Installing word 2000 on computer that already has word 2002 alread

[Home-based transcriptionist]

I am a home-based transcriptionist that has a client that is interested in me
performing some transcription for them. The problem I have is that I have
Microsoft Windows XP professional with word 2002 on my business computer and
this company's system requires the transcription to be done on word 2000.
They told me that I cannot use word 2002 and down save it to word 2000
because it messes up their system. Is it possible to load a version of word
2000 on my business computer without it messing up my word 2002? Also is
there a way I can get just word 2000 without having to purchase the entire
office 2000 software?
Thank you for you help!

 

[Howard Kaikow]

The ONLY foolproof way to have more than one version of Office on a computer
is to have each installed in a separate bootable system.

One way to do this is to create a multiple boot system.
Another is to use a product such as Microsoft's Virtual PC or EMC' VMWare to
create virtual systems on the PC.

I say again, There is NO way to guarantee that two versions of Office (or of
Word) will work properly unless each is in a separate bootable system.