Re: Multiple version compatability

Thanks Beth. As I stated, since this machine is used for production and
teaching, I need it at all times. I used the better-safe-than-sorry route
that you said also worked. Once I get my crashed (motherboard) test machine
back I'm going to see exactly what is and what isn't included or overwritten
in an installation where the folder names aren't changed.

I see you had Word 2 installed. I haven't used Word 2 in a long time, as I
said I have Word 6 from 4.3 installed. Does Word 2.0 work OK in XP (I would
suspect that it would work OK)?


"Beth Melton" <bmelton@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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