It's not normally a problem Lisa - although in most cases, you would install the older version first (a custom install, leaving out Word), and then the Word 2002. However, you should be able to install O2000 as a custom install without any real problems. Don't forget to patch O2000 once it's installed. Oh, and BTW, you'll LOVE Office 2003, it's a very sweet suite! ;-) ____________________________________ Neil Atwood - Sydney, Australia "If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee; it is the intelligent beverage." Sydney Smith :-----Original Message----- :From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx :[mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Green :Sent: Thursday, 4 September 2003 5:25 AM :To: Mso@Freelists. Org :Subject: [mso] New Computer : :Hi all! :I am the proud owner of a new desktop!! It's 2.6 GHz and :has *lots* of ports :for all sorts of things I haven't got but I'm very :pleased with it. It's :much faster than my normal 350MHz one. : :Howerver... It came with works suite 2002 or something :and a bunch of othwer :software. It has Word 2002 on it. : :What I would like is to keep that word 2002 and install :office 2000 as well :so that I can "decommision" the 350. I'm quite happy with :office 2000 and :though I'm thinking of upgrading it will most likely be :to office 2003 with :the really new features. : :Meanwhile.... Does anyone have experience of installing :and running office :2000 on a system that has word 2002 on it and having the :two coexisting on :the same machine please? : :Lisa ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************