Upgrading to Excel 2007 question

[Reimer]

Our organization is upgrading to Office 2007. They will be doing it remotely over the weekend.
Am I right to assume that my Personal.xls (from Excel 2003) will be gone?
I have made a copy of it so I can convert it, but I am concerned about the other users that may not think about it.
If the existing Personal.xls is deleted during the upgrade, I would like to warn others to save a copy.

Thanks for your input.

Have a Great day

Chuck

[Goshute]

Our organization is upgrading to Office 2007. They will be doing it remotely over the weekend.
Am I right to assume that my Personal.xls (from Excel 2003) will be gone?
I have made a copy of it so I can convert it, but I am concerned about the other users that may not think about it.
If the existing Personal.xls is deleted during the upgrade, I would like to warn others to save a copy.

Depends on the method of upgrading. If the machines are reimaged you'll lose personal.xls, normal.dot, etc. I would make copies of personal.xls and normal.dot at least.

[Jan Karel Pieterse]

Or run the migrate your settings wizard thingy.

[Goshute]

IIRC, in Office 2003 and Office 2002, the "Save My Settings" Wizard is an optional part of the Office program suite, it may not be installed by default, BUT the wizard was removed from Office 2007, which is not an issue for the OP. Vista and Windows 7 users also have the "Easy Transfer Wizard" user tool. Vista Easy Transfer instructions: http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/window ... 61033.mspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Reimer]

Thanks!

Have a Great weekend