Front Page 2003 should work with Office 97, 2000, 2002 !!!

[Guest]

Purchase decision went the other way:

I think most people have a variety of MS Office versions. I have them all.
I wanted to get the latest Frontpage and was willing to buy it at the going
street price, but not with the burden of buying and using Office 2003 to make
it work.

I've been caught by this marketing vice before. It's not that I just resent
it, it's the direct cost plus all the indirect cost that leads to a lot more
work to install and convert, leads to unecessary computer upgrades to run the
usually more demanding programs. I have six or seven computers networked so
then none of them can read the new incompatabile Office files! It has been
my consumer's nightmare several times. I can not and will not do it again.

I'm not saying Microsoft is a monopoly, but this kind of marketing makes me
feel like being trapped in a monopoly. This does not build loyalty. I will
use the Office programs I have and find another program to build my website.

I suggest you make the latest versions of work with three or four legacy
releases, I would not care if I lost some features as long as it worked.
Once you had me in Front Page 2003 and I was very happy, then I might
consider the huge issue of upgrading Office sooner rather than later.

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[Thomas A. Rowe]

FP2003 does work along side prior MS Office versions.

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[Mark Fitzpatrick]

The various Office apps do work along side other versions of Office apps.
The trick is: Don't install shared office components. If you have Office
2000, then go to install FP 2003 you can do it, just select a custom install
and don't include the shared office components, only FP itself. The problem
with installing thared office components for multiple versions is the
various apps get confused by this and begin to break.

Hope this helps,
Mark Fitzpatrick
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage

 

[Gerry Hickman]

FP2003 does work along side prior MS Office versions.

True, but personally I don't recommend running components from multiple
office suites on the same computer. It gets very messy, and especially
in the context of Group Policy Objects, Transforms, AIPs, service packs
and security updates.

It's also worth noting that many settings are shared among Office 2003,
Frontpage 2003 and Project 2003 and that these apps can share the same
"common" files and install to the same folder, use the same branch in
HKCU hive.

I guess on a home computer it's OK, but this guys says he has a network,
so I can't recommend mixing and matching...