Use Office 2003 and 2007 concurrently

[Tom Brown]

I used MS Office 2003 for years and loved it. So, when Office 2007 came out
and I got a new laptop, I assumed 2007 would be better. But, now that I
have 2007 installed, I find I would rather have 2003 as the default
installation and then have the same products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.)
available upon demand for special circumstances. Is there any way to
concurrently install both but have 2003 as the primary installation?

Thanks,

Tom

 

[DL]

The MS advice is to install earliest version first, update, then install
later version.
Only the single instance of Outlook can be installed.
The later version will become the default.
Of course this will slow your 2007 learning curve

 

[Tom Brown]

DL,

I don't use Outlook so that's not a problem. I use WLM.

But, since I want 2003 to be the default, should I install 2007 first,
update it, and then install 2003 as the last installation?

Actually, I was ok with the learning curve on 2007, I just prefer the
simplicity of 2003.

Thanks,

Tom