Re: office 2007 on vista and xp?

The concept of installing only one copy of the program (on one single partition), but installing it in the same location twice (overwriting the other one), one time from each OS, really is not supported and is not a good one. You should always keep two separate copies of the Program Files, even if it sounds like a waste of space.

If you try the same setup program from XP, does it open?

Patrick Schmid
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"Jeff" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:FC124154-C0D2-43C1-B0EA-491DD8A44FE1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

I have 3 partitions too, C: with xp home, a D: data drive and a small G:
partition for vista. I had office 2003 installed on C: so I installed 2007
over it (in xp) but vista wouldn't let me open any office documents because
it was configured for the application or something like that. When I run the
setup program it says installation failed. If I extract the installation
files and then run that setup it says it can't find any products. So I
can't even get into setup to tell it where to install. Now I've got office
2003 installed on C: and running fine on both.

"Patrick Schmid" wrote:

> Your configuration doesn't sound like it would work. I have three
> partitions myself here. The first partition has Vista B2, the second XP
> Pro and the third only data. I installed Office 2007 fine on the second
> partition from within XP. Then I installed Office 2007 without a problem
> on the first partition from within Vista.
> You should be able to do the same. What are you doing that it complains
> it cannot find any products to install?
>
> Patrick Schmid
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> http://pschmid.net
>
> "Jeff" <Jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:89FFC43B-59AB-4E93-BF79-681359F3592B@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > I have xp and vista beta 2 installed on seperate partitions with office 2007
> > installed through xp. When I try to run an office program through vista, it
> > says the operating system is not configured for the application. And when I
> > try to install office while running vista, it says it could not find any
> > products to install. Is it possible to use office through both operating
> > systems?
>
>

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