atw: Re: Can you have Office 2007 installed at the same time as Office 2003 (and different instances running concurrently)? - UPDATE

I thought I'd let you know that I've got this working (as far as I can tell).

I initially tried installing 2007, but our company has the install files 
configured to blatt 2003, so once I realised this, I cancelled out, only by 
this time it had blatted 2003. I was able to reinstall 2003 (didn't even lose 
my Normal.dot, for which I was very grateful, I hadn't backed it up!) - but 
having blatted Outlook 2003, I couldn't reinstall it (short story - I've been 
using the Outlook webmail interface for the last few days...).

I did the recommended research, and discovered that you can use the command 
line to open up the setup configuration editor, so I created a new setup 
configuration file which said not to blatt any previous versions of Office 
(there are heaps of things in there by the way, might be interesting to 
investigate one day). Then, of course, it demanded the product key, which 
wasn't available to me, because it was all embedded in the original config 
file, so I had to wait a couple of days for someone to find it for me (though, 
now I'm wonderng if I could have accessed it using the setup config editor...) 
(I've been a bit stupid lately, so it's entirely possible).

Anyway, now running Outlook 2007, which I don't mind because it hasn't really 
fundamentally changed. And have successfully opened Word 2003 and 2007 - I'm 
assuming the rest works ok, too.







From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Fullerton
Sent: Thursday, 19 March 2009 4:20 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Can you have Office 2007 installed at the same time as Office 
2003 (and different instances running concurrently)?

Ah, good information, I'll check out Woody.

Thanks.

________________________________
From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Lewington, Warren J 
(WT)
Sent: Thursday, 19 March 2009 4:07 PM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Can you have Office 2007 installed at the same time as Office 
2003 (and different instances running concurrently)?
You can have one of two configuration types with regards to Office 2007 and 
2003.

There is a registry level change required to run them efficiently concurrently, 
which apparently creates separate instances of the offending dlls that 
otherwise conflict or something like that - definitely to run them seamlessly 
you need to edit the registry. Information is available from a variety of 
sources, (Woodys Office Watch is one who explored that ad infinitum as they 
sometimes do). Occasionally, as Christine has found you may not need to do that.

The other option which I have done is have both versions of the software but I 
don't need to run them concurrently. I don't care about the Outlook overwrite 
if indeed that happened so have never checked; I only need either 2007 or 2003 
programs. In fact I may have loaded just the relevant programmes I needed in 
any case. Don't remember. Anyway, you can run one or other version of 2003 or 
2007 individually without problems on the one machine.

Word does seem to work better at matching table and paragraph styles although 
the separate selection functions for tables and styles and formatting in 2007 
is a difference. PowerPoint is a different beast.

Regards,

Warren


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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Fullerton
Sent: Thursday, 19 March 2009 15:35
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Can you have Office 2007 installed at the same time as Office 
2003 (and different instances running concurrently)?
Hi all

I think in a recent (long-winded and somewhat ranty) thread someone mentioned 
being able to have Word 2003 installed at the same time as Word 2007 - is this 
correct or was I just dreaming (or brain reeling from slogging through the 
long-winded and ranty thread)?

I'm modifying a previously 2007 Powerpoint slide pack for someone, and my 2003 
graphics just don't match up. I'd like to have both versions on my machine at 
once, so I can learn the new stuff at my leisure. (I did actually snaffle a 
second machine for this stuff, but it's at home for my spare time - it would be 
much handier to have it all together in the one place.  Assuming you could run 
the different versions concurrently and they didn't make little streamers of 
smoke come out the back of my machine. Or out of my ears.)

Thanks

Elizabeth Fullerton, CBAP(r)
Business Solutions Architect
Infosys Australia
Ph: +61 3 9911 3507
Fax: +61 3 9911 3398
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