Office 2000 & Office XP on same computer

[Patrick]

I have a computer that runs an application that's
certified for Excel 2000, but NOT 2002 so I have (in the
past) installed Office 2000 Pro (full install), then ran
Office XP Pro Setup iva GPO Install with a MST that does
NOT remove Excel 2000.

I've tried installing only Excel 2000 with the rest of
Office 2000 listed as "Not Available" via MST. This works
fine, however when I try to install Office XP Pro it marks
the XP Pro items (except for Excel) as unavailable. I can
manually change this after the install is complete but I'm
confused why it's retaining the settings from 2000.

This happens whether I install via setup.exe or Group
Policy. The install works fine if Office 2000 isn't
installed first.

Any ideas?

 

[Patrick]

Solved my own problem.

If I used a MST with the Office 2000 install that did not
install certain applications or left them as "Install on
first use", these options would carry over to my Office XP
installation.

I only need to keep Excel 2000 from the 2000 suite so I
installed the entire Office 2000 Pro Disk one with an MST
the installed Office XP Pro via GPO with an MST that
removes all previous version of office except Excel 2000.