I have Office 2003 installed, and need to install MSAccess 2000

[urbanpossum]

i own Office Premium with Access 2000. Currently, I run Office 2003, no
Access. Now I want to use Access, but when I try to custom install only
Access from the 2000 disk, after a long while, the "Installing Microsoft
Office 2000" window installation process displays an uninformative error (the
text is along the lines of "Installation failed - encountered an error."

It seems that this should be do-able. Any solutions?

Diane

 

[Mark Vanderslice]

We have both A2k and A2k3 on some of our PCs. You may have to completely
uninstall Office 2k3, then reinstall Office/Access 2k, then reinstall Office
2k3. The 2k3 install should detect the earlier version and ask if you want
to upgrade or keep. Not sure if the 2k3 install defaults this way or if you
have to enter it, but we made sure 2k3 components install to

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11

and 2k install is in

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office

Nothing's ever guaranteed with MS installs, but it works for us. Worst case,
uninstall everything, reinstall Office 2k3, and call Microsoft.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

You should haven't to uninstall the existing version. Just make sure you
install each version into a separate folder.