Products That Qualify for the Microsoft 2000 Office Upgrade

 Microsoft Office is available in two versions, a non-upgrade version that you can install on any compatible computer, and an upgrade version that requires that a qualifying product be installed on your computer or that disk 1 from the qualifying product be available when you run the Setup program.

This page lists the products that qualify you to use the upgrade version of Office. The non-upgrade version does not require a qualifying product.

This applies to all packages of Office including Premium, Professional, Small Business, and Standard.

NOTE : The retail upgrade version of Office 2000 may not upgrade Works 6.0 or Works Suite 2001. Please contact Microsoft Technical Support and reference this article.

Qualifying product names are listed on the left, and their version numbers are listed on the right in the following table.

Word Processors:

Microsoft Word                       Version 6.0 or later for MS-

DOS-based computers,Windows,

and Windows NT Workstation.

WordPerfect                            Versions 4.0 to 5.1 for MS-DOS-

                                                 based computers and versions 5.1

                                                 to 6.1 for Windows.*

*Office productivity suites from Novell and Corel, which contain WordPerfect 4.0 to 5.1 for MS-DOS-based computers or WordPerfect 5.1 to 6.1 for Windows, also qualify as an upgrade to Office.

Spreadsheets:

Microsoft Excel                         Version 5.0 or later for Windows

                                                 and Windows NT Workstation.

Lotus 1-2-3                               Version 2.01 to 3.4 for MS-

                                                  DOS- based computers and

                                                  versions 1.0 to 4.01 for Windows.*

*Office productivity suites from Lotus, which contain Lotus 1-2-3 version 2.01 to 3.4 for MS-DOS-based computers and versions 1.0 to 4.01 for Windows, also qualify as an upgrade to Office.

Presentation Graphics:

Microsoft PowerPoint                 Version 4.0 or later for Windows and

                                                  Windows NT Workstation.

Databases:

Microsoft Access                       Version 2.0 or later for

                                                  Windows and Windows NT

                                                  Workstation.

Project Management:

Microsoft Project                       Version 4.0 or later for MS-

                                                   DOS-based computers,

                                                   Windows, and Windows NT

                                                   Workstation.

If Office Setup does not detect a product that qualifies you

to use the upgrade version, you receive the following

messages:

Setup failed to locate a valid qualifying product on your machine. Please select the drive where a qualifying product can be found.

-and-

Error 1608. Could not find any previously installed compliant products on the machine for installing this product.