Office 2003 and Office 2000 on the same PC?

I am trying to assist a lady with her need for Excel, linking a graphic calculator to her PC, and transferring data from the calculator to the PC. That's another problem.

She has purchased MS Office and Teacher Edition 2003 ( she is a qualified teacher) and it can be used on non-commercial use on up to 3 home PC's. (says so on the box)

To help her out, I was thinking of installing it on my laptop, but I already have Office 2000 installed.

Questions as follows:

Can I install both, without problems, on the same hard drive (C)?
Should I uninstall Office 2000 and then install Office 2003?
What happens if I send an Office 2003 document (excel, Word, Outlook or Powerpoint) to someone using Office 2000, will they be able to read it?
Do I have to get them to download free (?) Office 2003 readers?
What happens if I want to delete Office 2003 and revert back to Office 2000?
Can I convert all Office 2003 documents back to Office 2000? I guess not.

Bazza

 

Office 2003 should automatically ask if you want to update an Office 2000 file to 2003 standards when you open it...Word, Excel, Publisher, etc., etc.
It's ok to run both versions, but the disk space they will consume will be HUGE.
I'm not sure 2000 will handle 2003 files.
I had both for a while and outside of the disk space required I didn't have any problem with that.
I uninstalled 2000 after I used 2003 and decided it was my favorite.
Read the entire EULA before you install 2003 Teacher Edition to make sure you aren't breaking some kind of legal agreement for use of the software on more than one computer because you will have to activate it and you know how Microsoft can be.

 

Thanks Toni (with an i ). I will read the EULA, but M$ says on the outside of the box that it can be used on 3 home PC's.
It says member of a household meeting any of the "above criteria", so guess I'll have to be a "home-schooled student".
Maybe I can qualify as a "part time"student.
As long as I have a genuine Office 2000 installed, I don't think this will upset M$ too much. Bazza

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Bazza, be careful my wife is a teacher with Office 2003 and Teacher edition and she allowed a fellow teacher to copy it and run it assuming the same. Well the horror stories I will spare you, suffice to say that both Teachers could not update either Office 2003 or Windows XP!!!!!!!! I finally straightened it all out, but the hassle was not worth it, if I remember correctly the problem was different IP address's that signaled MS. Hopefully she will not do same again, but she has a heart the size of Oz, so I know that Pop will have to clean-up the mess, gotta Love the Girl

 

Thanks for the warning about different IP addresses. I hadn't thought of that.

I guess MS are OK if they all come from the same school network. Think I will forget this idea. Thanks again. Bazza

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Microsoft Office Converters and Viewers

http://www.microsoft.com/office/000/viewers.asp

 

Thanks, for that link. Will add it to My Favouites. Bazza

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