Advice on Office Configuration

[Alex]

Hi,
I have to configure some new laptops with office XP, 2003 and Office 2007
onto them. (These are for tutors who have to mark work from off three
versions)

Are there an y tips, tricks that would ensure thyat this wretched
Configuration dialog box does not appear each time the user switches
versions.

eg would it help to parition the drive and put a versions on each drive?

Thanks for and help

Alex

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Alex,

You can only have one active version of Outlook, so you won't have full compatibility from the three Office versions when you
install them on a single boot partition.

You can install each on a separate boot partition, or on a virtual PC http://microsoft.com/virtualpc but if you install them on a
single partition, then each time you switch Word versions, the installer will reset a variety of files and registry pointers to
match what that particular version is looking for.

While MS does have articles in their knowledge base on the order to use when installing multiple versions (oldest first) it is not a
MS recommended installation configuration to do so.

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Hi,
I have to configure some new laptops with office XP, 2003 and Office 2007
onto them. (These are for tutors who have to mark work from off three
versions)

Are there an y tips, tricks that would ensure thyat this wretched
Configuration dialog box does not appear each time the user switches
versions.

eg would it help to parition the drive and put a versions on each drive?

Thanks for and help

Alex>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*