Can Office X and Office 2004 co-exist?

[John Cunningham]

I've now got my Office 2004/VPC package, but I'm a little hesitant to
install it, as I've seen several comments about Mac/PC compatibility
problems (particularly around Powerpoint).

Can anyone tell me whether Office X can happily co-exist with Office X
on the same HD? Would I be able so switch back & forth? I assume
Entourage would be a problem, but how about the others?

TIA
John

 

[Prasanna]

Hi,

Technically speaking any two versions of Office Applications should not
co-exist in the same Volume. Preferences may get corrupted or Settings
conflict may happen.

 

[Benjamin Amsaleg]

I've now got my Office 2004/VPC package, but I'm a little hesitant to
install it, as I've seen several comments about Mac/PC compatibility
problems (particularly around Powerpoint).

Can anyone tell me whether Office X can happily co-exist with Office X
on the same HD? Would I be able so switch back & forth? I assume
Entourage would be a problem, but how about the others?

TIA
John

Our current company deploiement policy is to remove Office X (put PPT vX)
and install Office:2004 (including PPT:2004)

So I guess it can be done

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I've now got my Office 2004/VPC package, but I'm a little hesitant to
install it, as I've seen several comments about Mac/PC compatibility
problems (particularly around Powerpoint).

Can anyone tell me whether Office X can happily co-exist with Office X
on the same HD? Would I be able so switch back & forth? I assume
Entourage would be a problem, but how about the others?

v.X and 2004 coexist just fine on my machine. You're correct about
Entourage - the databases use different formats. However the others work
just fine, though I rarely use v.X other than for compatibility checks.

 

[Gene van Troyer]

v.X and 2004 coexist just fine on my machine. You're correct about
Entourage - the databases use different formats. However the others work
just fine, though I rarely use v.X other than for compatibility checks.

They will coexist, but I ran into a slight problem: I had v.X Japanese and
2004 English installed, and the English version accessed some of the
Japanese versions settings files, creating a mixture of English and Japanese
menus and alert boxes.

Gene van Troyer