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Installing Office 2013 64-bit along side Office 2003 32-bit?


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I am getting:

 

We can?t install the 64-bit version of Office because we found the following 32-bit programs on your PC: 

  • Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
  • Compatibility Pack for the 2007 Office system
Please uninstall all 32-bit Office programs, then retry installing 64-bit Office.  If you want to install 32-bit Office instead, please run the 32-bit setup.

Is there a way to force this?

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You cannot install multiple versions of Office, no. You must uninstall 2003 first.

Damn. I much prefer Office 2003 over 2007/2010/2013 but I want to install Outlook 2013.

 

I'll grab the 32-bit version of Office 2013.

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Damn. I much prefer Office 2003 over 2007/2010/2013 but I want to install Outlook 2013.

 

I'll grab the 32-bit version of Office 2013.

 

You still won't be able to install a new version of Office with an old version on, whether it's x64 or x86, it just won't work.

 

Can I ask what is keeping you on 2003? Support for it ends the very same day support ends for XP.

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Damn. I much prefer Office 2003 over 2007/2010/2013 but I want to install Outlook 2013.

 

I'll grab the 32-bit version of Office 2013.

 

Why? Because of the ribbon interface?

 

Office 2003 is clunky and out of date. It took a while getting used to the 2007 interface and now I vastly prefer it. I've upgraded to 2010 to 2013 as well.

 

A note of interest: when I installed 2013 it did NOT uninstall 2010!

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You still won't be able to install a new version of Office with an old version on, whether it's x64 or x86, it just won't work.

 

Can I ask what is keeping you on 2003? Support for it ends the very same day support ends for XP.

 

That's not true.  You can install multiple versions of Office side by side as long as they have the same bitness and you install them in order (i.e. 2003 first and then 2013).  This has always been supported by Microsoft.

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That's not true.  You can install multiple versions of Office side by side as long as they have the same bitness and you install them in order (i.e. 2003 first and then 2013).  This has always been supported by Microsoft.

Huh. Get out of town...

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No :p

Honestly thought that installing two versions of Office wasn't allowed. Usually, two versions of of one particular app don't play nice together.

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It's still recommended that you look to drop 2003 soon, though. It'll pose a major security threat before long.

No tar :)

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I'll add to the point that you can multiple version together.

 

It is recommended to use the 32-bit version of Office unless you specifically need the features of 64-bit, which is doubtful.  Mainly for Excel you get support for more cells, or something.  I can't remember.

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Damn. I much prefer Office 2003 over 2007/2010/2013 but I want to install Outlook 2013.

 

I'll grab the 32-bit version of Office 2013.

hey king, mind if I ask what it is about the newer version you don't like?

if it's the ribbon then there's plenty of ways to disable that and use menus like before

if it's something else maybe we can make some suggestions

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This forum has made me sign up for a Neowin account.

 

I have tried multiple times installing Office 2003, Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 2013 all in one partition and one operating system and it works fine. You just need to un-select Outlook from the older versions if you are planning to install them and you need to install from oldest to newest. You also need to un-select Sharepoint Workspace because as far as I can remember, it is available in Office 2007 and Office 2010. You need to make sure that you are installing all versions either in 32-bit or 64-bit but not different bitness or a mix and match of 32-bit and 64-bit Office.

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