How to install Excel2003 parallel to Office 2007 (including Excel 2007)?

[Dan]

Hi there,

I want to install Excel 2003 in parallel to Office 2007. How can I do that
and what steps do I have to follow (i.e. order of installation, a repair of
Office 2007 afterwards, etc..) and will it create issues with Office 2007?



Explanation:
I am working with SharePoint 2007 and noticed a problem. Having Office 2007
installed, I can easily edit SP2007 lists offline with Access 2007. However,
this will create Access 2007 files that are not accessible by my fellow
Office/Access 2003 users.

So I need to revert back to editing SP lists offline with the help of Excel.
Unfortunately, Microsoft has decided to move the "Lists" functionality
(which provides bi-directional/online synchronisation with SharePoint lists)
over to Access 2007.

Excel 2007 is not able to fully synchronize with a SharePoint list (only
synchronizing one way, but not bi-directional). There is an add-in that
*should* allow this functionality again, *but* I was not able to have it
work in my environment. It constantly crashes when I try to publish to the
SP site.In any case, it's better to have the same excel version as my
co-workers. At least for that one task.



Thanks

Dan

 

[Tyro]

You can have Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed on the same machine.
However, you can have only one version of Outlook. Office 2003 must be
installed first. When Office 2007 is installed, Outlook 2007 will replace
Outlook 2003. Access 2007 is capable of saving DB's in Access 2003 format.
MS does not encourage having more than one version of Office on the same
machine. To get more information about multiple versions of Office on the
same machine see:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091/en-us

Tyro

 

[Mike Walsh]

I wouldn't do it. (Writing in the SharePoint newsgroup)

Even if a Repair of Office 2007 might make SharePoint functions work
again, every Security (and other) fix made later to either the Office
2003 or the Office 2007 product could mean that some SharePoint
functionality stops working (and you would need to play around with
repair of either 2003 or 2007 again).

I always (home and work) keep two seperate machines, one of which runs
only Office 2003 apps (and Office 2003 level apps such as FP 2003) and
the other of which runs Office 2007 apps (and ... such as SPD 2007).

That's the only safe way to solve your problem too imo.

Note: this is only a way of keeping *your machines* working correctly
with SharePoint sites. It shouldn't affect the ability of your users to
access SharePoint sites (unless they too have parallel 2003 and 2007
apps on their client machines)

Mike Walsh
WSS FAQ www.wssfaq.com / wss.collutions.com
no private e-mail questions please

 

[Dan]

does not sound promising.
thanks anyway. I need to think of something else.
dan

 

[Just Merks]

I just had a discussion today about this. You might consider to install VPC
with a second Windows installation and install Office 2003 on that part.

I don't know if it work for you...

regards,

Just