Office 2003 and Office 2007 on the same computer

Although it might sound strange, some people need both versions of Microsoft's Office suite because of the many changes in some programs. Also, it seems there are still some compatibility issue. For example a document made in Office 2007, saved as .doc and opened with office 2003 might have some small differences which for some are annoying. Even more, if two or more ar working on the same project and don't have same version it gets quite frustrating.

This is the way to have them installed on the same machine. However I have tested it for Word, Excel and PowerPoint ONLY. The other might also work and... for sure, two versions of Outlook will definetly NOT work so watch out!

In my case, the computer already had Office 2007 installed. I've added 2003 edition in the same partition but in a different folder (C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office03). Choose custom installation so that I could choose only those three above.

After the succesful installation I had a .docx document-> right clicked -> open with and had Microsoft Word two time but with different icons. Opened it with 2003. No problems. Afterwards I selected 2007 edition and a setup window appeared and after a while it was gone. However, Word 2003 was not in the open with options and I could not use it to open it anymore.

Therefore the proper way is, after installing it (I did a repair so it's the same thing), don't open anything, hit 'windows key' + 'r' or select "Start" and "Run" and type

* reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

* reg add HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\word\Options /v NoReReg /t REG_DWORD /d 1

I entered only the second one, 12.0 that stands for Office 2007 because that was the one which cauzed trouble but in other cases might very well be the other way around.

Fact is, after this it worked without issues. My thanks go to David Overton.

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And again another warning: DO NOT INSTALL Outlook 2007 and 2003 on the same machine.

Fixing your dual boot problem in Vista or XP

So you have a computer with XP or Vista installed and you wanted to give linux a try. So you install a distribution, whichever you like. Most likely you end up with a new bootloader say GRUB or Lilo.

One common mistake amateurs do is that they think that by, later on, removing the linux partition they will get rid of the new bootloader. Well...wrong!

So, if you simply want you computer to boot up directly into Windows do the following:

If you have Windows XP:

- Boot from the Windows XP CD, and in the Recovery Console type "fdisk /mbr". Alternately you can just hit the repair button.

If you have Windows Vista:

- Boot from the Windows Vista DVD, click Repair you computer, then select Windows Vista and click Command Prompt. Then type: " bootrec.exe /fixmbr" hit enter and type "bootrec.exe /fixboot" and enter again. Wait a second, exit command prompt and restart computer.

Of course there are other methods:

-you can do this from within Linux

-you can get Super Grub Disk

LE: In addition, if you bootup in Vista and get this message: BOOTMGR is missing; press ctrl+alt+del to restart here is the fix: Again, enter the Vista installation dvd, click next, then click Repair my computer. Then you choose your operating system -> and here is another tip, if NO operating system click next anyway and then hit Repair Startup and voila..next time it boots into Windows

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