Installing Access 2003 with Office 2010 already installed

[lestelle]

I have all of Office 2010 installed and everything works. But now I need to run an old Access 2003 application that chokes with Access 2010 in place. Can I install my older version of Access (I have Office 2003 on disk but not on my computer) without uninstalling Access 2010 or Office 2010. I want to have both versions of Access on my machine. Please help.

[TheShabz]

Multiple versions of Office do not play well with eachother. What I do is install the secondary version on a virtualized desktop.

[pbaldy]

I also use VM's, but I've got a couple of PC's with multiple versions (2000 and 2007 in my case), and they work fine. Historically though, the versions were supposed to be installed in order (in your case, 2003 first):

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2121447

If you want them both, you're probably best off uninstalling 2010, then installing them in order.