Question about Office 2000 and Office XP on the same computer

[Gordon]

I've read article 290576 in the KB about this, one topic it doesn't cover is
updates. Is this a problem? Do updates automatically update the specific
version, or would I have a problem here?

Many thanks

Gordon

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Gordon,

It depends on which editions of the two versions you have.
For example, if you have Office 2000 that includes, say,
MS Access 2000 and add MS Office XP that doesn't include Access,
the default upgrade will be to leave Access 2000 alone as you're
not installing a replacement. You may want to also check for
any separate Microsoft 2000 series products listed (installed,
but not part of Office) listed in Add/Remove Programs

If you choose custom install in an Office XP upgrade you can
choose which apps to keep delete that are part of Microsoft Office
(except that you can't have two Outlook versions) on the same
boot partition.

When you visit http://officeupdate.com you will be presented with
updates for both product series. The XP/2002 series updates won't
update MS Office 2000 products (with the exception of certain files
that are shared by the two).


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I've read article 290576 in the KB about this, one topic it doesn't cover is
updates. Is this a problem? Do updates automatically update the specific
version, or would I have a problem here?

Many thanks

Gordon >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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[Gordon]

In Bob Buckland ? <75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com> wrote:
|| Hi Gordon,
||
|| It depends on which editions of the two versions you have.
|| For example, if you have Office 2000 that includes, say,
|| MS Access 2000 and add MS Office XP that doesn't include Access,
|| the default upgrade will be to leave Access 2000 alone as you're
|| not installing a replacement. You may want to also check for
|| any separate Microsoft 2000 series products listed (installed,
|| but not part of Office) listed in Add/Remove Programs
||
|| If you choose custom install in an Office XP upgrade you can
|| choose which apps to keep delete that are part of Microsoft Office
|| (except that you can't have two Outlook versions) on the same
|| boot partition.
||
|| When you visit http://officeupdate.com you will be presented with
|| updates for both product series. The XP/2002 series updates won't
|| update MS Office 2000 products (with the exception of certain files
|| that are shared by the two).
||
||
|| =======
|| I've read article
|| 290576 in the KB about this, one topic it doesn't cover is
|| updates. Is this a problem? Do updates automatically update the
|| specific
|| version, or would I have a problem here?
||
|| Many thanks
||
|| Gordon >>
|| --
|| I hope this helps you,
||
|| Bob Buckland ?
|| MS Office System Products MVP
||


Thanks for the info!