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Warren
At the moment at work we are looking at running Office XP and Office 2007
together on the same PC. This is so that users familiar with Office XP can
still use it, and those who want to use 2007 can do so, it will probably be
for a considerable transition period.
However, no matter which way you install both versions of Office (doing the
Microsoft way of XP first then 2007, or installing 2007 then XP so that
double clicking files opens them in Office XP) there's some pretty serious
problems.
If you open Word XP, all seems well. Then if you open Word 2007, Office
2007 setup comes up and takes about 10 minutes to "configure" Office before
Word starts. If you use the same version again, you don't get that delay.
But if I then were to open Office XP, the "Windows Installer is now
configuring Office XP" message comes up and takes some time.
Although other applications within the Office suite do this to a lesser
extent, it's Word that takes ages. Unfortunately it's the one that most
people use, and these sort of delays are just not acceptable.
Is there any way of having Office XP and Office 2007 working without these
"configuring" messages coming up? Both are Enterprise Edition versions.
together on the same PC. This is so that users familiar with Office XP can
still use it, and those who want to use 2007 can do so, it will probably be
for a considerable transition period.
However, no matter which way you install both versions of Office (doing the
Microsoft way of XP first then 2007, or installing 2007 then XP so that
double clicking files opens them in Office XP) there's some pretty serious
problems.
If you open Word XP, all seems well. Then if you open Word 2007, Office
2007 setup comes up and takes about 10 minutes to "configure" Office before
Word starts. If you use the same version again, you don't get that delay.
But if I then were to open Office XP, the "Windows Installer is now
configuring Office XP" message comes up and takes some time.
Although other applications within the Office suite do this to a lesser
extent, it's Word that takes ages. Unfortunately it's the one that most
people use, and these sort of delays are just not acceptable.
Is there any way of having Office XP and Office 2007 working without these
"configuring" messages coming up? Both are Enterprise Edition versions.