Office 2003 / 2007 question

EddScott · 6 Oct 2009 at 10:34

I have a friend who has to upgrade his excel to 07 to be able to use a particular file for work. However, he wants to be able to retain Word 03.

When upgrading Excel, we have tried to tell the installer not to uninstall Excel but unistall all the others and only install Excel 07 making the others Not Available. When it goes to install it says theres a cab file missing SKU112.CAB and the install fails. This Cab file is an 03 file though.

If it comes to it we can install 07 complete but he doesn't want to because he hasn't really got time to re-learn Word.

meths · 6 Oct 2009 at 10:44

Can't you just install word and turn off the ribbon?

I thought I read somewhere ages ago that you could do this although I personally don't know why you'd want to.

Edit: Just did a quick google search. Seems there's an add-on called Toolbar Toggle that installs the 2003 toolbar in place of the ribbon.

Don't know how good it is though.

Simian · 6 Oct 2009 at 13:46

Costs $19.99 for a 'Single User Licence'... I'd stick with the Ribbon

feriso · 6 Oct 2009 at 15:45

What about these which are free

http://in.geocities.com/shahshaileshs/menuaddins.htm

and

http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/ <- click top one for free private use

Job done

theheyes · 6 Oct 2009 at 16:43

If it is just a docx file you can download a conversion pack for Office 2003 which will open them.

As for having to "re-learn" Word he really should try it - I bet it could have easily gotten to grips with it in the time he's had you faffing around.

meths · 6 Oct 2009 at 17:01

Simian said:
Costs $19.99 for a 'Single User Licence'... I'd stick with the Ribbon

Yeah I noticed that on the site.

New things must really scare some people.

The docx convertor mentioned above is the best bet. I installed that on my work PC that's still running Office 2003 and you don't even need administrator priviliges to put it on.