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David,

I searched the MS Knowledge base numerous ways trying to find this information and did not even come close.  I gave up, went to Google, and found yours.  Thanks for making this available.

Frank

I just consider to apply for the MCSE Certification Exam and come across your site. It is a very interesting post that I will surely recommend to my readers.

David,

I installed the trial version of office 2007 and used it for a month or so with Vista Premium.  I then decided to uninstall it and install office 2003.  The PSTs from 2007 were still there and when I ran Outlook 2003 it picked them up and tried to start.  I then get the following error "Microsoft Office has stopped working", options: "check online for solution and close program" (nothing found) or "close the program".

I have since uninstalled Office 2003 and removed all profiles and even the Outlook folder that held the PSTs.  But reinstalling Office 2003 yields the same error when trying to run Outlook.

Is there something I need to remove to allow Office 2003 to work when reinstalled, Outlook 2003 seems to be the only program that is having problems?

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Dane

David,

Thanks for the article. I've recently installed Office 2007 on a computer that previously had Office 2003 installed. During the install process, I chose to uninstall all the 2003 applications apart from Word. Once I'd confirmed that Word 2007 wa spropermy installed and working, I then uninstalled Word 2003 too.

However, found I needed to reinstall Word 2003. I really like Word 2007, but am a professional translator and need to use certain plugins for my job, which seem to work much faster with Word 2003 than Word 2007. Now, when I start up 2007 after using Word 2003, I get a startup/configuration message as described in the Knowledge Base article you linked to:

"If you have multiple versions of Word installed on the computer, the Windows Installer may start when you start Microsoft Office Word 2007. And, a message that states that Windows Installer is preparing to install Word may be displayed. You may receive this message before Word starts.The Windows Installer runs whenever the version of Word that you start is not the one that is registered."

I then have to wait several minutes before I can use Word 2007. I realise that I did not strictly adhere to the installation order set out in the article, since I reinstalled Word 2003 after Word 2007 was already installed. I found another article (not on the Microsoft site) which recommended doing a "repair" installation of 2007, which it said would have the same effect as doing a fresh install of 2007. I ran the "repair" installation, which seemed to be churning away for quite a while, but the end result is still the same - each time I want to switch back to 2007 after using 2003, I have to wait ages for it to run through a configuration process.

Sorry for the length of this message, but wanted to make sure I spelt things out clearly. I can boil it down to two questions:

1. Is it possible to have Word 2003 and Word 2007 installed on the same PC, and to be able to switch "seamlessly" between them, without having to wait for a configuration process each time?

2. Assuming it is possible, what do I need to do to get it to happen on my machine? Should I completely uninstall both versions of Office and then reinstall in the correct order (Word 2003 followed by Office 2007)?

Thanks in anticipation,

Rob

David,

Thanks for your reply. I'll check back next week to see if you've been able to throw any light on this.

Regards,

Rob

Can someone answer Dane Hedrick  question?

I have the same problem, I want to go back to 2003?

Hi Dave,

Just wondering whether you've had chance to look at the issue I raised - or if you're likely to be able to soon?

Thanks in anticipation,

Rob

Hi Dave,

Sorry to pester - wondering wheter you've gone on holiday or are just busy with other things...?

Just that I'm desperate to be able to use Word 2007 but need to solve this problem of it coexisting with 2003 without having to reconfigure every time.

Yours hopefully,

Rob

Thanks, Dave - will keep checking back. Al the best with the job change!

Rob

I too am having the same problems that Rob Grayson is experiencing. I installed the programs in the correct order but put Office 2003 in a different install folder Program Files\Microsoft Office 2003 rather than just Microsoft Office...

I was hoping that maybe I could configure the Open With menu or the Send to Menu to control which version the file opens in, but I can't seem to work out how to change the Open With menu in Vista. Excel works well always opening in the one you have open but Word and Power Point are a real pain. If there is any solution to this I would love to know.

I have been asked this many times following up on the blog entry Installing Office 2003 and Office 2007

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David,

This fix works a dream. Thank you so much for your help - that's going to make life a lot easier for me.

Cheers,

Rob

This fix works for everything except Access... for me.  Is anyone else experiencing the same issue or is it just me?

