Running both Office 97 & Office 2003 on same PC

[Karen Pender]

I currently have both versions of Office running on 1 PC. (Office 97 & Office
2003) For training purposes I NEED Office 97 as the default program when
opening any .doc, .xls, .ppt files outside of the Word, Excel & PPT programs.

Problem: Any Word, Excel or PPT files I attempt to open outside of each
program (i.e. on desktop, etc) open up with the new version (Office 2003).

I attempted to create a new association for all .doc, .xls, .ppt files to
open with Winword.exe (ver 97), etc. but it doesn't seem to hold. These
documents outside of the programs still open with Word , Excel & PPT 2003.

Is it possible to have all office docs default to opening with Word, Excel &
PPT 97?

Help?

 

[DL]

It maybe a pain, but is it neccessary to open outside the App?

 

[Karen Pender]

Yes, we teach other classes in this training room where we need to show
Windows features, ie. how to open documents outside of Word, Excel, PPT by
double clicking on the file on the desktop or in My Documents. Or attaching
them in an email package (GroupWise) and have them open in Office 97.