All the issues I mentioned above are solved with this. Granted it's far from perfect application level virtualization, but it allows me to do what I need. I also installed SmartIndenter and MZTools in the VM, and those both show up in the VBE for the apps when I launch it. The Windows XP mode apps all run on the virtual machine, so they are segregated from my host operating system which makes this possible. I've been able to have Excel 2010 圆4 open and running on my laptop, and I was able to successfully launch Excel 2003, Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 (32 bit) all together. Here's a shot out of my start menu of the applications I installed in the Windows XP Mode VM: It IS a virtual machine, but it allows you to run an app installed in the VM as a program from the host (Windows 7) desktop. I really wanted to run it side by side with Office 20, but I couldn't.īut then, in a discussion with one of my staff yesterday, we ended up chatting about Windows XP mode in Windows 7.

So when I installed Office 圆4, I was a little disappointed. I can't flip back and forth between the app and my presentation easily, my presenter mouse doesn't work in the VMâ€¦ it just doesn't work. I could use a full blown virtual machine, but the problem here is that I find it inconvenient when trying to teach. My challenge with this is that I teach courses and like (need) to have multiple versions of Office installed so that I can teach in the appropriate versions. This means Visio, Project, Office 2007, Office 2003, etcâ€¦ To install Office 圆4 you must uninstall any 32bit version of Office programs first. One challenge I did face though was that you cannot run Office 圆4 on the same machine as Office x86 (32 bit). Despite my initial intimidation here however, some good friends helped me out and I was up and running within a few hours, and I know believe I understand how to migrate the rest of my code easily. The most notable parts there were that I had to convert a bunch of 32bit API calls in my VBA to 64bit compliant calls while preserving 32bit compatibility for the other machines in my office.

My main reason for doing this was that I wanted to make use of the RAM in my machine with PowerPivot, but it certainly didn't come without a bit of pain. I recently migrated to the 64bit edition of Microsoft Office 2010.

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