I wish to maintain a dual environment as some of you do. I wish to be
able to also run XL97 just as if the 03 installation had not been done.
I plan to just answer "no" to any questions to "remove prior" during the
03 installation and plunge in. Can I trust them on that? Any advice or
warnings? Are there any known incompatibilities with other combinations
than 97 and 03 that you want to mention?

On my list is to rename the old links to e.g. Excel97; beware of ADO vs.
DAO references in Access; and give up on OL97 because it can't coexist.

I'll mention http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...985111033.aspx
for the benefit of any readers simply upgrading, but it seems to ignore
the possibility that the prior version is retained.

I have 97, 2000 and 2002/XP on this machine with no problems.

Keep them in separate directories, and it should be okay. I have several
versions of ADO (No idea about DAO, never use it), 2.0 all the way to 2.8.
Of course, unless specifically referenced, the latest gets assigned.

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

"Wild Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I wish to maintain a dual environment as some of you do. I wish to be
> able to also run XL97 just as if the 03 installation had not been done.
> I plan to just answer "no" to any questions to "remove prior" during the
> 03 installation and plunge in. Can I trust them on that? Any advice or
> warnings? Are there any known incompatibilities with other combinations
> than 97 and 03 that you want to mention?
>
> On my list is to rename the old links to e.g. Excel97; beware of ADO vs.
> DAO references in Access; and give up on OL97 because it can't coexist.
>
> I'll mention http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...985111033.aspx
> for the benefit of any readers simply upgrading, but it seems to ignore
> the possibility that the prior version is retained.

Good - thanks for the advice and encouragement.

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:51:45 +0100, "Bob Phillips"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have 97, 2000 and 2002/XP on this machine with no problems.
>
>Keep them in separate directories, and it should be okay. I have several
>versions of ADO (No idea about DAO, never use it), 2.0 all the way to 2.8.
>Of course, unless specifically referenced, the latest gets assigned.

To install Office 2003 with earlier versions of Office, see Microsoft
Knowledge Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/828956/en-us

Dave

"Wild Bill" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I wish to maintain a dual environment as some of you do. I wish to be
> able to also run XL97 just as if the 03 installation had not been done.
> I plan to just answer "no" to any questions to "remove prior" during the
> 03 installation and plunge in. Can I trust them on that? Any advice or
> warnings? Are there any known incompatibilities with other combinations
> than 97 and 03 that you want to mention?
>
> On my list is to rename the old links to e.g. Excel97; beware of ADO vs.
> DAO references in Access; and give up on OL97 because it can't coexist.
>
> I'll mention http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/ex...985111033.aspx
> for the benefit of any readers simply upgrading, but it seems to ignore
> the possibility that the prior version is retained.