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Sasha
Hi,
I have installed Office 2003 and then installed Office 2007 without removing
Office 2003. I had to exclude Outlook 2007 from installing as we still use
Outlook 2003.
I had no problems installing either version of office, but I can't designate
Office 2003 to be default for opening Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
I did go to Explorer > Tools > Folder Option and corrected the associations
for .DOC .PPT and .XLS to point to executable files that reside in the
directory of Office 2003, it still didn't help. All documents still open in
Office 2007 if I double-click on the file.
However, at first some documents opened in 2003 but after launching Word or
Excel 2007, all documents now open in 2007
I uninstalled both versions of Office and reinstalled 2003 to C:\Program
Files\MS Office then reinstalled 2007 to C:\Program Files\MS Office 2007 and
still no luck.
I think the only solution I haven't tried yet is go back to file extension
associations and remove or delete any extensions that correspond to Office
2007, then instruct users to open Office 2007 app and then browse to open a
document.
90% of Company`s documents needed to be opened in Office 2003 and 10% need
to be opened in Office 2007, so we need Office 2003 and 2007
I understand it`s not recommended and I don't really recommend installing
both versions myself, however it's something that needs to be done....
I`d like to default Office 2003 to open all Office documents and then the
once that need to be opened in 2007 instruct users to open the app first and
then browse to the file... Unfortunately I can't get it working.
I was able to get it working on one of the PCs but the fix didn't work on
other PCs..
Please help.
Alex
I have installed Office 2003 and then installed Office 2007 without removing
Office 2003. I had to exclude Outlook 2007 from installing as we still use
Outlook 2003.
I had no problems installing either version of office, but I can't designate
Office 2003 to be default for opening Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
I did go to Explorer > Tools > Folder Option and corrected the associations
for .DOC .PPT and .XLS to point to executable files that reside in the
directory of Office 2003, it still didn't help. All documents still open in
Office 2007 if I double-click on the file.
However, at first some documents opened in 2003 but after launching Word or
Excel 2007, all documents now open in 2007
I uninstalled both versions of Office and reinstalled 2003 to C:\Program
Files\MS Office then reinstalled 2007 to C:\Program Files\MS Office 2007 and
still no luck.
I think the only solution I haven't tried yet is go back to file extension
associations and remove or delete any extensions that correspond to Office
2007, then instruct users to open Office 2007 app and then browse to open a
document.
90% of Company`s documents needed to be opened in Office 2003 and 10% need
to be opened in Office 2007, so we need Office 2003 and 2007
I understand it`s not recommended and I don't really recommend installing
both versions myself, however it's something that needs to be done....
I`d like to default Office 2003 to open all Office documents and then the
once that need to be opened in 2007 instruct users to open the app first and
then browse to the file... Unfortunately I can't get it working.
I was able to get it working on one of the PCs but the fix didn't work on
other PCs..
Please help.
Alex