The Microsoft Office 97 to Microsoft Office XP Migration Issues whitepaper provides an overview of the differences between Microsoft® Office 97 and Office XP. In essence, it describes what users might see different in the menu bar user interface during normal day-to-day activities, and it describes conditions they might experience as a possible bug, depending on their advanced usage of the various Office applications.

This paper also provides a roll-up of the most likely issues an administrator might encounter during and after a migration of Office 97 to Office XP. Included is information about several design changes that affect programmatic access to Office application objects, which may also affect custom applications.

Toolbox   The Microsoft Office 97 to Microsoft Office XP Migration Issues whitepaper is a Word document packaged in a self-extracting executable (XPDelta.exe) download. You can find this downloadable file on the Office XP Resource Kit Downloads page.

Contents of the Office 97 to Microsoft Office XP Migration Issues whitepaper

The table of contents for the whitepaper contains the following entries:

Basic migration issues

• Obvious findings
• VBA and Office application object model changes
• Effects of virus-checking programs
• Automation failure
• Legitimate bugs
• Bugs repaired in SP1 and SP2
• Feature compatibility between versions
  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook®
  • Microsoft PowerPoint®
  • Microsoft Word

Knowledge Base articles

• Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Access
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Word

General articles

• Technical overview
• Office development
• Deployment planning
  • Related deployment/migration issues
  • Security
  • Office XP security
• MultiLanguage enablement
• Windows XP and Office XP feature overview
• The product support lifecycle
• Customizing/migrating user-defined settings
• Microsoft Access conversion
• Miscellaneous

Conclusion