Running Office 2003 and Office 2007 On Same Computer - A Question

[Jason Saffer]

Hi all,

I'm not sure if there's a newsgroup for Office 2007 -- I haven't been able
to find one -- but here's a question. I'd appreciate input on this.

I have Office 2003 installed on my Windows XP system on the C drive. I have
also now installed Office 2007 on the D drive. I'd like to have access to
both.

When I run Word or Excel or Access in Office 2003, for example, I get a
message at first that says that Office is going through a configuration
process for a few minutes, and then Word 2003, etc. can show up on the
screen, no problem. After this, if I run Access 2003 or Excel 2003, there's
no configuration screen.

However, if I later run Word 2007, for example, I have to go through another
few minutes of the "configuring Office 2007" message and then Word 2007
runs.

In other words, each time I run a program from the other suite, there's this
configuration process that goes on.

Is there any way to avoid this? I'd like to streamline the loading process
and I'm not sure if I can avoid this "configuring" each time I run something
from the other suite.

Thanks for the help!

....Jason

 

[Howard Kaikow]

It has never been possible for two versions of OFFICE to FULLY co-exist in
one OS.

Sounds like Office 2007 is trying to remedy that problem.
If so, there's gotta be something in the "documentation".
Such reconfiguration would be necessary.

The alternative, and proper solution, is to create a multiboot PC and run a
separarte version of Office in each OS.