Before You Upgrade to Office 2000

You can upgrade to Microsoft Office 2000 from the following applications:

• Office 98 (Macintosh®)
• Office 95 and Office 97 (Microsoft Windows®)
• Office 4.x (Windows and Macintosh)
• WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, Harvard Graphics, and dBASE (Windows)

Before you start the conversion process, you must:

1. Determine which files you want to move to Office 2000, and then use a virus scanning program to scan the files for viruses.
2. Unbind all binder documents into component sections — if you have any.
3. Create backup copies of the files you want to convert.
4. Install the Office 2000 applications you want to deploy; follow the instructions in Basic Installation Methods.

See also

Some Windows users might have to share documents and presentations with Macintosh users. For information about changes in graphics formats and fonts between operating systems, see Moving Files Between the Windows and Macintosh Operating Systems.

You can incorporate your plan for solving year 2000 issues into your plan for upgrading to Office 2000. For information about what you can do to plan and manage your organization’s transition into the year 2000, see Meeting the Year 2000 Challenge.

The international features of Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack allow you to deploy it throughout your international organization. For information about multilingual support issues to consider if your organization is upgrading to Office 2000 with MultiLanguage Pack from localized versions of Office, see Planning an International Move to Office 2000.