XL2000: Products That Qualify for the Microsoft Excel Upgrade

• Microsoft Excel 2000

SUMMARY

Microsoft Excel is available in two versions: a retail version that you can install on any compatible computer, and an upgrade version that requires that a qualifying product be installed on your computer or that Disk 1 of the qualifying product be available when you run the Setup program.

This article lists the products that qualify you to use the upgrade version of Microsoft Excel 2000. The retail version does not require a qualifying product.

MORE INFORMATION

Qualifying product names are listed on the left and their version numbers are listed on the right in the following table.

   Product                                Version
   ----------------------------------------------------------------------

   Microsoft Excel                        Version 5.0 or later for Windows 
                                          and Windows NT Workstation.

   Microsoft Office Professional,         Version 4.0 or later for Windows
   Small Business, Standard,              and Windows NT Workstation.
   Developer, and VAR edition.

   Lotus 1-2-3*                           Versions 2.01 to 3.4 for MS-DOS 
                                          based computers and versions 1.0 
                                          to 4.01 for Windows.


*Office productivity suites from Lotus, which contain Lotus 1-2-3 versions 2.01 to 3.4 for MS-DOS based computers or Lotus 1-2-3 versions 1.0 to 4.01 for Windows, also qualify as an upgrade to Microsoft Excel.   
 

REFERENCES

For additional information about upgrading to Microsoft Office, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q210437 OFF2000: Products that Qualify for the Microsoft Office Upgrade

Additional query words: XL2000

Keywords : kbsetup kbdta xlwinsetup
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbinfo