SUMMARY
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Although Microsoft does not recommend it, it is possible to
install and use more than one version of Office on a single computer.
For
example, you can install and use both Microsoft Office XP and Microsoft
Office
97 on the same computer.
This article describes the problems you may
encounter when you do this and offers advice on preventing different
versions
of Office from conflicting with each other.
Note Microsoft has not tested running Microsoft Office XP with
multiple versions of Office on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server
Edition
or Microsoft Windows 2000 with Terminal Services. Therefore, the
configuration
is not supported by Microsoft.
MORE INFORMATION
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Order of Installation
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If you want to install and use more than one version of Office on
the same computer, you should install the earliest version first. For
example,
if you want to use both Office 97 and Office XP on the same computer,
install
Office 97 first. This step is necessary because of the way registry
keys,
shared programs, file extensions, and other settings are managed for
each
version of Office, and for the programs that are included with each
version of
Office.
The following table shows the order in which the versions of
Office should be installed:
Office Installation
version order
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4.2 or 4.3 First
95 Second
97 Third
2000 Fourth
XP Fifth
The remainder of this article assumes that you installed the
versions of Office in this order.
Office Bin Folder Location Changes to \Office10 Folder
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When you install Office XP, the default folder for Setup is still
\Program Files\Microsoft Office. However, the Office Bin folder (the
folder in
which the Office .exe files are installed) has changed to \Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office10. This was done to provide a better user
experience for users requiring multiple versions of Office installed on
the
same computer. There is no way to change the name of the Office Bin
folder.
Multiple Versions of Outlook
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Microsoft Outlook 2002 cannot coexist with any earlier version of
Outlook. If you choose to install Outlook 2002, the Setup program will
not
allow you to keep any earlier version. Outlook 2000 or Outlook 98 will
be
removed even if you select the Keep these programs check box in the
Removing Previous Versions dialog box.
For additional information, click the following
article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
KBLink:290366.KB.[LN]: OFFXP: Setup May Remove Earlier Versions of
Office
Using the Office Shortcut Bar
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When earlier versions of Office are installed on the same
computer, the Office XP Shortcut Bar does not use buttons from the
earlier
versions of Office.
When earlier versions of Office are installed
with Office XP, the shortcut bars can be started separately although not
concurrently, and each may have their own set of custom toolbars and
buttons.
These toolbars and buttons cannot be shared between the two Office
Shortcut
Bars.
Shortcuts on the Start Menu
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Office 95, Office 97, Office 2000 and Office XP use the same
shortcut names on the Start menu to start programs. Because of this
behavior, when you
install Office XP, the Setup program overwrites the shortcuts for the
earlier
versions of Office. The following shortcuts are affected:
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft FrontPage
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Office Shortcut Bar
If you rename the shortcuts for the earlier versions of Office
before you install Office XP, you can use the shortcuts for all sets of
programs on the Start menu. To avoid confusion, Microsoft suggests that
you add the
version number to each renamed shortcut. For example, rename the shorcut
pointing to Access 97 to "Microsoft Access 97" (without the quotation
marks) before you
install Office XP. You can also move the Office 95 or Office 97
shortcuts to a
subfolder on the Start menu.
For additional information, click the article number below to
view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
KBLink:292584.KB.EN-US: OFFXP: Setup Overwrites Start Menu Items from
Earlier Versions of Office
If you manually move the shortcuts for either
Office XP or Office 2000 and you reinstall the product or repair the
shortcuts,
the shortcuts will be recreated on the Programs menu off the Start menu.
Note You can customize Office XP setup or Office 2000 setup to install
the shortcuts to another location on the Start menu by using the Custom
Installation
Wizard.
For more
information about the <I>Microsoft Office XP Resource Kit</I>,
visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/ork/
Microsoft Office Binder
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When Office 95, or Office 97 are installed on the same computer
as Office 2000, the Add Section dialog box in Office Binder displays
document types for the most
recently installed version of Office up to Office 2000. As a result,
when you
insert a section into a binder file, an Office 2000 document type is
used. This
behavior may cause problems when you try to share a binder file with
other
users who have earlier versions of Office.
Note Office XP does not ship with Microsoft Office Binder. However, a
utility to extract all office documents from a Binder file
does.
For additional information, click the following article number to view the
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
KBLink:281931.KB.[LN]: OFFXP: Error Message When You Try to Open
Microsoft Binder File
Double-Clicking Files In Windows Explorer
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When you double-click an Office document in Windows Explorer, or
from the recent documents folder of Windows, the following rules apply:
- If a version of the program in which the document was created is
running, the document is opened in that version.
- With Office 95, 97, 2000, or XP, if no version of the program in
which the document was created is running, the document is opened in
the version of the program that you most recently installed. With
Office 4.<x>, every time you start an Office 4.<x> program, it
registers itself as the latest version installed and attempts to load
the document with that version of the program. With Microsoft Access
and Microsoft Word version 7.0, 97, or 2000, if no version of the
program in which the document was created is running, the document is
opened in the version of the program that was most recently open.
To reassociate documents with the programs included with a
particular version of Office, run the Office Setup program and click
Reinstall (for versions 95 or 97) or Repair Office (for Office 2000 or
Office XP). Doing this registers the file
associations for that version of Office.
Note This does not correct the behavior if you are using Microsoft
Access or Microsoft Word.
For additional
information about how to make file associations, click the following
article
number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
KBLink:141275.KB.[LN]: How to Open a File with Other Than Associated
Program
Inserting Office OLE Objects Into Other Programs
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If you install multiple versions of Office on the same computer
and you insert an Office object, such as an Excel worksheet object, into
another program, such as a Word document, the newest version of the
program is
used. This may cause problems if you share the container file with
users who
are not using Office XP, for example, a Word document that contains an
Excel
worksheet object.
Shared Programs
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If you installed the versions of Office in the order described in
the "Order of Installation" section, you will not experience any
problems when
you use shared programs such as Equation Editor and Clip Gallery. Note
that the
Object dialog box may display more than one entry for each shared
program; this behavior occurs because multiple versions of the shared
program
may be installed on the computer.
"Preparing to Install..." Message Starting Word
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If you have multiple versions of Word installed on your computer,
when you start Word 2002, the Windows Installer may run and display a
message
that it is preparing to install.
Note
For additional information about how to run multiple
versions of Microsoft Word, click the following article number to view
the
article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
KBLink:319956.KB.[LN]: The Answer Wizard and the Help Index tabs appear
blank when you use Help in an Office program