Thanks for the great work!

Thanks heaps for that David, it works very well!!!!

Any thoughts on the Open With... option to decide which app to open a file with? the way I work is to browse through explorer first to find the file that I want to work with. It is very difficult for me to switch back to opening the application first and then using File > Open to then browse for the fle.

One thing I have done is install Start ++ (www.brandontools.com) and set up shortcuts w3 and w7 for word 2003 and 2007 etc which helps a lot also, but I would love to be able to choose from explorer.

Thanks so much for your help David.

David -

is it possible to install Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 on Vista? I am looking at a new laptop and the ones i have seen only come with Vista and not XP. Any ideas as to whether or not Adobe CS Premium can be installed too?

thanks a bunch for your help David.

Chris

Our academic environment requires that we have both Office 2003 and Office 2007, with Office 2003 being the default application.

This can be done by installing 2007, and then 2003, adding the NoReReg dword to the registry for Word. All programs use 2003 applications by default.

The Problem that we are having however is with Access. When Access 2007 is run, the Office 2007 setup runs, which changes all of the applications back to Office 2007 as default. (Everything, word, excel, powerpoint, etc)

When Access 2003 is run after this, it runs the Office 2003 setup, however this only changes Access 2003 back to the default app. The other apps remain 2007 defaults.

The NoReReg tag does not work for Access.

Any thoughts?

I too am having an issue with the NoReReg tag for Access and having huge problems with Access. I am just about to re-build my PC without Office 2003 and 2007 on there together - it just doesn't seem to work. My problem is that a brand new Access Database created in Access 2003 with VBA code in it creates a reference to Access 12 and I can not work out how to get rid of it or replace the reference with the Access 11 reference. Therefore none of my VBA code will work, plus whenever I go to create any new code using the wizards, Access crashes. I am compeltely at the end of my tether with it.

Wow, I found a fix for my Access References problem - it is only a problem running 2 access versions in Vista. Allen Browne an Access MVP has the answers here allenbrowne.com/bug-17.html. I used the option to run as administrator and it works well.

Now if we can only get the NoReReg option working for access all will be well.

Dave,

I am impressed with your knowledge and would like to pass something by you. I have a 2007 home and student edition. It works great except that it did not contained outlook. My problem is that when typing an email I no longer have word as an email editor. It takes up my time having to wait until the end to do the spell and check. Any suggestions?

Thanking you ahead of time.

Randall

Hi David, I am currently running ofice 2003 (student and teacher version) and am looking to install/replace this with office 2007 small business edition. Will I need to uninstall the 2003 version or will it simply be replaced when I load the 2007 version. Any help appreciated  

Sure glad I found you:) I'm about to install 07 along with 03 and really glad I searched first. Thanks:)

I have been given an Office Laptop with Office 2003 and XP with VPN's etc and I personally have Vista with Office 2007 with Business Contact Manager.   i have installed BCM for 2003 and tried to export 2007 BCM to BCM 2003 and this of course hasn't worked.    I had hoped I could run Outlook 2007 as a separate programme on the Office Laptop, but from reading your blogs, it appears I have about as much chance as platting fog.   Is there no workaround.   Bye the way exellent site.

thanks

Craig

I hav installed both office 2003 pro and office 2007 pro (excl outlook 2003) on my xp laptop, I have done the reg fix to stop  the problems loading but can not find where to put the fix so that it does not try to reloaon access startup, any ideas?

I have Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed on the same computer.  The NoReReg works fine if configured but only works for that current user.  My sitation is - as many as 25-30 students will be logging in with individual logins during the day.  Is there a registry hack that I can do so that the NoReReg will work for all users on that computer rather than just the current user that the NoReReg was performed in.

If I were to set it up in a startup file on the local computer - exactly what would I include and would that run for a limited user that logs on as well.  Because in order to make changes to the registry - a person needs to be an administrator.  This is in a lab setting (one room) and students will be loggin on.  All the rest of my labs I have only office 2007.

