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    <title>Jim Zimmerman - ASP.NET, MVC, Ajax and ORM - Office 2007</title>
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        <p>
Ironically, right before I was ready to install the RTM of Office 2007 Professional,
I saw a post titled, <a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Office2007WontUpgradeFromAPrereleaseVersionOfThe2007OfficeSystemOffice2007SetupSpelunking.aspx">Office
2007 won't upgrade from a prerelease version of the 2007 Office System - Office 2007
Setup Spelunking</a> from Scott Hanselman about some issues he had had with upgrading
Office 2003 to 2007.  
</p>
        <p>
He had some great information about how to uninstall some things from beta versions
of office 2007 that do not necessarily appear in the standard Add / Remove programs
feature in XP.  He used a tool called <a href="http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html">MyUnInst</a> which
I ended up having to download also because I ran into a similar problem.  But
my problem even went further which was very frustrating.  Even after removing
anything that had to do with Office 2007 beta, which I never installed on my system
anyway's, but found some of the same files Scott did, I still could not install.  
</p>
        <p>
So I thought well, I have this program called Expression Designer Beta 1, maybe that
needs to be removed also.  So when I tried to remove it, it said I could not
uninstall it because of some language thing.  What?  So I downloaded and
reinstalled the Expression Designer Beta 1 and then uninstalled it fine.  Then
Office 2007 installed.
</p>
        <p>
Well all that frustration ended up being worth it.  I love the new outlook 2007. 
That alone is worth the upgrade for me.  I really do like having feeds integrated
in and the integration of ie7 and office for adding feeds could not be more seamless. 
</p>
        <p>
Now I doubt many consumers will have the problems I had, but for other early adopters
beware of the betas you have installed and make sure to remove them all to get a nice
install of Office 2007.  It is definitely worth it.
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      <title>Office 2007 Upgrade Issues and Expression Web Designer</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;
Ironically, right before I was ready to install the RTM of Office 2007 Professional,
I saw a post titled, &lt;a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/Office2007WontUpgradeFromAPrereleaseVersionOfThe2007OfficeSystemOffice2007SetupSpelunking.aspx"&gt;Office
2007 won't upgrade from a prerelease version of the 2007 Office System - Office 2007
Setup Spelunking&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;from Scott Hanselman about some issues he had had with upgrading
Office 2003 to 2007.&amp;nbsp; 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
He had some great information about how to uninstall some things from beta versions
of office 2007 that do not necessarily appear in the standard Add / Remove programs
feature&amp;nbsp;in XP.&amp;nbsp; He used a tool called &lt;a href="http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html"&gt;MyUnInst&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;which
I ended up having to download also because I ran into a similar problem.&amp;nbsp; But
my problem even went further which was very frustrating.&amp;nbsp; Even after removing
anything that had to do with Office 2007 beta, which I never installed on my system
anyway's, but found some of the same files Scott did, I still could not install.&amp;nbsp; 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
So I thought well, I have this program called Expression Designer Beta 1, maybe that
needs to be removed also.&amp;nbsp; So when I tried to remove it, it said I could not
uninstall it because of some language thing.&amp;nbsp; What?&amp;nbsp; So I downloaded and
reinstalled the Expression Designer Beta 1 and then uninstalled it fine.&amp;nbsp; Then
Office 2007 installed.
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Well all that frustration ended up being worth it.&amp;nbsp; I love the new outlook 2007.&amp;nbsp;
That alone is worth the upgrade for me.&amp;nbsp; I really do like having feeds integrated
in and the integration of ie7 and office for adding feeds could not be more seamless. 
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;
Now I doubt many consumers will have the problems I had, but for other early adopters
beware of the betas you have installed and make sure to remove them all to get a nice
install of Office 2007.&amp;nbsp; It is definitely worth it.
&lt;/p&gt;
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