Excel 2003 and Excel Viewer on a Terminal Server

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From: Ken West (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/18/04 

Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:48:25 -0700

I have a Terminal Service server that is accessed by
several thin clients. We had Excel viewer installed so
that users could read XLS files from the company website.

We then had a user that needed to be able to edit XLS
files, so we installed Excel 2003 in that users Documents
and Settings folder, with that user being the only one
with permission to use Excel 2003.

Now we get errors every other time another user tries to
open an XLS file.

According to the MS Knowledgebase, you can install Excel
and the Viewer on the same machine, as long as they are
not in the same directory.

Is there something I am missing?

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