can I have both Office 2003 Pro and Office 2007 Pro installed?

[Guest]

I develop Access applications and many of my clients will not move to Office
2007 quickly. Can I have have both Office 2003 Pro and 2007 Pro installed on
the same machine.

Does Access 2007 warn of incompatibilities with Office 2003?

 

[Allen Browne]

Do a custom install of Office 2007. You can instruct it to leave your Access
2003 on the disk.

Access 2007 can open mdb files created in Access 2000, 2002, and 2003, and
you can modify everything (tables, forms, code, queries, ...) It does add a
few more hidden system tables (e.g. for managing the nav pane.)

As with previous versions, there can be issues with libraries and ActiveX
control versioning.

If you are running multiple issues of Access under Windows Vista, you need
to be aware of the issue described here:
Errors using multiple versions of Access under Vista
at:
http://allenbrowne.com/bug-17.html

For a list of other issues with Access 2007, see:
Converting to Access 2007
at:
http://allenbrowne.com/Access2007.html
The strangest one is that I am losing help in Access 2003, i.e. sometimes
the help screens come up completely blank (apart from the title bar.)

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the info.

I currently run XP Media Centre and XP Pro on a virtual machine (Parallels).
I would upgrade the Media Centre Office version to Office 2007 Pro and keep
Office 2003 Pro on the virtual machine for testing.

 

[Guest]

You'll only be able to keep one version of Outlook. Other than that I have
Office Pro 97, 2003, and 2007 on my computer.

 

[Guest]

Do you experience the same problems with Access mentioned by Allen Browne?

 

[Guest]

Not yet; however, I'm running it on XP and not Vista. Plus I've only had 2007
installed for about 3 weeks and haven't done any serious development work on
it yet.