This is going to be a bit of a silly question, but is it possible to just uninstall certain programmes from Office 2002?  I've purchased Office Standard 2007 which only comes with Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint, but the laptop came with the full Office 2002 installed (Publisher, Frontpage ,Access, etc) which I hardly use, but just in case I did need to access them one day, it seems like a good idea to keep them.

Thanks!

David,

Thank you. This really helps! :D

How to make ms word 2003 the default, instead of ms word 2007? I have both. Now, when I open documents with 2click they open with ms word 2007. I also, thank you very much for your above solutions ( the one with installer error).

Comment for Jennifer Gardner, a batch file ran from the startup folder in the all users group should work for this.  Limited users can make changes to their own settings even if they are in the registry.  I tested this on the Guest user account and this worked fine.  What you would need to do is create a batch file (Can be any name you want followed by ".bat" without quotes) and put the previously given fix in it (reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1)  Then move the batch file to the "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup" folder.  At this point the fix should be applied every time someone logs into the computer.  If you don't know how to make a batch file a quick search on the internet should give you some examples.

Bill

My husband just installed Office Professional 2007, and he had a previous version of Office 2003 loaded on that computer.  When trying to access the online features for Office 2007, it won't let him use them and says he has illegal versions of 2003 that he must uninstall. He called tec support, and they also said he had to uninstall 2003, but he cannot even find the program to uninstall. Also, he bought the 2007 thinking it would get rid of an aggravating "microsoft is preparing to install..." window that kept popping up, and prevented use of Outlook (which is still not working).  Suggestions would be so very welcome!

Dave, thanks a lot. Your recommendation to add NoReReg value has fixed the problem for me.

I uninstalled the Home and Student version I got with my laptop and then installed the Enterprise version. After that every time I got the configuring process window. After adding NoReReg this no longer happens.

By the way, starting Word as administrator didn't help.

However, doing the same thing didn't help the same problem I have with Access.

And Excel displays a message box that says "stdole32.tlb" after acknowledging which Excel starts the configuration process.

Do you have any ideas how to fix these problems?

Hi Dave,

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

Above mentioned thing will work in workgroup computers, could you please tell me that i m Just a administrator and if i make changes through batch file or something like group policy on the system only, in that case also domain GP will overwrite my system Gp. do u have any solution for this?

Please let me know...waiting for ur reply!!

Thanks!!

Hi David...

Is there a solution yet to make ms word 2003 the default, instead of ms word 2007? I have both. Now, when I open documents with 2click they open with ms word 2007.

Ever Hopeful :)

TTFN

DWH

Hi,

just heared from my customer that the VB word automatizations doesn't work any longer. after a short discussion we found out that there was a Off 2007 installed and deinstalled and after that Off 2003 new installed. now an error appeared in my VB application at the instruction  

<set object = New word.application>.

any ideas ?

thanksin advance

Hi David,

i think MS will not support OEM products (same problem since years)

uwe

Dave,

Thank you for the valuable information.  I am wondering if you would know how the OWC (Office Web Component) works when both 2003 and 2007 versions of office are installed?  Ie: if an application uses OWC for a pivot table which version of the pivot will be loaded?

Thank you in advance

David,

Great tips!  Like a few others that have commented, I am also having trouble with abolishing the install/configure message with Access.  When I entered the registry, (regedit) there is no Options folder under Access, so it would make sense that running the following would not work:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Access\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

Is there a solution that I am overlooking??  Thanks.

I've installed both Office 2003 and Office 2007 but I want the .doc file formats to be opened in Word 2003 only instead of Word 2007. How do I do this?

David,

I have Off-2003 and off 2007 in XP how to make 2003 as default (i.e while opening any office file it should open in office 2003), can you please help me out??

Hello David,

I have Word, Excel and Powerpoint 2007 loaded on my laptop.  I currently have Outlook 2000 and everything is working GREAT.  I have been looking at some of the features in Outlook 2003 and would like to upgrade and download this onto my computer.  Will this cause problems, are there steps I need to take before loading or do you recommend not mixing the two?

Thank you in advance!

Purchased HP system with "image" of Office 2007-requires purchase of license ; BUT I don't want it. I want to use my Office 2003 SBE. Have receive conflicting instructions from both HP and Microsoft on what to do. Haven't touched it yet....

Thanks for input in advance

Hi David,

    Wondering if you have some answers to this situation... I have a IBM ThinkPad with Vista Business (OEM).  It came with a trial of Office 2007 installed.  Had to uninstall Office 2007 and install Office Professional Edition 2003.

Lately, have been having issues with Word.  Documents are not saving, getting several error messages in Word, for example:  "Word could not create the work file.  Check the temp environment variable."  "Word has insufficient memory.  Do you want to save Document 1 as a Rescue Document?"    Anyhow, one of the solutions on The Word MVP site (http://word.mvps.org) was to edit a section of the registry.  Well, what I discovered was that the registry still has Office 2007 stuff in it.  How likely is it that the Office 2007 registry "junk" is creating issues with Office 2003?  Any ideas.  Can you give me step-by-step instructions on how to clean up the registry?  Thank you in advance for you time and attention.

Respectfully,

Estella

Hi - Great info on here.  I'm struggling to make Office 2007 the default suite of apps (or Excel 2007 to be more precise) now I have Excel 2003 installed.

There is a specifc need to have both installed (which I won't go into) but suffice to say, with both installed, Excel 2003 seems to open as default at file launch, unless Excel 2007 is already open, in which case it opens 2007 version of excel.exe

Do you have any idea which area I have to play with (Registry?) in order to determine which excel.exe get;s launch by default.  I tried fiddling with Folder Options in order to determine which program launches which extension, however no matter how many times I try pointing the extension to excel.exe (2007 version) still only seems to recognise excel 2003 (I suspect a Path or something at work)

Any info you could give me would be great.

How can i open my word documents with word 2003 instead of word 2007 as i have both microsoft

offices installed.

Any info you could give me would be great.

I installed Office 2003 AFTER installing Office 2007 (yes, got tired of the 2007 interface and searching for hidden functions), but then frequently got the 'Configuring office' pop-up, for example when starting a new mail in Outlook 2007.

The solution mentioned above:

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

seems to get rid of these annoying install screens.

Thanks a lot !!!

Your inforrmation on running Word2003 and Word 2007 on the same computer SAVED ME!!!!!  Thanks sooooooo much!  

I have problem running dialog Windows Installer, "Please wait while Windows configures Microsoft Office Frontpage 2003 when start any program on Windows Vista. I reinstall Frontpage 2003 anytime it same prpblem. I try command from people anwser, but same same. why ? plaese help me.

Thank you for providing THE solution to allowing two versions of MS Word (2007 and XP/2002) to co-exist peacefully. Adding "NoReReg" to the registry works exactly as described.

coma_b

Any update on how to make Excel 2003 the default on open and not Excel 2007 ?

Regards

To default to Excel 2003 you have to reset your file association from 2007 to 2003.

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

Start>Run "C:\your path to\office11\excel.exe" /regserver

That's it !

To default to Excel 2007 you have to reset your file association from 2003 to 2007.

Close Excel first and On the Windows Taskbar

Start>Run "C:\your path to\office12\excel.exe" /regserver

That's it !

Dear David,

First of all thanks for this amazing blog.

I have Office 2003 on my system and want to load Office 2007(home and student edition).

I do want to keep using Outlook 2003. Is that possible?

Many thanks.

Yoav

Apologies if this has been asked before but i am in a hurry and dont have time to trawl through the above answers!

I have both 2003 and 2007 installed.

How do i set my laptop up so that when i click open a .doc file, 2003 opens up and if i click open a .docx file, 2007 opens?

Ive tried looking at File Types within the Folder Options but they both point to winword.exe and 2007 continues to be the app that takes over. (I can open both individually as per the fix with the dialog installer box, that is fixed).

Any help would be much appriciated!

Paul P.

Thanks so much for this info - I teach a class and needed to be able to demo in both 2003 and 2007. My IT people said it couldn't be done but your directions were wonderful and it works beautifully! Merci!

Thanks! Worked fine for me (after restart). What a relief!

This blog has been quite informative.Tks to David and the contributers :)

Reg

Roo

Hy all,

I'm a web developper and I need both Outlook 2003 and 2007 to make sure that my mail dev are ok in this version. I have try to install 2003 after 2007 .... but the last one replace the previous one ... have try to copy the pst, change the directory/name of the pst file ...

I there a solution (change the reg for exemple) to have both the 2 version with 2 pst files and different account ...

Thanks for you answers :-)

I have tried to install Office 2007 on a machines running XP and Vista respectively. The error message comes when during installation that says 'installation has failed' and it rolls it back... I tried with 3 different CD on different machines... Can anyone help?

Thanx for all the info on this blog ... In the articles was THE answer for my question ... I installed Office 2003 and Office 2007 on one system ... I wanted Excel 2003 to start when the extension was .xls and Excel 2007 when the extension was .xlsx ...

The /regserver command did the trick ... Thanx ...

Hi David

MAny thanks for all this and your registry fix. I had a slightly different requirement (don't we all) wher I use and have installed Office 2007 but one customer who insists I use Word 2003. So I installed Word 2003 into a different directory from that suggested (probably not required) then ran your reg fix. I then had to run it again with "12.0" as the Office version - everything now works perfectly, even though I installed in the wrong order.

Thanks again,

Jeremy

David thanks so much for working so hard on everyone's questions.  I have actually have a similiar question to sumanta.  I have both 2007 and 2003 on my machine.  I want 2003 to open the .ppt and 2007 to open the .pptx.  I can't seem to get 2007 to stop opening 2003 files.  Any ideas?

Does anybody know if 2003 Excel macros work in 2007 version?

Thanks

Important clarification on the "regserver" commands given.  

Excel 11 (2003) files have the extension .xls

Excel 12 (2007) files have the extension .xlsx

You would think that Windows would be smart enough to differentiate between the two - and it is.  But the install of 2007 is dumb enough to take over BOTH extensions, and after the install, all "xls" files begin opening in Excel 2007.

The workaround that has been posted is to set Excel so that it "defaults" to ALWAYS open v11 or so that it "defaults" to ALWAYS open v12  -  by the /regserver command.  

Actually - you want the Excel file to open in the correctly associated Excel version - not to have any "Default" for both xls and xlsx

So all you really want is to fix Excel so that it correcty see ".xls" as v11 and ".x;sx" as v12.  Therefore you only need to enter one of the two commands given previously:

Start / Run . . .

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Excel.exe" /regserver  <ENTER>

(you need the double-quotes since there is a space):

DONE !!  

Now you can double-click any Excel file and it will open in the appropriate version application (xls files will open into Excel 2003  and  xlsx files will open into Excel 2007).

I have a few macro's that I wrote in 2003 and am now running in 2007.  So far they are running perfectly.  One of them is almost 3000 lines of code !!  You need to save the file with the macro Excel extension, "xlsm".

Still, I would not say that "any" macro from Excel 2003 will run perfectly in Excel 2007, since there are so many differences - but so far so good.

I see many questions for changing defailt program for opening .doc files on double click, but no answers? Did anybody find a solution how to change the association of .doc files to Word 2003?

Thanks for the great tips David, lots of good information here!

I have question

I have office 2007 & I need to send attached file to someone dose not have office 2007, but office 2003, what can I do so he can open my file 2003 formated ?

Thanks a lot for your help

Adel

Thank you so much for this information, it's going to save me so much time as I switch between the two.

Brenda

Hello,

I have an application written in access 2003 and was wondering how to access the app running office 2007? Would there be any conflicts? Also, how do I make access 2003 default when opening?

Start / Run . . .

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\Access.exe" /regserver  <ENTER>

I have success to use Office 2003 and 2007 in the same OS except Ms. Access, they always reinstall or configure when i open them in role

Dear David,

Good stuff. Worked really perfect in my case.

Many thanks mate.

Cheers!

Alpha

I already have Office 2007 installed on my laptop. My boss wants me to build a complex spreadsheet, but he only has 2003.

I want to install Office 2003 on my system, to save any incompatibility issues (i only have one chance to get it right).

My question is can I install office 2003 on a system that already has office 2007?

My mom had a trial version of Office 2003 on Win XP when she purchased her computer new. I uninstalled it to free up room and it took away her spell check utility in Outlook Express. She likes using Outlook and needs spell check. I downloaded a trial cersion of Office 2007, but I think it was only Powerpoint. Anyways it gave her spell check back in Outlook but now it is in French. NO English. The only thing she wants is Outlook and spell check to correct her email messages. What can I do?

Cheers for that... was sweating for a second when I got told this is happening on our CEO's machine after I packaged it. Whoops!

Thanks so much to everyone for the fixes to get Office 2003 & Office 2007 to run properly! :)

I have a server , can i create 2 accounts with different profile, one with 2003 and other 2007, runnng acroos the server? How? I have an exchange server

David,

Thank u very much for this  article.now its solved.

will office 03 get uninstalled while installing office 07 ?

Hi, I've got 2007 at the minute but all the coursework I do in school is in 2003. Can I downgrade to 2003 somehow without paying??? Please reply asap coursework due in soon!!

To Dee:

I think you are asking the wrong question. If all you want to do is open and edit or produce Word 2003 documents, you don't need Word 2003 at all. Just set Word 2007 to save files in the Word 97-2003 format.

Go to Word Options, Save and choose "Word 97-2003 Document (*.doc)" in the dialog and click OK. All future documents will default to the older format.

Hi,

I'm trying to use Office 2003 Pro (NO Outlook installed) with Outlook 2007. I'm installing 2003 first (not installing Outlook 2003 with this), then installing Outlook 2007. Outlook works just fine, while the Office apps do not. After launching the first time (Word for example), it will never launch again - it just crashes every time.

This is even occurring after a clean install of XP with fresh apps installed (in the correct order according to MS). If anyone has any ideas I'd love to hear them!

Thanks,

-MRCUR

thanks very much for your simple reg fix for the constantly opening 'installing' problem for Winword 2003.

It works well, and saved me lots of time following more complex & useless 'fixes'.

     Neil

Hi David -

I had Office 2003 Proffesional installed and then I installed Office 2007 H&S. Now I can't edit emails in Outlook 2003 with Word 2003 because it says it can't find it. After 30 minutes on the phone with MS they couldn't help. I would be so appreciative to you if you could. I saw this question was asked by Randall further up in the comments, but didn't see any response.

Thanks,

Chaim

Dumb question..I have office 2003 and bought home and student 2007 and noticed that it doesn't contain outlook 2007.  will the installation of the 2007 office suite wipe out the 2003 outlook program?  

I have 2003 and 2007 installed on one of my machines and when I double clicked on a graph in 2003, it launches 2007 for editing of the graph.  What causes this and can it be avoided?  Or is it just that the machine knows that the graph might be a 2007 graph so it defaults to 2007?

Thanks!

Thanks David,

What you say makes perfect sense to me, I just wonder if this will cause any instability in Ppt 2003.  I guess I'll just have to try it instead of asking you! :)

take care,

Speziak

Great site David. Thanks for the info.  Was having trouble reading/editing 2003 Access files with the newer 2007 Access, so was searching to see if I can install 2003 back on w/o uninstalling 2007.

On another note, you should correct a typo on your banner.  "I have put IT the effort and earned..."  Don't u mean "put IN the effort"?  Or is "putting IT the effort" a new hip saying that in my uncool ignorance, am not aware of?

I currently have Office 2003 Pro installed (Vista OS) and want to install Office 2007 Outlook, Word, Power point & Excel only as I have trouble with workgroup security in Access 2007.  Will I have to uninstall Outlook, Word, Powerpoint & Excel 2003 or will 2007 simply upgrade them.  If I need to uninstal them, how do I do this from the control panel as it seems to view Office as a complete package & not individual programs (I'm too nervous to click Yes when asked the question "are you sure you want to uninstal Office Pro 2003.

I have limited skills - knowing just enough to be dangerous!

Hi David,

I have just replaced my old PC and it has come with Microsoft Office 7 trial...I hate it! and my old saved emails don't want to open properly or at all. I would rather like to go back entirely to MS Office Student and Teacher 2003. Can I just load it and request it to remove Office 7 or do I still need Office 7 on my PC?

Thanks

Sons

For associating .doc to 2003 and .docx to 2007, pretty simple solution is to rename the 2003 winword.exe file to word2003.exe and right click on an old .doc word document and "open with", browse to newly created word2003.exe and tick "always use this", and viola - .doc is associated with 2003 and .docx is 2007.

Reference and thanks goes to: www.edugeek.net/.../23346-word-2003-word-2007-doc-file-association-problem.html

Thanks for all the help. This got me most of the way. I was getting the installer popup everytime I opened an Excel or Word file. I added the reg entries:

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

It didn't make a difference.

Then just for the hell of it I did a repair on Office 2007. Now all better!

Hope it helps someone!

Patrick

I have Office 2003 on a new Windows 7 machine.  When I am working on Power Point,  I keep getting a pop-up window that says:

"The Office Assistant requires Microsft Agent 2.0 or Later.  This product is available on the Office System Pack"

How do I turn off the Office Assistant, so that this window will stop popping up?  It pops up every few seconds, making it almost impossible to work.

Will this fix work on Windows 7 64-bit PCs also?

And if I have office 2007 and only Word 2003, which of the two commands should I run (I don't remember which Word/Office I installed first), the 11.0 or 12.0?

Thanks,

Kent

Hi

I am currently using Office 2003 (including Outlook 2003) and would like to just add 2007 Powerpoint application on the same computer.

Please advise on installation process if this is workable.

Thanks

I have installed Office 2003 and then Office 2007 on user workstation. Now the problem is that word etc other programs work properly but I have problems with file assosiations with excel 03 and 07. I want *.xls files open in the older excel because users have used to it.

I have changed file assosiations to point for excel2003. And still they opens in office 2007

And the reason why I want to have both office suites on couple of workstations is that that another client software needs access 07 and our company is going to update office 07 soo so some users can practise with newer suite.

I had Office 2003, and just installed Office 2010 Home & Student.... Without checking, the install removed Outlook 2003... I still have the Outlook 2003 install cd, so can i reinstall ? Will they co-exist ? I have the .pst file safe...

Any advice very much appreciated.

I know all you guys are on Vista and Windows 7, but I'm stuck back here on Windows XP SP3 and I added ran both those lines, and they still do the install stuff each time I switch between Office 2003 Professional and Office 2007 Enterprise using Word on each.  Anything else I need to do?

Hi.

I am just installing Outlook 2007 i have 2003 office but i really need to install  when i tried to do my laptop battery down and that shut down thats why my  setup not work completlywhen i tried to satrt again he start showing error and send me an error map123.dll that filecorrupt and missingi found that file and copy to c:windows\system  but no change still same issue

what am i suppose to  do...

For Windows 7 64-bit and Office 2010 in combination with Office 2003, the following easy procedure will work:

1. run cmd.exe as an administrator

2. reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

3. reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

4. reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Powerpoint\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

Note: Access 2003 / Access 2010 can not be fixed this way. There is no known solution for Access.

Stephan

I use Office 4.3, Office 97 and Office 2003 all installed on the same computer without any problem at all. The reason I have these 3 versions is that I have MS Access databases in all versions and I absolutely refuse to convert them. And furthermore, I do not install them in any particular order whatsoever - but what I do is install each version of Office in its own folder - e.g. C:\MS Office 4.3, C:\Program Files\MS Office 97, and C:\Program Files\ MS Office 2003. I intend to stick with this set-up when I next install Office 2010. One thing to bear in mind, though, is that you HAVE to decide which version of Outlook to use and then keep that version and do not install any other version. Also, if you have issues with Access 97, it means that you have to upgrade your Microsoft Jet engine.

Hi - i don't know if you are still running this blog - but I have a question. I am running 03 and 07 on same computer. When I am using Excel it no longer allows me to link between 2 seperate workbooks. Is there an option I need to click on 03 to make this do'able? In the preferences or something?

hi david! i need to install Trados 7. is it compatible with office 2007? BTW, is office 2007 the same as Vista?

thanks

lau

Hi,

I am having excel 2003 & 2007 both. If I open one excel 2003 file & then try opening any excel 2007 file, the 2007 excel try opening in 2003 but as junk carecters.

any one knows the reason & soln.

...hello=)

...i just want to know if it is okay to install a  ms office 2003 even if ms office 2007 is already running in a system??

...anyone could help???

..thanks in advance

-friendship

Hi David

Appreciate the time you give to answering questions

I have a Office 2000 installed. I want to keep this and use it as my main MS product especially as it links up with my work computer and some macros there . However I need to install Office Pro 2010 for occasional use of a macro within excel.

Rather than installing it on the same system would it be easier (and less likely to produce conflicts) if I install it on the same pc but under a different user? (I'm running on XP Pro r.3)

Many thanks

Jack

Thanks for your reply David

I have bought a copy of Office Pro 2010 and installed it in the same User as Office 2000. By default I would like files with the suffix .xls to open with Office 2000 but Office 2010 has changed them to open with Office 2010.

I have gone into <explorer><tools><folder options><file types> Selected .xls <advanced> selected Open <edit> and then browsed to C:\P~File\|M~O~\Office\excel.exe being the exe file for Office 2000.

It works but when I try to open a file called jack straw.xls (note space) in the folder C:\My Documents Excel 2000 opens and then tells me it cannot find the file C:\My.xls <ok> then it cannot find the file Documents.xls <ok> then it cannot find the file jack.xls

<> then straw.xls and then finally it opens the file

I'm running XP Pro sp3

Its not mission critical but it is a tad annoying. Is there something I can do to correct this?

Thanks

Jack

Hi David,

I'm attempting to have 2003 and 2010 coexist and having a difficult time of it on my w2k3 TS.

I have installed the following:

Office 03:

Outlook

Word

Excel

Access

PowerPoint

Office 2010:

Word

Excel

Access

PowerPoint

Publisher

Any suggestions?  Launching Outlook as a reg user I keep getting MS WORD 14.0 "An error occurred and this feature is no longer functioning properly.  Please run Setup and Select "Repair..." To restore this application."

I know all you guys are on Vista and Windows 7, but I'm stuck back here on Windows XP SP3 and I added ran both those lines, and they still do the install stuff each time I switch between Office 2003 Professional and Office 2007 Enterprise using Word on each.

Your style of writing is amazing. It’s hard to find knowledgeable people on this topic, but you sound like you know what you’re talking about! Thanks

Hi David.

This is my setup.  I'm also in the teaching environment.  I have 4 computer labs.  I have 48 stand alone computers, in my lab, running XP Pro and Office 2003.  At the beginning of 2011 we started using Office 2007 with the grade 10 learners using a different lab. Now that I have them for grade 11 next year I have to install Office 2007 onto my machines but should also have 2003 for the grade 12's

I did the NoReReg registry entry and it works fine since we are not using Outlook.  We are not on a domain… just a normal ethernet network.  

On each computer I have six profiles.  The Administrator, an exam profile which is linked to the server, 2 x gr.11 profiles and 2 x gr.12 profiles.  I have two groups of each.  

My issue is that I would like the different profiles to automatically use the different office versions.  For instance: When a grade 11 learner opens a document, the profile must know to use Office 2007 applications.  When a grade 12 learner opens a document, the profile must know to use Office 2003.

I tried to use the ‘Open with’ option, but it cascades through to the other profiles and then the grade 11 profile opens documents using Office 2003.

Is there a way to get pass this problem?  Does this even make sense?

Thanks

Martin

Mr. David,

i have removed ms office 2003, i want to install ms office 2007, but problem is that i had office 2003 orignal ver in laptop,

please inform me how i install 2007?

thanks

Thanks this was helpful

Hello just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The text in your post seem to be running off the screen in Opera. I'm not sure if this is a format issue or something to do with browser compatibility but I thought I'd post to let you know. The design and style look great though! Hope you get the issue fixed soon. Many thanks

hi David,

now i installed office 2007 on a machine with 2003, the outlook disappeared so can i retrieve it back ??? with the same configuration???????????????????

thanks a lot

I have Office 2003 and like it, but find use for 2007.

If I put in its own patrician, can I place a short cut on the desk top and access it without causes any access problems for 2003?