warren said:
I am buying a new computer with Office 2003 Small Business
edition installed from Dell Refurbished. I own Office 2000
professional. Can I add my Access 2000 to the Office 2003
after I get the computer.
Yes, you can. I run a combo like that myself. The only
caveat I can think of is, if it's not alrerady installed,
install 2003 first. Then, when you install the Offic 2000
Pro components, whenever you have the option to choose the
folder the files go to, use a non-default folder. It seems
to keep "arguements" down somehow. Wjhen I did it, I told
it to use Office2000Pro for the folder because, for whatever
reason, it wanted to put it into the "other" already
existing 2003 Office folders.
Also, expect to see "Please wait while Office 200x
configures..." type messages when you go from 2000 to 2003
and vice-versa. They're normal and all will workfine.
Apparently they can be aware that they coexist and must
share some files somehow; never did get a good explanation
of what as going on. Takes it about 4 seconds to run, &
then the progs start. Couldn't tell you now where to find
it, but MS did have the info on their web site for this kind
of thing.
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