Office 2007 Home and 2000 Access at once?

[romat]

It looks from other threads like this is possible, but I want
to check. I'm using Office Pro 2000 (Word, Excel, PP, Access) and am
considering Office Home/Student 2007. I don't need all the extras. Is
there a way to keep Access 2000 with the 2007 install? Thanks,

Roger

 

[DL]

Office2k isnt installed to a version specefic folder as later office
versions are (unless you did so during the install) and as such you might be
wise to uninstall Office then custom install to a version specific folder eg
Program Files\Microsoft Office\O2k\
Then update.
If you then choose upgrade install of Office2007 it should locate & remove
components that it is upgrading leaving other components eg Access and
Outlook intact

 

[romat]

Office2k isnt installed to a version specefic folder as later office
versions are (unless you did so during the install) and as such you
might be wise to uninstall Office then custom install to a version
specific folder eg Program Files\Microsoft Office\O2k\
Then update.
If you then choose upgrade install of Office2007 it should locate &
remove components that it is upgrading leaving other components eg
Access and Outlook intact

Thanks, but I don't understand the last paragraph. Home & Student
version is not an upgrade, but a stand alone new install. So, using
your first paragraph, if I had uninstalled Office 2000 and custom
installed the 2007 H/S version, how would the latter be able to see the
lack of Access and a version off the 2000 CD as an update? My sense
from reading a couple of other partially relevant posts had been to do
a custom install of 2007 on top of 2000, tho some of those discussions
had been about Office 2003.

Gene

 

[DL]

The MS recommendation for using multiple versions of Office (or components)
is to install earliest edition first into version specific folders

Office versions later than Office2k by default install to a version specific
folder, eg Office10 - Office11 - Office 12
(Office 2007 by default installs to Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office13\ )

I was suggesting that you uninstall Office2k then custom re install to a
specific folder
eg Program Files\Microsoft Office\O2k\
Then update office 2k

Office 2007 may be a full version but on installing from cd, if it sees an
earlier version of Office it offers to 'upgrade the earlier version' That
means Word 2k will be replaced by Word 2007 and etc for the other components
that are the same.
Since S&T doesnt contain Access or Outlook the 2k versions of these will
remain
(PS If you dont accept the 'upgrade' it will install 2007 alongside 2k)

 

[romat]

The MS recommendation for using multiple versions of Office (or
components) is to install earliest edition first into version specific
folders

Office versions later than Office2k by default install to a version
specific folder, eg Office10 - Office11 - Office 12
(Office 2007 by default installs to Program Files\Microsoft
Office\Office13\ )

I was suggesting that you uninstall Office2k then custom re install to
a specific folder
eg Program Files\Microsoft Office\O2k\
Then update office 2k

Office 2007 may be a full version but on installing from cd, if it
sees an earlier version of Office it offers to 'upgrade the earlier
version' That means Word 2k will be replaced by Word 2007 and etc for
the other components that are the same.
Since S&T doesnt contain Access or Outlook the 2k versions of these
will remain
(PS If you dont accept the 'upgrade' it will install 2007 alongside 2k)

Ok, that clarifies it:

uninstall 2000 (backing up settings files first, I assume)
custom reinstall 2000 in a folder named '\02K' (that name only?)
install 2007 and say yes to Upgrade

I suppose in between the last two steps I should get all the updates
from MS for 2000, or will updating 2007 after the install take care of
that too?

Thanks.
RM

 

[DL]

Name the Office2k folder as you wish
Run office update prior to installing office 2007

 

[romat]

Thanks.

Name the Office2k folder as you wish
Run office update prior to installing office 2007

 

[romat]

Everything important installed correctly with your procedure. Just one
thing to tidy up. At the end, after updating 2000 and then installing
2007 custom, Secunia tells me there's a security update for Outlook
2000, 9.0.0.8960, vs. current 9.0.0.6604, but the Office updater isn't
catching it. What to do? Thanks.

RM