Loading Access on a machine that already has MSOffice

K

Kevin

Hi,

My company already has Office 2000 loaded but without
Access. Does anyone know if it is possible to load MS
Access (my personal copy of Office 2000) on to my machine
at that already has Office (without Access)?

Thanks
 
B

Brendan Reynolds

There could be licensing issues if you have already installed your copy on
another PC, but technically the only potential problem I can think of
off-hand is that the two copies could be at different service release
levels. The Office setup program may refuse to install components from the
original release if the target PC has had service releases applied.

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G

Guest

I would be willing to unload it off my machine at home.
However, I receive an error message when I go to Control
Panel -> Add/remove Program ->Select add programs. It
reads the setup.exe on the CD and then gives me an error:

Another version of this product is already installed.
Installation of this version cannot continue. To configure
or remove the existing version of this product, use
Add/Remove programs on the Control Panel.

Does this make sense??
 
W

Wayne Morgan

Kevin,

If you were trying to just add Access (stand alone product), you could.
However, I believe you are trying to go from Office 2000 Standard or Office
2000 SBE to Office 2000 Pro. It may be easiest to get an Upgrade copy of
Access and add it to your installation, this would let you keep your home
copy installed. I believe they sell for about $100.

To do what you're trying to do, the disk probably won't "auto play" and the
entry in Add/Remove programs is looking for the setup files for the version
of Office already installed. You'll need to browse to the disk in My
Computer and double click setup.exe. At that point, you should be able to
add Access to the current install.
 
V

Van T. Dinh

Yep. Access is part of Office so whwn you put the Office CD in which
activate the SetUp.exe which won't work sice Office (as a whole) has been
installed.

Try Control Panel / Add_Remove Programs / Select MS Office / Change ... and
follow the prompt.

Failing that, you can uninstall the MS Office (without Access) and
re-install MS Office version woth Access.

Be sure you have the license to cover the installation.

HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)
 
A

Alumne

Van T. Dinh said:
Yep. Access is part of Office so whwn you put the Office CD in which
activate the SetUp.exe which won't work sice Office (as a whole) has been
installed.

Try Control Panel / Add_Remove Programs / Select MS Office / Change ... and
follow the prompt.

Failing that, you can uninstall the MS Office (without Access) and
re-install MS Office version woth Access.

Be sure you have the license to cover the installation.

HTH
Van T. Dinh
MVP (Access)
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