Office 2007 query

rwsadd said:

You mention "windows updates" my sister is still on Win 7, I was led to believe support for 7 has ended (therefore no updates).

Office updates. You get them through Windows update.

Denis

I'll reply more fully but first please tell me
1 Do you have your Office 2007 Product key?
If not, do you have a system image from before you removed Office 2007 that you could restore to because
2 There are ways to retrieve the product key while it is still installed. [I have never seen anybody report that they can still do so after uninstallation but that might be worth trying - just to save a bit of bother]
3 What exactly is your current state. You said both had been removed but then seemed to imply you still had 2019. I did not follow something properly, I think.
Okay, I have read it again and can see that you restored to before the disaster.

Denis
post edited after I had read yours again.

Richard,

1 I think you should just leave everything as it is if you are not confident about your Office 2019 installation file.

2 Just pass on your Office Pro 2007 as you had intended and leave yours unused.

3 The Office 2019 installation file is not necessarily a problem because it might be an online installer that does little more than call up the full installation file from the internet. But there's no need to put this to the test if you don't want to.
I have lost of notes about Uninstalling Office but I don't seem to have any notes about the installation procedure. I'll add a link here if I find it.

4 Side-issues

4.1 Office 2007 and user accounts
- Office 2007 is not installed just for individual user accounts. It is installed to the computer. I only mention this to avoid any misunderstandings.
- Office 2019 might be installed just for a single user account for all I know but I would be surprised. I appreciate that you might have had to use an MSAccount during installation but I thought it would still be installed to the computer for use by all users.
- My knowledge of Office 2019 would not fill a matchbox.
4.2 Retrieving info form your old user account
- You can copy all your own files from that old user account any time you like. I think it would be worth doing as soon as the current job is done because then you can make sure that everythign is covered by whatever file backup scheme you use.
- Copying is safer than moving. If anything goes wrong the original files will still be there so you can have another go.
- If you are not short of disk space then there would be little benfit in deletign anythign form the old user account providing it was protected with a decent password [that you have written down somewhere secure yet readily accessible].
- I always keep one or two unused user accounts [Admin ones] so I can be confident of getting back into the computer if my real user account ever got seriously corrupted [which might, from the sound of it, be what happened to your old one but it could not have been particularly serious if you were able to log into it].

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As I see it, the only significant issue is checking that you have your Office 2007 product key so you can give it to your sister.

Denis

Richard,

These instructions do make me think you could install Office 2019 again without any problems.
Download and install or reinstall Microsoft 365 or Office 2019 - MSSupport

And this rather confirms it - the existence of an offline installer implies that the normal one must be an online installer
Use the Office offline installer - MSSupport

These articles make me wonder why you had any problem removing Office 2007
Install and use different versions of Office on the same PC - MSSupport
Office 2007 and Office 2013, 2016, or 2019 side by side - MSSupport

Denis

Richard,

It occurs to me that you could try removing Office 2007 again [secure in the knowledge that you can restore once more if you want to] and then use the MS instructions to download and re-install Office 2019.
Download and install or reinstall Microsoft 365 or Office 2019 - MSSupport

Denis

Richard,

Yes, you've done it then.

If I had been doing something like this, I would now make a new system image before doing anything else at all.
- I'd keep the earlier system image [that you used before] for a while at least.
- You have not mentioned which utility you use for your system images. I use a free version of AcronisTI but most people in this forum use Macrium Reflect [free version].

Once I had the system image safely tucked away, I'd run the Office 2019 repair procedure just in case it had been damaged during the repeated uninstallation procedures.
- Your repair procedure is entirely different to mine so I cannot comment on it.
- Repair an Office application - MSSupport
- If there were any remnants of Office 2007 that might get in the way at some unpredictable future time then the repair procedure should sort them out.

After that I'd make yet another system image. One day I must get round to weeding out some of my old ones.

Denis