Running Mixed versions of Office Programmes on one OS 1

[Authors]

Does anyone know if it is advised/ possible to run different versions of office programmes on Window 2000?
For example, one of the girls at work wants Access and Excel 2003 but to keep Word and Outlook 2000. Is this going to make thing difficult?
Any advise woul be gratefully recieved.

 

[MakeItSo]

On my computer at work, I have currently installed
MS Word 95, 97, 2000, XP and 2003, as well as
Excel 97, 2000 & 2003
Access 97, 2000 & 2003
...

You just have to take care of several things:
[ol][li]Always do a custom install into separate folders
(e.g. \Program Files\MSOffice2k)[/li]
[li]You can only have one Outlook version[/li]
[li]You need to respect version installation order for
Access + refer to KB-workaround for 97 & 2000

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q241141

[/li]
[/ol]

Cheers,
Andy

Andreas Galambos
EDP / Technical Support Specialist
(andreas.galambos@bowneglobal.de)
HP:

http://www.andygalambos.de

 

[lwolfson]

If you have Outlook 2003 you can't use Word 2000 and the File > Send To> mail reciepient. For this to work, Word has to be 2003 also.