Installing a second copy of office

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Dan C

I want to install another copy of Office 2000 on same
drive as current install. (I have a specific reason).

The install disk for Office will not let me. The only
choices are repair, add or remove features and
remove office.

Actually to be accurate, I want to install a second copy
of excel in a separate directory, from the office suite disk.

Is this possible?

Dan
 
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Dan C asked:

| I want to install another copy of Office 2000 on same
| drive as current install. (I have a specific reason).
|
| The install disk for Office will not let me. The only
| choices are repair, add or remove features and
| remove office.
|
| Actually to be accurate, I want to install a second copy
| of excel in a separate directory, from the office suite disk.
|
| Is this possible?
|
| Dan
 
C

ChesterCoronel

I think you are only allowed to installed one copy of Microsoft Office as
defined in the terms of the End-User License Agreement.
 
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Dan C

Bob said:
What is it you actually want to accomplish, by installing a second copy?
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I use a dll link furnished by the data provider, to a data
feed for stock and index quotes. There is no way to
change servers, and the sheet I want to use draws tick
data for the issues in the S&P 100. The resources this
sucks up slows down and oft times kills other spread
sheets. I wanted to change the name of the addin, install
it in the second install of excel, have it on a different
server so the resource draw is spread out. So if I start
another copy of excel now, it uses the same link, same
servers and everything just clots.

Hope that is clear,

Dan
 
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Bob I

To my knowledge you won't get the effect you desire. At a minimum you
will need to buy a different version to keep the registry entries from
conflicting, and even then you might not pull it off. You may want to
see if the data provider will feed the OO spreadsheet.(Open Office) Or
another more likely to succeed possibility, is to get another copy and
run it under Virtual PC.
 
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Dan C

Bob said:
To my knowledge you won't get the effect you desire. At a minimum you
will need to buy a different version to keep the registry entries from
conflicting, and even then you might not pull it off. You may want to
see if the data provider will feed the OO spreadsheet.(Open Office) Or
another more likely to succeed possibility, is to get another copy and
run it under Virtual PC.
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Thanks, Bob, for your thoughts. I will look into OO. I
think the data provider add in probably work.

Dan
 
B

Bob I

You're welcome, here's to your eventual success!

Dan said:
Thanks, Bob, for your thoughts. I will look into OO. I think the data
provider add in probably work.

Dan
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Bob I

The "two installs" you refer to, are as follows. "One on a designated
Primary device, and a second on a portable device for the exclusive use
of the user of the Primary device." Your scenario doesn't seem to mesh
with that premise.
 
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