Office 2002 & Office 2003 Install

Hi all,

I am a trainer who travel the country to train office
products. I have 5 machines that I take with me, however
our company has a half and half split of office versions
and I would like to build the machine to accommodate for
both. Is it possible to have both versions on the same
machine without conflict? if not, do you have any other
suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Leena

Hi Leena,

You can have both installations on your machine, as long as you set
different install locations, however there can only be one outlook,
the later version that you install.

On my laptop im using Office 2003 while for Office XP, 2000 and 97,I have
built Virtual PC's images using Microsoft's Virtual PC software ( note that
this will require additional Windows licenses...)

If your organization has a EA/Select agreement with Microsoft, you should
have that software with licenses as well - talk to your Admin or IT/System
dept about this.

Take care,

Arie H.
MS MVP
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"Leena" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I am a trainer who travel the country to train office
products. I have 5 machines that I take with me, however
our company has a half and half split of office versions
and I would like to build the machine to accommodate for
both. Is it possible to have both versions on the same
machine without conflict? if not, do you have any other
suggestions?

Thanks in advance,

Leena

Hi Leena

Check out the following article for issues when running multiple versions.

828956 Running Multiple Versions of Microsoft Office with Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=828956

Other thing to be aware of is:

839132 "There are no Office Assistant character files present" error message
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=839132

837825 "There are no Office Assistant character files present" error message
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=837825

For the above articles hotfixes are being built to address these.

Hope this helps!

Regards,
Ian Baird
Microsoft PSS

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