Apologies for another techie question but u guys r a bright bunch.


Is it possible to reintstall Office XP without losing your data? I have the discs, but there is only an option called setup.exe a few other folders, and a readme file, with no useful info.

I just want to reinstall it because its playing up, but with a wiping frenzy! i want to just overwrite office xp without losing anything. will this work if i press set up, even though I already have it installed??

Much appreciated in advance

PH

You can choose to "repair" Office XP if you wish. But that might not get you what you want.

When you reinstall Office XP, you will lose certain settings like Excel Add-ins that you have previously downloaded. You will also lose any Templates that you have added to Word, Excel, Publisher, Powerpoint, etc.

All of your Data should be relatively untouched. In fact, most of it would be found in your My Documents folder, unless you chose to put it somewhere else. You might want to do a search on your PC for files like *.doc *.xls *.pub and more.

You WILL want to make a backup of your Outlook *.pst file if you are using Outlook for email. If you keep it in your My Documents folder, you should be okay. However, this file defaults to a weird location under \Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook or something like that.

Another thing to try first would be to re-install the latest Office XP Service Pack.

Go HERE to autoupdate over the internet:

http://office.microsoft.c...fault.aspx

HERE to download it to your PC first and run manually:

http://www.microsoft.com/...laylang=en

Dauphin said:

many thanks