problem with office 2003 & visio 2002

[Natxman]

Hello,

I have installed Office 2003 but I still have Visio 2002 installed on my pc.
When I try to use word, it closes unexpectedly, the same with visio. I've
tried a solution that someone suggested me in a Microsoft newsgroup (spanish)
but the only I get was to solve Word problem but Visio still does not work,
it opens a file but when I try to write something on it, it closes again.

Any suggestion or comment will be apreciated...
Thank you all

 

[Gary Shell]

I have Office 2003, Visio 2003 and Visio 2002 installed on the same machine.
My colleagues all use Visio 2003 but I need to maintain an instance of Visio
2002 to use the round-trip-engineering of SQL databases. Sadly that
functionality is STILL missing from any version of Visio 2003. Which makes
it problematic for us in the development community.

However, all three are fully functional. Switching from Visio 2002 to Visio
2003 is a real pain as it takes a couple of minutes to update the registry
like it does on an initial install. But Word and either version of Visio is
fully functional and even run at the same time on my laptop regularly.

My suggestion is to uninstall BOTH applications. Then install Office 2003
and then Visio 2002, being VERY careful to install Visio in a totally
separate folder from Office 2003. If you have any visions of ever
installing Visio 2003 as well, you should allow Office and Visio to save
their install files when it asks during the initial install process. Doing
so will keep you from having to scramble for an install disk when you switch
between Visio 2002 and Visio 2003.

Gary Shell

 

[Al Edlund]

Office 2003 makes the cavalier assumption that if it didn't install a module
it must not be needed and erases some of the dll's that the previous
installs require. That's why you end up installing o2003 and reinstalling
v2002.
Al