Moving office from one machine to another.

I have a new machine and I want to move all of my office 2003 applications
over to it. my old machine is win2k my new machine is XP can I do a backup
and restore?
the old machine is going to be wiped after the migration and I don't want to
lose my settings and info. my new machine came preloaded with XP and the
hardware is really diffrent so I don't think I can install win2k, then
restore office on it then upgrade to xp.. I really want an quicker way to
move it.

thanks
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J W Mills

No you cannot do a backup and restore, unless you mean data only
You will have to install Office2003 on the new pc, if purchance it was an
upgrade you only need to have the qualifying product cd available when
Office complains.
Insure your new PC doesnt have a trial version of Office 2003 installed, if
it does uninstall it *first*

After the new PC is configured with your apps and data correctly - test!!!-
uninstall/format or whatever the old PC
Dont even think about trying to install win2k on the new pc, as a way around
it - its not

"J W Mills" wrote in message
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I have a new machine and I want to move all of my office 2003 applications
over to it. my old machine is win2k my new machine is XP can I do a backup
and restore?
the old machine is going to be wiped after the migration and I don't want
to
lose my settings and info. my new machine came preloaded with XP and the
hardware is really diffrent so I don't think I can install win2k, then
restore office on it then upgrade to xp.. I really want an quicker way to
move it.

thanks
--
J W Mills