Office 97 Uninstall Help on Windows 7

I started several years ago with Office 97 Professional , and had upgrades for Office Professional 2000 and 2003. I recently had some computer problems, and had to re-install a copy of Office 97 Professional, in hope of using the upgrades to get back to Office 2003 Professional. I got Office 97 Professional to install, but could not get the upgrades to 2000 and 2003 to install. Then I tried to uninstall Office 97, and it will not uninstall. I have attempted the uninstall several times. It keeps telling me to insert CD1 into the CD/DVD Drive, but when I do, it tries to re-install Office 97. I cannot get rid of it.

I bought Office 2007 and loaded it on the machine yesterday. I love it, but I still have Office 97 eating up storage space.

Can someone tell me how to removed Office 97 without going through the Control Panel's Add/Remove Software?

Thanks,

Lee

Try using the Office Removal wizard. See this support page, it contains the download link for the wizard too.

OFF97: How to Completely Remove Microsoft Office 97

Thank you Bill2 and Sygnus21.

If I use the Office (OFF97) Removal Tool, will it delete my Office 2007 or just Office 97?

Thanks again,

LeeM

I'm not sure that program is going to work without causing problems, mainly removing 2007 as well.

What programs are you wanting to remove? If you upgraded to 2007 all the older office files have been upgraded, and thus require no "removal" since they are the new updated files.

Perhaps I'm not understanding what it is you're wanting removed???

The solution to your problem is simple:

Uninstall 2007, Reinstall 2007 while the setup runs it will give you 2 options
1. Upgrade
2. Custom

Select Upgrade it may advise that all the previous versions will be removed or over written select yes and there you go. Previous office installation is gone.

pcs3657, I did this and everything is gone, except the Office 97 Task bar keeps coing up on the screen after startup.

LeeM