office 2007 on vista and xp?

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Jeff

I have xp and vista beta 2 installed on seperate partitions with office 2007
installed through xp. When I try to run an office program through vista, it
says the operating system is not configured for the application. And when I
try to install office while running vista, it says it could not find any
products to install. Is it possible to use office through both operating
systems?
 
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Patrick Schmid

Your configuration doesn't sound like it would work. I have three
partitions myself here. The first partition has Vista B2, the second XP
Pro and the third only data. I installed Office 2007 fine on the second
partition from within XP. Then I installed Office 2007 without a problem
on the first partition from within Vista.
You should be able to do the same. What are you doing that it complains
it cannot find any products to install?

Patrick Schmid
 
J

Jeff

I have 3 partitions too, C: with xp home, a D: data drive and a small G:
partition for vista. I had office 2003 installed on C: so I installed 2007
over it (in xp) but vista wouldn't let me open any office documents because
it was configured for the application or something like that. When I run the
setup program it says installation failed. If I extract the installation
files and then run that setup it says it can't find any products. So I
can't even get into setup to tell it where to install. Now I've got office
2003 installed on C: and running fine on both.
 
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Patrick Schmid

The concept of installing only one copy of the program (on one single
partition), but installing it in the same location twice (overwriting
the other one), one time from each OS, really is not supported and is
not a good one. You should always keep two separate copies of the
Program Files, even if it sounds like a waste of space.

If you try the same setup program from XP, does it open?

Patrick Schmid
 
J

Jeff

Now it won't run in either os.

Patrick Schmid said:
The concept of installing only one copy of the program (on one single
partition), but installing it in the same location twice (overwriting
the other one), one time from each OS, really is not supported and is
not a good one. You should always keep two separate copies of the
Program Files, even if it sounds like a waste of space.

If you try the same setup program from XP, does it open?

Patrick Schmid
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Patrick Schmid

There could be something wrong with the file itself (redownload, clear
temp folder) or setup caught on to your non-supported configuration. I
wouldn't bother trying this again until you have Office 2003 installed
in separate folders for each OS, or no 2003 installed in either OS.


Patrick Schmid
 
J

Jeff

Ok I got it working now. I did 2 seperate installations of 2003 and then
upgraded each to 2007. I think the setup file would only run once, if I
tried to run it again in the same os it would give me errors.
 
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Patrick Schmid

Glad you got it working. I have never tried running the setup program
again after Office 2007 has been installed (except from add/programs of
course).

Patrick Schmid
 
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