Can you run two versions of Office (XP or 2003 and 2010) on the same PC?
Can you run two versions of Office (XP or 2003 and 2010) on the same PC?
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What about two versions of Word?
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What about two versions of Word?
>> Now why would you want to do that ?
I usually run my office applications from
start > run > cmd > winword / excel / outlook / powerpnt / msaccess
If I am running 2 versions of word, that will be a problem.
Also - during installation, it will ask you if you want to upgrade / overwrite the previous version.
I am not sure if it's a good idea @ 2 versions of word.
You can install a base 2003 version and use the Office Converter Pack to run Word 2007 documents.
>> Now why would you want to do that ?
I usually run my office applications from
start > run > cmd > winword / excel / outlook / powerpnt / msaccess
If I am running 2 versions of word, that will be a problem.
Also - during installation, it will ask you if you want to upgrade / overwrite the previous version.
I am not sure if it's a good idea @ 2 versions of word.
You can install a base 2003 version and use the Office Converter Pack to run Word 2007 documents.
You can only run one version of Outlook, but the rest should work.
ASKER
What about two versions of Word?
>> Now why would you want to do that ?
I usually run my office applications from
start > run > cmd > winword / excel / outlook / powerpnt / msaccess
If I am running 2 versions of word, that will be a problem.
Also - during installation, it will ask you if you want to upgrade / overwrite the previous version.
I am not sure if it's a good idea @ 2 versions of word.
You can install a base 2003 version and use the Office Converter Pack to run Word 2007 documents.
The reason we want to do this is to allow a select group of users to function normally with their current version and also be able to test the new version with our templates, macros etc.
>> Now why would you want to do that ?
I usually run my office applications from
start > run > cmd > winword / excel / outlook / powerpnt / msaccess
If I am running 2 versions of word, that will be a problem.
Also - during installation, it will ask you if you want to upgrade / overwrite the previous version.
I am not sure if it's a good idea @ 2 versions of word.
You can install a base 2003 version and use the Office Converter Pack to run Word 2007 documents.
The reason we want to do this is to allow a select group of users to function normally with their current version and also be able to test the new version with our templates, macros etc.
The reason we want to do this is to allow a select group of users to function normally with their current version and also be able to test the new version with our templates, macros etc.
>> You can run vmWare Workstation from their desktop and load-up your choice of OS (XP/Win7) and your choice of office.
I'd rather keep the work related office version and testing related office versions separate. (dont want testing to mess up my current installation)
Also, I can copy the VM image over (keeping the OS constant) and run different Office versions for testing. (Provision for 2 GB per VM on workstation)
Let me know what you think.
>> You can run vmWare Workstation from their desktop and load-up your choice of OS (XP/Win7) and your choice of office.
I'd rather keep the work related office version and testing related office versions separate. (dont want testing to mess up my current installation)
Also, I can copy the VM image over (keeping the OS constant) and run different Office versions for testing. (Provision for 2 GB per VM on workstation)
Let me know what you think.
Instead of paying for VMware Workstation I'd rather recommend using VMware Player which is free and works just as well, or use Oracle's VirtualBox which apart from being free is opensource.
I am runnin git.
Outlook 2010, word 2003, excel 2003 and Access 97 :((