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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
You might want to give Virtual PC a try then. There is a 45 day trial
download available on Microsoft's site. The beauty of that solution is that
you do not need to shutdown and restart the Windows session to have access
to the other version of Office.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.
After furious head scratching, jbc asked:
| I don't need daily access to Office 2000. Right now I have a dual
| booting machine with Windows 2000/98 and that is working fine.
| Before I did that, I tried to have 2 versions of Office on the single
| boot machine. I remember following the microsoft instructions and it
| running fine MOST of the time. I can't remember the particulars
| anymore, but there were certain features that didn't work correctly.
|
| I don't have a problem creating a dual booting machine, I still need
| to go back to Office 2000 once in a while and want to make sure that
| everything is running properly 100% of the time. I get slightly
| nervous when I look at a kb article and microsoft doesn't really
| recommend having 2 version on the same machine.
|
| Thanks for the input.
|
| jbc
|
| "garfield-n-odie" wrote:
|
|| That would work too, except that you would only have access to one
|| version of Office at a time, and a dual-boot configuration would use
|| more space on the hard drive because of having to install two
|| operating systems.
||
|| jbc wrote:
||
||| Garfield,
|||
||| Thanks for your quick response. Would it be better to have a dual
||| booting machine?
|||
||| jbc
|||
||| "jbc" wrote:
|||
|||
|||| Hi,
||||
|||| I'm getting ready to purchase a new pc. The pc will come with
|||| Windows XP. I need to run 2 versions of Office Professional (2000
|||| & 2003). What do I need to do to have both version of Office run
|||| properly?
||||
|||| Thanks.
||||
|||| jbc
download available on Microsoft's site. The beauty of that solution is that
you do not need to shutdown and restart the Windows session to have access
to the other version of Office.
--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.
After furious head scratching, jbc asked:
| I don't need daily access to Office 2000. Right now I have a dual
| booting machine with Windows 2000/98 and that is working fine.
| Before I did that, I tried to have 2 versions of Office on the single
| boot machine. I remember following the microsoft instructions and it
| running fine MOST of the time. I can't remember the particulars
| anymore, but there were certain features that didn't work correctly.
|
| I don't have a problem creating a dual booting machine, I still need
| to go back to Office 2000 once in a while and want to make sure that
| everything is running properly 100% of the time. I get slightly
| nervous when I look at a kb article and microsoft doesn't really
| recommend having 2 version on the same machine.
|
| Thanks for the input.
|
| jbc
|
| "garfield-n-odie" wrote:
|
|| That would work too, except that you would only have access to one
|| version of Office at a time, and a dual-boot configuration would use
|| more space on the hard drive because of having to install two
|| operating systems.
||
|| jbc wrote:
||
||| Garfield,
|||
||| Thanks for your quick response. Would it be better to have a dual
||| booting machine?
|||
||| jbc
|||
||| "jbc" wrote:
|||
|||
|||| Hi,
||||
|||| I'm getting ready to purchase a new pc. The pc will come with
|||| Windows XP. I need to run 2 versions of Office Professional (2000
|||| & 2003). What do I need to do to have both version of Office run
|||| properly?
||||
|||| Thanks.
||||
|||| jbc