office 2007 via Control Panel Add/Remove Programs or via the installation
media. On the other hand if anything left behind from the XP version is an
issue or causes problems, download/install/run the Windows Install Cleanup
Utility to rid of the XP version remnants.

Description of the Windows Installer CleanUp Utility
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301

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And if you installed Office 2007 in parrallel with Office Xp, then you will
need to install Outlook 2007 as it would'nt have been installed.
You would then be advised to confugure a new Mail Profile with new data file
& configure your accounts.
(outlook 2007 uses a different format data file to OutlookXP, its more
robust and doesnt have the size limitation)

"DavidM" wrote in message
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Up until about 6 months ago I was using Office XP. As my wife is a
teacher I took advantage of a special deal to buy Office 2007 and
installed that, but I didn't remove the old one as I wanted to make
sure everything worked ok.

I'd now like to get rid of the Office XP. Both are listed in the "Add
or Remove Programs" utility. Is it safe to use this to remove Office
XP or might it mess up Office 2007 in the process?

Thanks, David.

On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:41:57 +0000, DavidM
wrote:

Up until about 6 months ago I was using Office XP. As my wife is a
teacher I took advantage of a special deal to buy Office 2007 and
installed that, but I didn't remove the old one as I wanted to make
sure everything worked ok.

I'd now like to get rid of the Office XP. Both are listed in the "Add
or Remove Programs" utility. Is it safe to use this to remove Office
XP or might it mess up Office 2007 in the process?

Thanks, David.
Thank you both for your replies.
David