[b_a88]

Hmm, maybe I culd give 2007 a try then. I think I need 2003 for school and if it just installs 2007 and lets 2003 stay I maybe be able to try both, or maybe it will just mess stuff up.

[phileysmiley]

Hmm, maybe I culd give 2007 a try then. I think I need 2003 for school and if it just installs 2007 and lets 2003 stay I maybe be able to try both, or maybe it will just mess stuff up.

Well, so far it hasn't messed anything up. They warn you to back up, that you could lose your data, etc. etc. but they have to say that for legal reasons. I didn't lose anything. I didn't even have to restart, although it takes about 8 minutes to install. The only thing to watch out for is that if you want a particular file to open in 2007 or 2003, if you just open the file it may not trigger the right app. So just open the app first and then open the file.

[b_a88]

Hmm, maybe I culd give 2007 a try then. I think I need 2003 for school and if it just installs 2007 and lets 2003 stay I maybe be able to try both, or maybe it will just mess stuff up.

Well, so far it hasn't messed anything up. They warn you to back up, that you could lose your data, etc. etc. but they have to say that for legal reasons. I didn't lose anything. I didn't even have to restart, although it takes about 8 minutes to install. The only thing to watch out for is that if you want a particular file to open in 2007 or 2003, if you just open the file it may not trigger the right app. So just open the app first and then open the file.

Ok, I'll wait to see in any one else can replicate 2003 and 2007 installed at the same time before I try it. I've got most of my office documents and files on a usb key also so I shouldn't lose any thing if it does go wrong.

[phileysmiley]

Hmm, maybe I culd give 2007 a try then. I think I need 2003 for school and if it just installs 2007 and lets 2003 stay I maybe be able to try both, or maybe it will just mess stuff up.

Well, so far it hasn't messed anything up. They warn you to back up, that you could lose your data, etc. etc. but they have to say that for legal reasons. I didn't lose anything. I didn't even have to restart, although it takes about 8 minutes to install. The only thing to watch out for is that if you want a particular file to open in 2007 or 2003, if you just open the file it may not trigger the right app. So just open the app first and then open the file.

Ok, I'll wait to see in any one else can replicate 2003 and 2007 installed at the same time before I try it. I've got most of my office documents and files on a usb key also so I shouldn't lose any thing if it does go wrong.

The funny thing is I didn't even want to do that. I wanted to just upgrade from 2003 to 2007. I selected "upgrade" but it just installed separately and left me with both.

[Absolute-Zero]

Yeah, I followed the exact same procedure as Phileysmiley (chose upgrade from the install options) and I've got the same thing, both 2003 and 2007 showing as installed.

If I try to launch Outlook 2003 it says there's a problem with the namespace in one of the DLLs, Outlook 2007 opens no problem.

I've not tried Word, Excel, etc, yet. I'll have a look tonight.

[ODiaz86]

Hmm, I did too followed the exact same procedure as Philey from choosing upgrade from the install options but my's dont did like that, shows that there all (Word, Publisher, Powerpoint, InfoPath, Excel, Access, & Outlook) "2007" for me. I dont see any that saids "2003" installed next to "2007".

[dathorpe00]

Ty going to add remove programs and see if O2K3 is there. You can just uninstall it.

[Absolute-Zero]

Ty going to add remove programs and see if O2K3 is there. You can just uninstall it.

Yeah, point is, though, if you've done an upgrade from one version to another, the upgrade process should do that for you, or at least get rid of shortcuts the original installer created that point to the old version.

[b_a88]

Hmm then maybe I can't do that. One question, is there any difference in the file formats that they save as? I could probably just save the files as 2003 format if it's different because the instructors will be using 2003, I assume, to open my assignments I do for classes.

[ODiaz86]

Hmm then maybe I can't do that. One question, is there any difference in the file formats that they save as? I could probably just save the files as 2003 format if it's different because the instructors will be using 2003, I assume, to open my assignments I do for classes.

I save a document for school on Office 2007 Beta and wanted to see if it open on the schools computer as they have Offce 2002/XP but no luck as the document format is a DOCX and not a DOC. I havent try it on Office 2003 yet to see if it open on there.