Installing Office 2000 retaining Access 97

[bard]

Hello,

I have a need to upgrade my Office 97 users to Office 2000 while not
upgrading Access from 97 to 2000. This seemed like a simple thing to me
untilizing the Custom Installation Wizard available with ORK. I created an
administrative install point and then created a custom MST file. During the
wizard, I selected to uninstall Excel97, Word97, Powerpoint97. I was careful
to leave Access97. When prompted which components to install, I selected the
"not available" option for Access 2000. Additionally,I specified an
alternate install path than the default.

FInally, I installed using my new transform file on a client machine. All
went flawlessly and each component was put into my alternate directory and
the selected components were removed. The Access 2000 executable however was
installed in the default path and overwrote my Access97 executable. Both
versions of Access are now useless.

I have tried to find any way to stop this from occuring. Has anyone ever
successfully been able to install just some Office 2000 components while
retaining some Office 97 components in this manner? If so, how? I do not
require both Access 97 and Access 2000 (there is a knowledgebase article on
that), I just want Access 97 and the rest of the Office 2000 applications.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[J. Lilliquist]

FInally, I installed using my new transform file on a client machine.
All went flawlessly and each component was put into my alternate
directory and the selected components were removed. The Access 2000
executable however was installed in the default path and overwrote my
Access97 executable. Both versions of Access are now useless.

I know you can mix Office 2000 and XP but I don't know about '97.
In either case I'd NOT do it! It will only lead to more problems !!
WHY are you not updating Access 97?? Access 2000 (Ver. 9) will load
'97 files just fine. I'd just remove it and use the newer version.
Why keep Access '97?

 

[J. Lilliquist]

FInally, I installed using my new transform file on a client machine.
All went flawlessly and each component was put into my alternate
directory and the selected components were removed. The Access 2000
executable however was installed in the default path and overwrote my
Access97 executable. Both versions of Access are now useless.

I know you can mix Office 2000 and XP but I don't know about '97.
In either case I'd NOT do it! It will only lead to more problems !!
WHY are you not updating Access 97?? Access 2000 (Ver. 9) will load
'97 files just fine. I'd just remove it and use the newer version.
Why keep Access '97?

 

[J. Lilliquist]

FInally, I installed using my new transform file on a client machine.
All went flawlessly and each component was put into my alternate
directory and the selected components were removed. The Access 2000
executable however was installed in the default path and overwrote my
Access97 executable. Both versions of Access are now useless.

I know you can mix Office 2000 and XP but I don't know about '97.
In either case I'd NOT do it! It will only lead to more problems !!
WHY are you not updating Access 97?? Access 2000 (Ver. 9) will load
'97 files just fine. I'd just remove it and use the newer version.
Why keep Access '97?

 

[J. Lilliquist]

FInally, I installed using my new transform file on a client machine.
All went flawlessly and each component was put into my alternate
directory and the selected components were removed. The Access 2000
executable however was installed in the default path and overwrote my
Access97 executable. Both versions of Access are now useless.

I know you can mix Office 2000 and XP but I don't know about '97.
In either case I'd NOT do it! It will only lead to more problems !!
WHY are you not updating Access 97?? Access 2000 (Ver. 9) will load
'97 files just fine. I'd just remove it and use the newer version.
Why keep Access '97?

 

[J. Lilliquist]

FInally, I installed using my new transform file on a client machine.
All went flawlessly and each component was put into my alternate
directory and the selected components were removed. The Access 2000
executable however was installed in the default path and overwrote my
Access97 executable. Both versions of Access are now useless.

I know you can mix Office 2000 and XP but I don't know about '97.
In either case I'd NOT do it! It will only lead to more problems !!
WHY are you not updating Access 97?? Access 2000 (Ver. 9) will load
'97 files just fine. I'd just remove it and use the newer version.
Why keep Access '97?

 

[J. Lilliquist]

FInally, I installed using my new transform file on a client machine.
All went flawlessly and each component was put into my alternate
directory and the selected components were removed. The Access 2000
executable however was installed in the default path and overwrote my
Access97 executable. Both versions of Access are now useless.

I know you can mix Office 2000 and XP but I don't know about '97.
In either case I'd NOT do it! It will only lead to more problems !!
WHY are you not updating Access 97?? Access 2000 (Ver. 9) will load
'97 files just fine. I'd just remove it and use the newer version.
Why keep Access '97?

 

[J. Lilliquist]

FInally, I installed using my new transform file on a client machine.
All went flawlessly and each component was put into my alternate
directory and the selected components were removed. The Access 2000
executable however was installed in the default path and overwrote my
Access97 executable. Both versions of Access are now useless.

I know you can mix Office 2000 and XP but I don't know about '97.
In either case I'd NOT do it! It will only lead to more problems !!
WHY are you not updating Access 97?? Access 2000 (Ver. 9) will load
'97 files just fine. I'd just remove it and use the newer version.
Why keep Access '97?

 

[J. Lilliquist]

FInally, I installed using my new transform file on a client machine.
All went flawlessly and each component was put into my alternate
directory and the selected components were removed. The Access 2000
executable however was installed in the default path and overwrote my
Access97 executable. Both versions of Access are now useless.

I know you can mix Office 2000 and XP but I don't know about '97.
In either case I'd NOT do it! It will only lead to more problems !!
WHY are you not updating Access 97?? Access 2000 (Ver. 9) will load
'97 files just fine. I'd just remove it and use the newer version.
Why keep Access '97?

 

[J. Lilliquist]

FInally, I installed using my new transform file on a client machine.
All went flawlessly and each component was put into my alternate
directory and the selected components were removed. The Access 2000
executable however was installed in the default path and overwrote my
Access97 executable. Both versions of Access are now useless.

I know you can mix Office 2000 and XP but I don't know about '97.
In either case I'd NOT do it! It will only lead to more problems !!
WHY are you not updating Access 97?? Access 2000 (Ver. 9) will load
'97 files just fine. I'd just remove it and use the newer version.
Why keep Access '97?

 

[DL]

you can certainly have Access97 and later versions, run both OK

 

[DL]

you can certainly have Access97 and later versions, run both OK

 

[DL]

you can certainly have Access97 and later versions, run both OK

 

[DL]

you can certainly have Access97 and later versions, run both OK

 

[DL]

you can certainly have Access97 and later versions, run both OK

 

[DL]

you can certainly have Access97 and later versions, run both OK

 

[DL]

you can certainly have Access97 and later versions, run both OK

 

[DL]

you can certainly have Access97 and later versions, run both OK

 

[DL]

you can certainly have Access97 and later versions, run both OK