Can I install Office 2007 and keep 2003

[Tamsin Slatter]

Hi

I have purchased office 2007 basic (word, ppt and xl). But I have office
2003 professional and need to still be able to support my employees who are
running on 2003. I want to be able to use both on the same machine. I
haven't tried to install yet, but thought I'd ask first. Will the installer
force me to upgrade or will I be able to run both versions side by side?

Many thanks

 

[Tamsin Slatter]

I answered my own question - yes - just run the installer, choose Custom
instead of Upgrade and choose to keep existing versions rather than upgrade
them.

 

[LVTravel]

I answered my own question - yes - just run the installer, choose Custom
instead of Upgrade and choose to keep existing versions rather than
upgrade
them.

You got it! I run many different versions side by side.

The web site posted below has many suggestions for installing and running
multiple versions of Office.

One issue you may experience is with Word between the '03 & '07 versions.
It will show an installation screen for a period of time. To alleviate this
issue a registry change is needed for both versions of Office. See this for
an explanation of the registry change to prevent the message:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091/en-us and scroll down to "Multiple
versions of Word"