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MacChap@officeformac.com - 31 Jan 2008 23:21 GMT

I have a full licence for Office 2004 and have purchased the student & teacher edition of Office 2008. I'm obviously entitled to have them both on the same Mac ...... is this possible & if so how? reluctant to start an installation until I know how best to proceed.

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Corentin Cras-Méneur - 31 Jan 2008 23:34 GMT

> I have a full licence for Office 2004 and have purchased the student
> & teacher edition of Office 2008. I'm obviously entitled to have
> them both on the same Mac ...... is this possible & if so how?
> reluctant to start an installation until I know how best to proceed.

you can keep both, though I woudl not use both Entourage 2004 and 2008,
and there is a risk that preferences will not behave well since some of
them might be shared between the two versions.

I kept Word and Excel 2004 on my Mac.

Corentin

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MacChap@officeformac.com - 31 Jan 2008 23:54 GMT

Thanks! Presumably it's obvious what I need to do during the installation of 2008? Any potential gotchas?

Chris

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JE McGimpsey - 01 Feb 2008 00:16 GMT

> Thanks! Presumably it's obvious what I need to do during the installation of
> 2008? Any potential gotchas?<br>

Just choose not to delete Office 2004 when given the option.

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Diane Ross - 01 Feb 2008 02:39 GMT

On 1/31/08 3:54 PM, in article ee8b906.1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

> Thanks! Presumably it's obvious what I need to do during the installation of
> 2008? Any potential gotchas?

If you ever have to re-install after a drive crash, be sure to install 2004
BEFORE 2008. The 2008 installer moves old Office fonts and replaces them
with new and improved fonts for 2008.

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DVC@officeformac.com - 28 Apr 2008 18:14 GMT

> Just choose not to delete Office 2004 when given the option.

What about keeping .X?

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Michel Bintener - 28 Apr 2008 18:25 GMT

See my answer in the Word group.

On 28/04/08 19:14, in article ee8b906.4@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

>> Just choose not to delete Office 2004 when given the option.
>
> What about keeping .X?

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Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / April 2008

Install Office 2008 and keep Office 2004