Re: Multiple version compatability

That hasn't been my experience. Starting in Office XP, they started using
different "Office Bin" folders. Office XP uses Office10, Office 2003, Office
11, and Office 2007, Office12. If you use the Custom install and specify you
want to keep the previous versions installed then there should be no worries
about overwriting anything*.

My experience has also been to leave the installation folder "as is" if
possible and at the same time I've also found it doesn't hurt to change the
folder name if you're uncertain. :-)

More on side-by-side installations can be found in this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928091/en-us

*When I first installed Office 2007 I had Word 2 - Office 2003 installed. I
used the Custom install and opted to keep all of my previous versions and
left the default folder names, (I was testing this aspect of the installer -
not trying to take precautions ;-) ), and all of the applications worked
fine. I didn't notice any differences in the templates or clipart. If
anything they were merged in the same folders and not replaced.

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"LVTravel" <noone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It definitely depends on how you do the install. Just to try what I said,
I installed Office 12 (2007) on a different computer. I did choose the
custom installation and told it not to overwrite the previous
installation. It attempted to install into the default Office directory
where I had Office 97. It possibly would have overwritten some of the 97
files. I changed it to Office-07 and it created the new directory and all
is well. Since I didn't want to attempt this test on a working machine
without the change, I don't know exactly what the outcome would have been.
This machine is a teaching machine and I use it constantly so I couldn't
afford a lot of downtime reloading if something went wrong. It currently
has Office 4.3 (Win 3.1 version) Office 97, 2000, 2002, 2003, & 2007 all
in separate folders (directories) setup on install and all function
properly. Never did get a copy of Office 95 to install.

I believe, but I may be wrong, that if you don't specify a new folder, the
media, template and clipart folders would be overwritten during the
install. This way, I know that they won't.

"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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Is it not the case that all Office versions later than 2000 install to
version specific folders eg \Office11, \Office12 etc?


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