Ed
Mon Mar 13 14:25:29 CST 2006
Thanks for the info, Jay. I may have to scrap this altogether. IT's not
going to let me install anything "foreign" on my machine (even if I could
afford it!) And I'm not an "official" programmer, so it depends on whether
they want to go to all this trouble to help someone who helps others with
their macros.
Oh, well. Life rolls on.
Ed
"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> Hi Ed,
>
> You're caught in a Catch-22. Office 2000's installer will replace
> newer DLLs with older ones, stomp on some of Office XP's registry
> entries, and generally make a mess. If you can't reinstall XP
> afterwards, it's going to be a miserable experience.
>
> The alternative -- which is better than side-by-side installation even
> when done right -- is to get a virtual machine environment such as MS
> Virtual PC or VMWare. Install one Office version in a VM, and the
> other in the host operating system or in a separate VM. That way each
> Office thinks it's the only one present and they don't conflict. The
> catch is that you need a separate license for the installation of
> Windows in the VM, which is probably more expensive than licensing
> Office.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
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> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 09:00:16 -0700, "Ed" <ed_millis@NO_SPAM.Yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Thanks for replying, Mike. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening.
>>The
>>XP versions come with the image. To reinstall them separately wold mean
>>having to have a separate version, disk, license, whatever (or so I've
>>been
>>told) for my computer, rather than using just the site license. Sonething
>>about not being able to install just those components from the image vs.
>>the
>>entire image.
>>
>>Ed
>>
>>"Mike" <michaelcontreras@comcast.net> wrote in message
>>news:ubLDJHrRGHA.2224@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>> Short Answer - install Office 2000, then REINSTALL Office 2002 (Office
>>> XP)
>>> ...
>>>
>>> (I'd probably Uninstall Office 2002 first before installing Office 2000,
>>> though ... )
>>>
>>> Make sure that you install the two versions of Office into separate
>>> folders ...
>>>
>>> HTH,
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> "Ed" <ed_millis@NO_SPAM.Yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>> news:uULIZYqRGHA.1572@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>>I posted earlier about having both the XP and 2000 versions of Word and
>>>>Excel on my machine. Jim Cone gave me a huge amount of very useful
>>>>info.
>>>>The very first item, though, was "install the earliest version first".
>>>>That's not going to happen - IT updates our computers by simply applying
>>>>an image. This image includes the XP version of Office.
>>>>
>>>> With that in mind, is there any extra precautions about installing the
>>>> 2000 versions of Word and Excel on a machine with the XP versions
>>>> already
>>>> there?
>>>>
>>>> Ed
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>