installing 2 versions of excel(or office on same pc)

**martindwilson** · 11-23-2008, 10:44 AM

ok ive got my highly expensive office enterprise 2007 disk
what is the best way of installing this so i can still use 97 and 2007. any tips?
i wont bother with outlook but i'd like to try the rest ,mind you onenote,infopath and groove are a complete mystery!

**dominicb** · 11-23-2008, 12:49 PM

Good afternoon martindwilson

Just go right ahead and install it.

I have XL2000, Office 2003 and Office 2007 co-existing quite happily on the same XP installation. Office 2007 found the earlier version and asked if I wanted to keep it (I did) and if I wanted Office 2007 to be the default viewer for any office files (I didn't).

That was about six months ago and no problem since... (touching wood

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HTH

DominicB

**martindwilson** · 11-23-2008, 01:21 PM

well that didnt go to well! it just installed,bang!. now excell2007 is my default for opening excel files,blast.
i still have excel97 and can open it with a shortcut, but i canot change default even changing to old excel.exe in filetypes still opens with 2007.

**shg** · 11-23-2008, 01:27 PM

Can't say for 97, Martin, but after installing Office 2007, I needed to do Detect and Repair on 2003 to restore the default file association.

I sometimes need to do it again following installation of Office 2007 updates.

**martindwilson** · 11-23-2008, 01:38 PM

nope !just tried that still associated with 2007

**dominicb** · 11-23-2008, 01:49 PM

Hi martindwilson

Sorry if I gave you duff information, matey. Just relating my own personal experiences - which seems fairly at odds with yours and shg's experiences.

Are you using XP? If so you could always do a system restore to set your system as it was before Office 2007, before you think about how you want to proceed.

DominicB

**shg** · 11-23-2008, 01:56 PM

Outta ammo, mon frere.

**shg** · 11-23-2008, 02:01 PM

Actually, see http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=162059

Edit: Never mind, that was for preventing files from opening in Explorer.

**martindwilson** · 11-23-2008, 02:03 PM

well i just went to control panel,file types/associations advanced and changed it all there and hey presto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it works NOT
now i get all sorts of messages when i try to open a document directly 2007 eventually opens it but 97 wont. anydoc can be opened from the file menu tho.
just trying a repair of 2007. if that fails im off to system restore

**shg** · 11-23-2008, 02:08 PM

well i just went to control panel,file types/associations advanced and changed it all there and hey presto!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, sorry, I should have told you that didn't work for me either. That was what prompted the D&R.

**martindwilson** · 11-23-2008, 02:38 PM

system restore eh, i just love xp pro. now everything is back. i think next time i'll try a custom install of 2007. one thing i did notice is it was slow. now ive got an amd 64 duel core 6000+ at 3000mhz with 2 gig ddr2-800 ram so its no slouch but excel2007 ran like an old worn out nag as opposed to the nigh on instant -97 version
thanx for the assist chaps, i'll do some googleing to se if there's a way.(lucky i didnt pay the 500 quid for the software or i'd be fuming,but got it on a microsoft home use deal for cost of disk and postage as my company has some deal with MS).