Excel 2003 and 2007 in same pc

[ryan4646]

Hi all,

can i install Ms Office 2003 and Ms Office 2007 in same Pc ?

[jeffreybrown]

Hi Ryan,

Since it has been a few hours since you posed this question...

Personally, don't have any experience with this, but if you search the net with the question you just asked you may find what you need...

Here is just one Working with Multiple Versions of Office which may be helpful...

[TMS]

In the title, you say "Excel". In the text, you say "Office". Is that significant? Or, given the forum, are you really interested in Excel only?

In theory, you can do this. However, depending on which order you install the versions, double clicking a file won't always open it in the version you expect. So then you need to be careful about the changes you make and the format that you (try to) save the file.

I have one machine with 2003 and 2007, another with 2007 and 2010.

Regards, TMS

[FDibbins]

I have both 2003 and 2007 loaded on my PC at home, both work with no problems

[ryan4646]

In the title, you say "Excel". In the text, you say "Office". Is that significant? Or, given the forum, are you really interested in Excel only?

In theory, you can do this. However, depending on which order you install the versions, double clicking a file won't always open it in the version you expect. So then you need to be careful about the changes you make and the format that you (try to) save the file.

I have one machine with 2003 and 2007, another with 2007 and 2010.

Regards, TMS

Dear Tms,

actually the pc I am holding in the office is really low configured and we need permission to install anything from our IT guy. so before installing it and asking the permission, I thought I can get the suggestion to get the answer so that I can ask IT guy confidently.

I am real interested in this forum and I am learning so much things day by day. Hope you understand my situation. Please don’t misuderstand me. I will try to ignore this kind of questions from next time.

[amankmr17]

If you have a full 2007 license, rather than an "Upgrade" license, you can do a custom install to keep both versions. There are a few special steps you have to take which are described in the following articles:
Working with Multiple Versions of Office (Dual Install) http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/p...cle.asp?ID=762 Supplemental instructions
MS tends to put everything in separate folders and with long wordy names. I decided to consolidate things somewhat. So I navigated to the “Start” menu and edited folder and shortcut names to be more concise. I created a single “Microsoft Office” folder and migrated all of the shortcuts into it. I created shortcuts to the 3 “2003 to 2007 Interactive Command References”. Then I started renaming the shortcuts. In my case I had Office 2003 and Office 2007, so I renamed them as follows:
“2003 Excel”
“2003 PowerPoint”
“2003 Word”
“2007 Excel”
“2007 Excel 2003 to 2007 Cmd Ref”
“2007 PowerPoint”
“2007 PowerPoint 2003 to 2007 Cmd Ref”
“2007 Word”
“2007 Word 2003 to 2007 Cmd Ref”
As well, I decided to keep both sets of ``Office Tools`, so I kept one folder and renamed the shortcuts using the same pattern, ie starting with the year.
I also do custom installations, specifying unique installation folders to further separate the installations. It isn't completely successful, some common folders are still used, but it seems to help.
Microsoft's recommendations are incomplete regarding Word - see http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm for further recommendations with regard to shared resources that are better not shared.
Office apps also work better also if their startup folders are not shared.
In the case of Excel I would relocate the contents of the (Excel 2003) XLSTART folder to a new sub folder of the existing XLSTART -The start-up folder location is stored in the registry at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Xlstart
Set the value to match the sub new folder name e.g. Office11XLSTART. That should sort out Excel 2003. Create a similar sub folder and registry entries for Office 2010 i.e.Office14XLSTART and at HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\14.0\Common\Xlstart
The same idea applies to Word’s startup and template folders.

[peterrc]

Apparently, if you have both Excel 2003 & 2007 (as I do), whichever one you installed last will be the "default".
Irrespective of the file you select, xls or xlsx, it will open in the "default" version which in my case is 2007.
Most of the files I receive/work on are xls so I will have to uninstall 2003 and then reinstall (when I get time).
Hope this helps.

peterrc

[Debraj Roy]

It works best.. if you install Old version first.. then newer version..
at the time of installation.. dont choose "Upgrade" if you need to run both simultaneously..