Office 2007 & 2003 on the same computer?

K

kxxxk

Can I install Office 2007 Standard on a computer where Office Professional
2003 is already installed, so that I can do my work with the older Office
while learning the considerably-changed newer one? If this would cause a
conflict between the two Outlook programs, can I install/keep only the
new/old Outlook?
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Only one version of MS Office Outlook can be used. You can use multiple versions of the other Office apps.

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Can I install Office 2007 Standard on a computer where Office Professional
2003 is already installed, so that I can do my work with the older Office
while learning the considerably-changed newer one? If this would cause a
conflict between the two Outlook programs, can I install/keep only the
new/old Outlook?
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kxxxk>>
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Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
 
K

kxxxk

Thank you for your answer. When I go to implement it, that is, when I
proceed to install Office 2007 Standard, is it evident how I can get the
installation to replace only Outlook 2003, installing the other Office 2007
components so as to keep the corresponding Office 2003 components, or is
there a trick that must be known in advance?
 
L

looper

kxxxk,
You will be prompted for a clean install or a custom install. Choose the
custom install and it will guide you through. It is not totally evident that
Qutlook will be replaced but it is not an option. The prior version of
Outlook will be unloaded and the new stuffed in its place. I was in the same
situation and it worked perfectly for. All applications in both versions of
Office function in all aspects but your Outlook 07 will be standalone.

Looper
 
A

Aldrin

Hi,
I have installed Office 2003 Pro and Office 2007 Pro on the same machine
under the same OS (XP Pro). They seem to work fine except for one glitch.
This has to do with Word. When you start Word 2003, and then later start Word
2007, Office wants to reconfigure itself. Then later if you start Word 2003,
it wants to configure itself. They both work fine after the configure, but
they configure EVERYTIME you start one and then the other. This I believe has
to do with the fact that they use the same registry entries. BTW Word is the
only app that does this. Excel. Powerpoint do not.
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Aldrin,

Unfortunately that's an 'expected' behavior. You may, if you have a sufficiently hefty system, investigate running the older
version under a free MS virtual machine. http://microsoft.com/virtualpc if dual booting isn't feasible.

The installing/configuring behavior isn't new to Word 2007. MS doesn't directly support running multiple versions of Office on one
computer, but does provide a procedure for setting it up if you need to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091/en-us .

Prior versions of Word were very language and version centric. When you start them the MS Installer is called to reset registry,
DLL and other pointers to be of the correct version and language for a particular Word installation and in trying to match up to
Outlook where Word used to be used as the email editor. In addition, Word 2003 had two flavors of Word (Word 2003
standalone/Professional and Word 2003 all others). There's apparently more to switch back when going between Word 2007 and prior
versions of Word so the 'reset' to use the right files and registry links and file associations can take longer when 2007 is one of
the two involved Word versions.

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Hi,
I have installed Office 2003 Pro and Office 2007 Pro on the same machine
under the same OS (XP Pro). They seem to work fine except for one glitch.
This has to do with Word. When you start Word 2003, and then later start Word
2007, Office wants to reconfigure itself. Then later if you start Word 2003,
it wants to configure itself. They both work fine after the configure, but
they configure EVERYTIME you start one and then the other. This I believe has
to do with the fact that they use the same registry entries. BTW Word is the only app that does this. Excel. Powerpoint do not. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
 
M

Max-A-Million

Can you install Office 2007 on the same computer with Office 2002, as well?
Or does this only work with 2003? We don't use Outlook, but we have Lotus
Notes (if that makes a difference).
 
T

Thomas

I have just installed office 2007, before my trial of 2003 ran out....my
question is, can I set up to use my new outlook if I do not have an ISP, I
am one of those guys that just uses wifi connections where ever I can get
it....I have never had an outlook email set up before....and do I have to
uninstall ALL of the older version to use my 2007?
 
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