Multiple installations of WORD

[Don Belth]

Is it possible to have both WORD 2002XP and WORD 2000,
each installed in different directories but on the same
drive, without conflicting with each other. I would like
to be able to take advantage of the improvements in 2002
but like the familiarity of features like Mail Merge in
2000. I've just re-formatted and reconfigured my computer
to run Windows 2000 Pro. Immediately prior to that I'd
installed both versions, each of which seemed to function
properly but MS Outlook, which used Word as its editor,
got thorought confused and would not allow WORD any longer.
Thanks in advance.

Don

 

[Mike Williams [MVP]]

Is it possible to have both WORD 2002XP and WORD 2000,
each installed in different directories but on the same
drive, without conflicting with each other. I would like
to be able to take advantage of the improvements in 2002
but like the familiarity of features like Mail Merge in
2000. I've just re-formatted and reconfigured my computer
to run Windows 2000 Pro. Immediately prior to that I'd
installed both versions, each of which seemed to function
properly but MS Outlook, which used Word as its editor,
got thorought confused and would not allow WORD any longer.
Thanks in advance.

Multiple copies of Word installed on one disk partition will share some
registry entries and all of the components under \Program Files\Common
Files\ plus any file updates to Windows.

If you want to try isolate the versions they should be installed on
different partitions under a multi-boot arrangement. Anything less will give
mixed results - some features will be fine and work independently, others
will not.