Dual installation Office 2003, Office 2007   

We have a business need to have BOTH Word 2003 and Word 2007 running on the 
same XPProSP3 machine.  Is there a way to configure the machine so that only 
Word 2003 will open when launching files created with either version?  Word 
2007 would be opened when needed by  launching the app.
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date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 07:23:02 -0700   author:   v2win

Re: Dual installation Office 2003, Office 2007   

You would have to hack the registry to do that.

I am not sure that this is technically possible: each application is
designed to take over the file associations in the registry each time in
launches.

You might be able to bodge it so that Word 2003 opens for .doc, and Word
2007 opens for .docx.

We can't tell you how to do that in here: You have landed in the Macintosh
Word group by mistake.  Sorry about that, not your fault: the Microsoft
website design is appalling!!

The PC Word groups are here:

http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/flyoutoverview.mspx

Cheers


On 8/07/08 10:23 PM, in article
A83201FB-E5AC-4500-99C6-606084CC2A8D@microsoft.com, "v2win"
 wrote:

> We have a business need to have BOTH Word 2003 and Word 2007 running on the
> same XPProSP3 machine.  Is there a way to configure the machine so that only
> Word 2003 will open when launching files created with either version?  Word
> 2007 would be opened when needed by  launching the app.

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia.   mailto:john@mcghie.name

date: Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:36:20 +0800   author:   John McGhie