I have Office 2003 installed, and need to install MSAccess 2000 urbanpossum 13.08.2006 02:22:02 i own Office Premium with Access 2000. Currently, I run Office 2003, no Access. Now I want to use Access, but when I try to custom install only Access from the 2000 disk, after a long while, the "Installing Microsoft Office 2000" window installation process displays an uninformative error (the text is along the lines of "Installation failed - encountered an error." It seems that this should be do-able. Any solutions? Diane

Re: I have Office 2003 installed, and need to install MSAccess 2000 "Mark Vanderslice" <mvanders[ at ]state.pa.us> 24.08.2006 18:47:58 We have both A2k and A2k3 on some of our PCs. You may have to completely uninstall Office 2k3, then reinstall Office/Access 2k, then reinstall Office 2k3. The 2k3 install should detect the earlier version and ask if you want to upgrade or keep. Not sure if the 2k3 install defaults this way or if you have to enter it, but we made sure 2k3 components install to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11 and 2k install is in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office Nothing's ever guaranteed with MS installs, but it works for us. Worst case, uninstall everything, reinstall Office 2k3, and call Microsoft. :D "urbanpossum" <urbanpossum[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:5438D090-E16D-4228-A368-291992C94CE6[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > i own Office Premium with Access 2000. Currently, I run Office 2003, no > Access. Now I want to use Access, but when I try to custom install only > Access from the 2000 disk, after a long while, the "Installing Microsoft > Office 2000" window installation process displays an uninformative error (the > text is along the lines of "Installation failed - encountered an error." > > It seems that this should be do-able. Any solutions? > > Diane

Re: I have Office 2003 installed, and need to install MSAccess 2000 "Douglas J. Steele" <NOSPAM_djsteele[ at ]NOSPAM_canada.com> 24.08.2006 21:41:09 You should haven't to uninstall the existing version. Just make sure you install each version into a separate folder. -- Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP http://I.Am/DougSteele (no private e-mails, please) "Mark Vanderslice" <mvanders[ at ]state.pa.us> wrote in message news:uzzrS36xGHA.3400[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > We have both A2k and A2k3 on some of our PCs. You may have to completely > uninstall Office 2k3, then reinstall Office/Access 2k, then reinstall > Office > 2k3. The 2k3 install should detect the earlier version and ask if you want > to upgrade or keep. Not sure if the 2k3 install defaults this way or if > you > have to enter it, but we made sure 2k3 components install to > > C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11 > > and 2k install is in > > C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office > > Nothing's ever guaranteed with MS installs, but it works for us. Worst > case, > uninstall everything, reinstall Office 2k3, and call Microsoft. :D > > "urbanpossum" <urbanpossum[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:5438D090-E16D-4228-A368-291992C94CE6[ at ]microsoft.com... >> i own Office Premium with Access 2000. Currently, I run Office 2003, no >> Access. Now I want to use Access, but when I try to custom install only >> Access from the 2000 disk, after a long while, the "Installing Microsoft >> Office 2000" window installation process displays an uninformative error > (the >> text is along the lines of "Installation failed - encountered an error." >> >> It seems that this should be do-able. Any solutions? >> >> Diane > >