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Office 2010 Upgrade Options

Posted by on Aug 27, 2010 | 2 Comments

There should be an image here!If you’re thinking about upgrading to Office 2010, you have a few different upgrade options from which to choose. The option you choose will impact how your user and computer settings, including documents, get migrated to the new version of Office.

There are basically three upgrade options. The first option is to perform an in-place upgrade where your current Office 2007 installation is upgraded to Office 2010. Your user and computer settings are migrated during the installation.

Your second option is to perform an uninstall upgrade where your earlier version of Office is uninstalled prior to upgrading to Office 2010. With this option, user and computer settings are migrated during the first use of each Office 2010 application.

Finally, your third option is to perform a new operating system upgrade where a new version of the operating system, such as Windows 7, is installed followed by an upgrade to Office 2010. With a new operating system upgrade, user and computer settings are migrated using the User State Migration Tool (USMT).

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