Office 2007 Bible

Appendix B. Optimizing Your Office Installation

For many users, Office 2007 may already be installed on a company computer or preinstalled on a new system before purchase. Even if one of those situations applies to you, you may still need to adjust your Office installation at some point.

Many of the installation and repair tasks start with inserting the Microsoft Office 2007 CD-ROM into your CD or DVD drive. In most cases, the setup program launches automatically. If it doesn’t, open a folder window for the drive on the desktop and double-click the setup.exe file. Follow the onscreen prompts, entering your 25-character Product Key when prompted. Most users choose a typical install and install to the default location recommended by setup.

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If you are upgrading from Office 2003 to Office 2007, by default the new installation uses the same settings as your old install. However, if you think you might need to return to Office 2003 at any time or might want to apply your Office 2003 settings to another system, you can use the Save My Settings Wizard to preserve a copy of your Office 2003 settings for later use. To start this wizard, choose Start All Programs Microsoft Office Microsoft ...