Office 2003 installation error: "Microsoft Office 2003 requires Windows 2000 with Service...?

It sounds like a headache. How long has it been since you installed Office 2007? Have you installed any other new software? The simplest and quickest do it yourself thing you could try would be to roll back your system to a previous configuration. For instance, if everything was working great on April 8, but you started having problems on April 9 try restoring your system back to it's April 8 configuration.

Here's how:

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1. Click Start, and then click Help and Support.

2. A box will pop up. Under Pick a Task, click Undo changes to your computer with System Restore.

3. Follow the instructions. Like I said above, pick the most recent date that the computer was working good when you see the calendar screen. The system will need to restart.

4. Test Office out and see if your problem is fixed.

If that doesn't fix the problem you can undo the System Restore. Here's how:

1. Click Start, and then click Help and Support.

2. Click Undo my last restoration

3. Let it undo the changes and restart the system

Oh I probably know why. You probably installed both in the same directory, thus having the Office 2007 files overwrited with the Office 2003 files, which messed the folder up. I would recommend you to uninstall (Only if you have the CD key valid for another use), reboot your computer so you don't have signs of MS Office, go to Start>Run> and type in %temp%, delete everything on there. After having that done, reinstall Office 2003 and it SHOULD work. If not, feel free to email me or edit your question with what happened next. I will check back to see if you've posted and additional details (if it worked, if not, etc..)

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Look for a fix here:

Microsoft updated the advisory on Friday evening and included links to four downloadable updates that would unblock the file formats. One update was provided for each of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and CorelDraw file types.

The downloadable updates should prove to be much easier to implement than a manual registry fix, details of which were retained in the updated advisory.

The software giant also provided four downloadable updates to reblock the file formats.

Shaffner said: "For IT administrators, we recommend that they use the [registry] fix that was there before. For end users, if they frequently use the older formats, this [the downloadable update] is the way." He suggested that if users did not frequently use the older formats, they should apply the update.

David LeBlanc, a senior software development engineer in the Microsoft Office group, added further details to Microsoft's change of direction.

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,3929...

I will suggest getting a Registry Cleaner software. After you've done this, run it and it will clear all entries that you have uninstalled among other things. I believe that when you uninstall any piece of software it will leave an entry in the registry. The registry must stay as clean as possible without any invalid entries among other errors that might generated by other factors.

hmm maybe you can download

a portable Microsoft Word 2003

in this way you can run them both.