Running two versions of Office on the same machine ...

[AdamBC]

I was running Office XP on an XP machine - have just replaced the machine
with one running Vista and bought Office 2007 - I want to work with Office
2007, but the family still want Office XP ('cause that's what theu use at
school/work) - can I run both versions on the Vista machine (and if so,
how?), rather than swapping the monitor over as we're doing now (I didn't
need to replace the monitor and before buying a KVM, I want to know if I can
install both versions on the Vista machine which is MUCH faster!!!)

 

[DL]

You install the earlier version first, update, reboot prior to installing
later version, in parallel, ie retain previous version
Only a single instance of Outlook can be installed, I'd suggest either not
installing OLxp or uninstalling prior to installing O2007

 

[Jay Freedman]

I was running Office XP on an XP machine - have just replaced the machine
with one running Vista and bought Office 2007 - I want to work with Office
2007, but the family still want Office XP ('cause that's what theu use at
school/work) - can I run both versions on the Vista machine (and if so,
how?), rather than swapping the monitor over as we're doing now (I didn't
need to replace the monitor and before buying a KVM, I want to know if I can
install both versions on the Vista machine which is MUCH faster!!!)

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=928091 and
http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm.