Parallel Installation of Different Version of MS Office
Going through the different discussions and reading the forums I found that a lot of people wish to keep Office 2007 or office 2003 or office XP with parallel to office 2010. This is because a lot of new feature on office 2010 and they are feeling uneasy to adopt with the newer technology……the condition is like…they are not able to throw the old technology coz they are master of it and they need new technology but they are not able to adopt it completely. So the people wishes to keep both of them…
Here going through the different website I found the solution and trying to share on my blog.
To installing of both version of Office, Office 2010 and Office 2007 or even Office 2003 or Office XP side by side together in parallel, Office 2010 has to be installed different directory or folder, so that existing Office 2007 program files don’t get overwritten. To do so use the following trick to install Office 2010 in addition to Office 2007 so that both applications such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, OneNote, SharePoint and etc can be run simultaneously and concurrently.
1. Run Office 2010 installation wizard. Select Customize when prompted to choose the preferred type of Office 2010 installation of either “Upgrade” or “Customize”.
2. Click Browse and select another installation folder path for Office 2010 which is not the same with existing Office installation path. For example, C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 2010\.
3. The setup will install Office 2010 and retain Office 2007 and any other older versions of Office apps
Note: Once Office 2010 is installed, the default program for Office documents, spreadsheets, presentations and other files will be defaulted to Office 2010, but it can be changed manually in Control Panel. A simpler way is to re-run Office 2007 Setup.exe setup wizard, and allow it to repair Office 2007 installation.
Also note that although both Office 2010 and Office 2007 can exist parallel, Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010 apparently not. Only one version of Outlook can be installed at any time. Thus, Outlook 2007 will be uninstalled and leaving only Outlook 2010.
Also for those End-User who want to install Office 2010 without uninstalling the Office 2007, I do have a better solution. here you can download config.MSP for installing Office 2010 without uninstalling or removing Office 2007.
To use the config.MSP to install Office 2007 and keep Office 2007 side by side (not uninstalling Office 2007), copy the downloaded config.MSP to the folder that contains Setup.exe and other installation files for Office 2010, and the run the following command in that folder in an elevated command prompt window (or in Start Search or Run command box).
