[WOPR]

I'll shortly be ordering a couple of upgrades for MS Office 2004. We've not used it here for a while and the last ones we bought were Office 2001 for OS9. I intend to format the Macs and do a complete re-install of the system etc, and my question is, do I need to bother installing Office 2001 into Classic, just so that I can install the upgrades into OS X, or does the Office 2004 upgrade installer just ask for your previous serial number?

I hope this isn't a dumb question and would appreciate any help. I have searched to no avail for the answer.

[Shades of Gray]

In June I bought Office 2004 as an upgrade to Office 2001. At the same I bought a new eMac and installed the upgrade directly into OS X without the Office 2001 installed. It worked great - no problems.

(Since then I have installed Office 2001 on Classic for cross-platform/version testing.)

[WOPR]

Cool. So do I use my original 2001 serial number or do you get a new one with the 2004 upgrade?

Originally posted by Shades of Gray:
In June I bought Office 2004 as an upgrade to Office 2001. At the same I bought a new eMac and installed the upgrade directly into OS X without the Office 2001 installed. It worked great - no problems.

(Since then I have installed Office 2001 on Classic for cross-platform/version testing.)

[velocitychannel]

Office 2004 will come with it's own serial number. If you do the drag and drop install, it will prompt you for the s/n when you launch one of the Office apps for the first time.

Originally posted by WOPR:
Cool. So do I use my original 2001 serial number or do you get a new one with the 2004 upgrade?