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by maria_elena_garcia

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I need to install Office 2000, but need to keep Office 97 running in the same PC with one hard drive.
Reason for it is that I am a trainer and I need to teach both versions in the same PC's(6 in trg rm, plus video projector)

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by dmiles

To accomplish this,you will need to setup a seperate partition and install office 2000 in a seperate directory than Office 97
This can be done by using a third party software such as partition magic or partition commander,there is also a resize utility that you may be able to download from the internet
Hope this helps

by curtis

There are explicit instructions for installing Office 2000 on the same computer that an earlier version of Office is installed. They are located at the Microsoft Support website under the Knowledge Base article Q218861.

You can also get an exhaustive list of Knowledge Base articles concerning Office 2k Setup if you visit support.microsoft.com/search and choose
1) Office 2000 Setup
2) Keyword search
3) Question is "Office 97" (without the quotes)

It IS possible to run both versions on the same computer, but there are some limitations to this type of installation which are covered in the KB articles.
Hope this helps ...

by richtee

I just went through the same scenario that you want to do. You can do this very easily.

There are just two important steps that you MUST do.

First- Create a different folder for the installation of O2K. (There is NO problem for it to be on the same partition as O97, but it must be in a different folder)

Second- During the installation you will be asked if you wish to keep the previous versions of the different office applications. Make sure you say yes to keep the previous versions.

That's all there is to that. There is documentation on the CD to explain this scenario. You can modify up the "Office short cut bar" so one will be O2K and one will be O97.

The only real difference between the two suites is the Access applications. Access is not compatible between the two versions, whereby, Word and Excel integrate with no problem.

Good Luck. Rich

by bohicam1

Just an aside from the answer from poster #3
Yes you can do it and it is simple, during the install, choose custom install, from there you must tell it which folder to install into, then, when the screen asks you to check (or uncheck) the box asking you to delete the older versions, do whichever option allows you to keep a previous version.
Good luck!

Mike

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