[Macpartners] Can you install Office 2008 without updating Entourage?

[Patrick McNeal]

On Feb 12, 2008, at 4:04 PM, ShustakC_MIT wrote:

> Seeing how the standard version of Office 2008 does not include  
> Exchange capability, is it possible to install Office 2008 while  
> leaving the old version of Entourage intact and functional?

I've read reports that Office 2004 and Office 2008 can coexist on the  
same machine[1,2], but I've not tried it myself.  It would be a good  
idea to backup your user data before trying such a setup.

--Patrick

[1] http://tinyurl.com/2t9owr
[2] http://kb.iu.edu/data/aomb.html


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