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Getting Office to play nice
OK, so this is seriously stumping me.
I like Microsoft Office 2000... in my opinion it's the best one, and all the newer ones just add more bloat and less useful features.
But I know professors at the university require the students to use Office 2007... probably beause they're being paid off by Microsoft, or they like the Ribbon, or something.
Well either way, I'm trying to figure out how to have Office 2000 and Office 2007 side-by-side so that I could use both (not necessarily at once), but I want the ability to use both.
Well here's what's stumping me... I can install 2000 first, then tell 2007 to keep my older version, but if I open 2007 first, then 2000 pops up that "configure" menu like it needs to repair itself. And then if I open 2007 after 2000, it says it's installing features... and that process goes on and on and on after I open the other version. Same with PowerPoint, Excel, etc.
Has anybody figured out a way to *successfully* install both Office versions so they stop conflicting with each other? I know the university's public computers have both 2003 and 2007, and those seem to play nice... so why is 2000 any different? I know I could use Windows XP Mode, but that just makes it take longer to startup and eats my resources more than the super-bloated 2007 suite... so I'm kinda against doing it.