Resolved Will Office 2003 & Office 2007 install/coexist on W7?

Hi,

I'm running W7 Pro 32 bit on my laptop and would like to know if Office 2003 & Office 2007 will install & coexist on W7 Pro 32 bit?

Thanks,

klxdrt

 

Hi kixdrt, Welcome to WindowsBBS I have upgraded my wife's comp to W10 and Office 2007 is working fine. 2003 support might be a problem but if you get the compatibility packs from MS Office they should work OK.

 

Dear Retired...

Thanks for your quick response. I'm running W7 Pro 32 bit not W10.
Currently I have Office 2003 Pro installed on this PC and want to Install Office 2007 Pro and run them side by side to see which version works best for my usage.

I've been told by several 'experts' that office 2007 is better & will runs moother on a W7 pc than Office 2003.

I don't have the time to experiment or spend hours troubleshooting. Can I install and run Office 2007 with Office 2003 already on my W7 PC?

Regards,

klxdrt

 

Steve,

Boy you guys a good & fast. I appreciate everything this forum has helped me with.

Too keep things simple, I was told Office 2007 was better than 2003 by several experts. Thought if I ran them side by side. I could actually compare them myself. Outlook is the basic reason for switching and I won't be using the same email source as I own several domain names..

Office 2003 was fine for yrs, then had a 500mb ssd installed in desktop, lots of updates were installed. Then when I installed Office 2003, started having problems with Outlook. Then got some W7 updates for my laptop, started having trouble with Outlook. My guess is, MS slipped something in an update that would nudge more W7 users move to W10.

Regards,

klxdrt

 

I don't see how you can do that because, for example, the executable for Word in both versions is winword.exe. Many filenames are the same and I think it would cause serious conflicts. I know you can have Excel 2003 and Word 2007 on the same machine. But I would not even try to have Word 2003 and Word 2007. If you want to do a comparison, install one on one computer and the other on another computer.

That said, I think you should forget about Office 2003. Support for Office 2003 ended in 2014. If you like 2003, you should have no problems with 2007. It is when you move into 2010 that many changes force a new learning curve.

 

Hi kixdrt, I realized you were running W7 - I was pointing out that Office 2007 was working OK in my wife's upgraded W10 comp. Having said that I seem to recollect that a member tried to run/install a newer/later version of Office together with an earlier version and ran into trouble as Bill has hinted. Arie Posted the MS info that it was necessary to uninstall the earlier version as they would not run together on the same drive. I will stand corrected if this is wrong as I'm going on memory. . Having used both versions - I would go for the newest version every time. I'm currently running Office 2013 in 2 of my comps with W10 OS. I tried the 2016 free trial and didn't find the need to upgrade at this point in time as 2013 does what I want.

 

Thanks for all the suggestions. I'm going to wait till I finish my move out of state. Too much going on now. And another W7 problem popped up
which I'll create a new post.

regards,

klxdrt