Word 2003 Word 2007 on same partition

[Guest]

I'm running 2 versions of Word (03, 07) on the same partition. I placed a
copy of a customized Normal.dot in the templates folder that I configured
when using Word 2003 quite a bit.

Now when I open either version of Word, it either "prepares to install" in
2003 or "configures Office 2007" in 2007.

I thought you could run both versions. Is that not the case. If it is, what
do I need to do to get them to work compatibly?

Thanks

Vince

 

[Graham Mayor]

That's as good as you are going to get. Both share some registry entries and
thus will need to reconfigure when you change.

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[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Vince,

Depending on how well endowed your PC is, you may want to consider using MS Virtual PC to hold the different versions.
http://microsoft.com/virtualpc

The MS Installer sets the file associations, and registry pointers for similar but not identical shared features to the version of
Word you called by starting it. It's a design intention to try to keep from things going 'bang' when you don't expect it. This
happens between say Word 2000 and Word 2003 on the same partition as well.
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I'm running 2 versions of Word (03, 07) on the same partition. I placed a
copy of a customized Normal.dot in the templates folder that I configured
when using Word 2003 quite a bit.

Now when I open either version of Word, it either "prepares to install" in
2003 or "configures Office 2007" in 2007.

I thought you could run both versions. Is that not the case. If it is, what
do I need to do to get them to work compatibly?

Thanks

Vince>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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