Mixing Office Applications

Hi - I managed to install Office XP on my new Windows Vista Home Premium
machine, though I was told that wouldn't happen. It isn't seamless, however,
and I'd like to look at getting Office 2007 Home and Student (for the
affordibility), and keep Access 2002, since Access doesn't come with Home
and Student. Would this work - Office applications from 2 versions? I have
databases that I'd hate to just waste after all this work. Also, anyone have
any word on Expression Web? I've been using FrontPage, and it's now been
discontinued.

Thanks - BG

Bill,

I'm not sure about XP and 2002, but I do have the entire suite of 2003 and
2007 installed, and they work fine.

There are some slight quirks, however. At work, I have installed 2003 and
2007 simultaneously on NUMEROUS computers. On about 80% of these machines,
whenever I open a 2003 application after opening a 2007 application, 2003
sort of "reconfigures" itself, almost as if it's doing a quick reinstall of
itself. It takes about 30 seconds to do this before the application will
start. The same happens when opening any 2007 application after opening any
2003 application, as well. So, here's a a little diagram of when it
happens:

Open Word 2003, then Word 2007: *DOES* happen
Open Word 2007, then Word 2003: *DOES* happen
Open Word 2007, then Excel 2003: *DOES* happen
Open Excel 2003, then Word 2007: *DOES* happen
Open Word 2007, then Excel 2007: Does *NOT* happen
Open Excel 2007, then Word 2007: Does *NOT* happen
Open Word 2003, then Excel 2003: Does *NOT* happen
Open Excel 2003, then Word 2003: Does *NOT* happen

See what I mean?

Like I said, this occurs on maybe 80% of the machines that have this
configuration. There are a slight few computers that -- for reasons
unbeknownst to me -- do not exhibit this behavior at all and open the
application immediately regardless of the Office application that was opened
before it.

Jason



"Bill Gaul" <> wrote in message
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> Hi - I managed to install Office XP on my new Windows Vista Home Premium
> machine, though I was told that wouldn't happen. It isn't seamless,
> however, and I'd like to look at getting Office 2007 Home and Student (for
> the affordibility), and keep Access 2002, since Access doesn't come with
> Home and Student. Would this work - Office applications from 2 versions? I
> have databases that I'd hate to just waste after all this work. Also,
> anyone have any word on Expression Web? I've been using FrontPage, and
> it's now been discontinued.
>
> Thanks - BG

Another way could be to uninstall Office XP completely, install Office 2007
Home and Student; then use the Office XP disk to install Access only.
Do a custom install of Office XP, not typical.

That way, you can select Access by itself from the installation disk.

Once I did it that way with Office 2003, and XP Frontpage. It works.

"Bill Gaul" wrote:

> Hi - I managed to install Office XP on my new Windows Vista Home Premium
> machine, though I was told that wouldn't happen. It isn't seamless, however,
> and I'd like to look at getting Office 2007 Home and Student (for the
> affordibility), and keep Access 2002, since Access doesn't come with Home
> and Student. Would this work - Office applications from 2 versions? I have
> databases that I'd hate to just waste after all this work. Also, anyone have
> any word on Expression Web? I've been using FrontPage, and it's now been
> discontinued.
>
> Thanks - BG
>
>