Running Office 2007 & 2003

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Justin

Hi I need to run multiple versions of MS Office/PowerPoint on my PC,
Microsoft advises against it, but I need it for my clients. Problem is, I
want PowerPoint 2003 (and Excel & Word 2003) to be my default programs. But
no matter what I do, 2007 takes that over. When I assign 2003 applications
by going in and choseing them as the default, it still opens the
applications in 2007. The only work-around I've found is to change the name
of the .exe files in the 2003 version and then it will use them, but that
corrupts the software and it looses some functionality.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Justin
 
You should install PowerPoint 2003 before PowerPoint 2007. After installing
PowerPoint 2007, do the following:
1. Go to command prompt.
2. Change to Microsoft Office 2003 folder (usually, "C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11")
3. Execute "powerpnt /regserver".

This will make PowerPoint 2003 open all ppt files while PowerPoint 2007
opens the new formats - pptx, ppsx, pptm, ppsm, etc.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html
 
Thanks! I'll try it.

Justin


Chirag said:
You should install PowerPoint 2003 before PowerPoint 2007. After
installing PowerPoint 2007, do the following:
1. Go to command prompt.
2. Change to Microsoft Office 2003 folder (usually, "C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11")
3. Execute "powerpnt /regserver".

This will make PowerPoint 2003 open all ppt files while PowerPoint 2007
opens the new formats - pptx, ppsx, pptm, ppsm, etc.

- Chirag

PowerShow - View multiple PowerPoint slide shows simultaneously
http://officeone.mvps.org/powershow/powershow.html
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