Microsoft Office 2007 question

jill36_2

I have Microsoft Office 2003 now on my computer and would like to install Microsoft Office 2007. (Daughter has a 2 user disc)

Can I keep both programmes while I learn/get use to the 2007 version?

Thanks

Trinitrotoluene

I would advise against it. Do a fresh installation of office 2007. I have seen multiple problems when multiple problems of office are installed.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/interactive-word-2003-to-word-2007-command-reference-guide-HA010074432.aspx

Click on "Start the guide". You click where it was in 2003 and it will tell you where it is in Office 2007.

LucianH

My guess is that the answer is no but I'll leave it to others to confirm.

Just one observation, and my personal opinion, unless you need some of the new features (eg, greater than 64K rows and better conditional formatting in excel) and you're used to the 2003 interface, I wouldn't change. There's much talk on the interwebbything how the 2007 (and 2010) interface reduces productivity. I use 2003 at home and 2007 at work and I agree with this. It takes more clicks and is less customisable in 2007. The ribbons also take up valuable screen space (especially noticeable in laptops). However, I may be being a luddite and for those that only have used 2007 may swear by it (but do they know any better?)!

(By the way, there are add-ins to revert back to the previous toolbars but I've not tried them so no idea how good they are)