[Bubba]

I have office 2003 on this computer and it quit updating about a year ago. (see this thread: http://www.computer-juice.com/forums...upgrade-19545/ )

I bought a copy of 2007 for my new computer and it came with 3 licenses. Obviously I onlyused one on my new computer, so I have 2 left. My question is this. Can I install 2007 on my old computer without uninstalling the 2003 and then suck the documents I wrote in 2003 into my 2007, before deleting the 2003? I have hundreds of articles and probably 1000's of research documents for those articles and for future articles, interviews, ect, that I don't want to lose. The 2007 is clean install version, not upgrade version.

Or should I save all my articles and research on disk, delete 2003, install 2007, and then import the docs back into the 2007? I would really rather get the @#$%##$ 2003 to upgrade, but I can't and no one else seemed to know how either lol.

[Carbon]

I don't understand why it would make a difference. All the files are on disk, I don't know about Office 2007 but all your .doc or whatever files are completely independent from the installation in 2003. It doesn't matter what you do with the installation, uninstallation of a previous Office version will only delete Office program files, documents are not stored with the program.

This can sometimes be an issue with stuff like Outlook Express but they don't work in the same way.

[Bubba]

Ok thanks Carbon. I didn't know that. I'm trying to learn but still fuzzy on stuff like that.

[thingie2]

Yea, exactly as Carbon said, the documents aren't stored in the program, they are separate, so you'll be fine, unless it's Outlook stuff, that's a different story altogether.