I don't think the office toolbar is not automatically installed as part of Office 97. You must use the custom install and make sure that you select "Microsoft Office" or some such term. It did not seem obvious to me at the time that the term used to describe it meant that it was the Office desktop toolbar. I'm currently running both Office 95 and Office 97. I did this by installing Office 97 into a different directory. The default directory for Office 95 was C:\MSOFFICE, I believe while it is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office for Office 97. During the Office 97 install, it noticed that the older version was installed and asked if I wanted to remove it and I answered "no" and it left it alone but did change all the file associations from Office 95 applications to the Office 97 applications. However, for them working together ... I would not depend on it. I'm running into all kinds of problems during the switch-over. The major one, which is why both are installed on my computer, we have an Access database that is used by people who are still on Office 95. Office 97 requires that you convert the database before you can make changes to the design so I need to keep using Access 95 to make design changes until we can get everyone upgraded. Since I've got lots of Access data used by other applications like Word and Excel, I'm running into lots of problems with the newer versions getting called up instead of the old ones when I try to do certain things. It's a major pain. ---------- > From: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [PCSOFT] Office Upgrade > Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 8:55 AM > > I hope someone has the answer for me with this. I have about 30 PC's > that I need to upgrade with Office 97. I have a copy of the Office > Professional version, but the Air Force only has license for the Office > Standard version. So, to comply with regulations and all, I'm not putting > on Access 97, and the Bookshelf products (which is how I've been directed). > Here are my problems though...........When doing the install it makes you close > down the Office shortcut bar before starting the install, and after I'm done > with the install I can't seem to find it anymore, anywhere. Also, we are > running Office Professional 95, and installing Office Standard 97, so when I > click off Access 97, the previous version ends up deleted off totally, and we > still need the old version of Access......A) Can the older version of > Access seemlessly run with newer versions of Word, Excel & PowerPoint ???? > And 2) How can I make it so when I do this install it doesn't get deleted ????