Hi Otto

on this machine i have 2002 & 2003 .. on my other 97, 2000, 2002 ... all
work fine - the only thing i did was install them in order(oldest to newest)
and put them in separate directories.

I have had 2002 & 2003 open at the same time and the only problem (as Bob
has already said) was that when i opened the 2nd one (whichever) i got a
message about personal.xls being read only.
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Cheers
JulieD

"Otto Moehrbach" wrote in message
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Bob
Thanks for that information. I'll install 2003 and follow what you
did. Otto
"Bob Phillips" wrote in message
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Otto,

I don't have 202 and 2003, but I do have 97, 2000 and 2002 on my desktop.
I
have them all installed in 'Program Files\Microsoft Office', with
sub-directories of Office, Office 97, Office 10. The version that you
want
as your default should be installed last. I also have run all 3 at the
same
time, the only thing I get is a message that Personal.xls is already
open,
so it will open read-only.

Obviously, double-clicking an Excel file will open in the default, so in
the
others you need to drag-and-drop, or open via the menu.

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HTH

RP
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"Otto Moehrbach" wrote in message
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WinXP
I am helping an OP with a large project. He is 1000 miles away so
everything is long distance or email. I have Excel 2002, he has 2003.
This
has caused no problems throughout the project development until now.
One problem has cropped up that appears (just "appears" at this
point)
to be version related. I won't go into the details of the problem
because
I
haven't defined it sufficiently at this point.
I have a copy of 2003 that I installed once over my 2002, but I
elected
to revert back to the 2002 because of the Help changes and the fact that
comments in these newsgroups indicated that the benefits of 2003 over
2002
were not worth the Help hassle of 2003.
All that said, I want to install 2003 on my stand-alone computer
along
side my 2002 so that I can properly troubleshoot this one problem. I
know
that many of you have multiple versions installed so I know it can be
done.
I am asking for some guidance from those of you that have already
done
this so that I might avoid some of the pitfalls. For instance, should I
install 2003 in a folder outside of Program Files (where 2002 resides)?
Should I avoid running both at the same time?
Should I avoid saving my 2002 file under 2003 or should I make a copy of
it
under another name and save it under 2003?
Have you run into any "mines" with this that I should avoid stepping on?
I am aware of the file association problem and I can work with that.
Thanks for your help. Otto