Runing Both Office 2004 & 2008

[squatty]

I'm a bit hesitant to install Office 2008. I've read a lot of problems/issues with the new version. Is it possible to run 2004 and 2008 side by side? Meaning I have the ability to choose which version I work off at any time.

I'm assuming the 2008 installer will upgrade the 2004 version. I haven't tried the install yet, so don't know this for sure. If this is the case then how do you go about installing 2008 without upgrading 2004? Do I need a separate partition and then install 2008 there?

 

[Eidorian]

You can run them side by side. Keep in mind the installer for Office 2008 will want to remove previous versions of Office so just tell it not to.

I believe on my last lab Mac image I installed Office 2008 first and them just dragged 2004 onto the disk.

 

[TEG]

I use both side-by-side with little problem, save for the fact that Office 12 (2008) takes over the default application for Office Documents, and I can't seem to turn it off, so you have to right click on a document to open it in an Office 11 app.

TEG

 

[GSMiller]

I use both side-by-side with little problem, save for the fact that Office 12 (2008) takes over the default application for Office Documents, and I can't seem to turn it off, so you have to right click on a document to open it in an Office 11 app.

TEG

Yeah that's annoying. I played with 2008 a little bit when I first got it but have since gone back to 2004 but have not been able to change 2004 to the default.

 

[squatty]

Thanks for the reply. Just did the install and everything seems fine. Both 2004 and 2008 running fine.

 

[MacDawg]

Wish I had not spent the money on 2008

Woof, Woof – Dawg

 

[redwarrior]

Wish I had not spent the money on 2008

Woof, Woof – Dawg

Me too, except I got the full suite for windows about 6 months before I purchased my mac. doh

 

[bigrell486]

In my experience, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Office 2008.

I like it a lot more than 2004.

My only issue is that there is a little bit of formatting discrepancies when opening a docx document in 2007 that was saved with 2008.