PowerPoint XP or 2000 over Office 2003

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Hello,

we have a problem: our notebook are equipped with the full version of
Office 2003.
Now we need to deploy a tool that needs an installation of Office older
than Office 2003.
Actually it does not really need Office running, but just installed. In
particular it need the presence of Powerpoint XP or older: it does not
run with Powerpoint 2003.

Unfortunately it is not simple to have multiple installation of Office
on the same computer, but we really need.

Microsoft provides a recipe to install multiple version of Office,
starting from the oldest to the newer, but we already have Office 2003
and really cannot collect notebook abroad from people to uninstall
Office 2003, install XP, then again 2003.
It will cost a mountain of money.

Again all we need is PowerPoint XP or older over existing Office 2003.

Any idea?
Thanks
 
steff said:
Hello,

we have a problem: our notebook are equipped with the full version of
Office 2003.
Now we need to deploy a tool that needs an installation of Office older
than Office 2003.
Actually it does not really need Office running, but just installed. In
particular it need the presence of Powerpoint XP or older: it does not
run with Powerpoint 2003.

Unfortunately it is not simple to have multiple installation of Office
on the same computer, but we really need.

Microsoft provides a recipe to install multiple version of Office,
starting from the oldest to the newer, but we already have Office 2003
and really cannot collect notebook abroad from people to uninstall
Office 2003, install XP, then again 2003.
It will cost a mountain of money.

Again all we need is PowerPoint XP or older over existing Office 2003.

Any idea?
Thanks
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I move back and forth between PowerPoint 2000 and PowerPoint 2003 without
problems. Read this:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP051919551033.aspx
 
To make your 2003 version of PowerPoint presentations readable on earlier
version of PowerPoint and not loose any of the effects you have used, before
you create you presentation you need to click on Tools, Options, Edit, and
check mark the 3 items under Disable new features
 
Now we need to deploy a tool that needs an installation of Office older
than Office 2003.
Click to expand...

I seem to be reading this a bit differently from the rest ... if I'm mistaken,
say so and I'll crawl back into my cave.

As I read it, you have software you want to install. Its installer is looking
for an older version of PowerPoint, not finding it and refusing to install as a
result. You're reasonably certain that it'll work with PowerPoint 2003 if only
it would let itself be installed.

Does that sound about right?

It sounds like you need to fix the tool or find out what it's looking for and
supply it. It might just be looking for specific registry entries and/or
files.

The vendor should be able to tell you.

Failing that, have a look here:

http://www.sysinternals.com/SystemInformationUtilities.html

FileMon and RegMon should be able to monitor the installer and tell you what
specific files/registry entries it's seeking.
 
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