Outlook – How tonstall Outlook 2013 side-by-side with Outlook 2010

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Microsoft has just released Office 2013, and I need to be able run both Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 on the same machine in order to check the rendering of html emails. (I don't need to run both versions simultaneously, though.

When the preview version of Office 2013 was released, there were some postings about how to do this with the preview version (e.g. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/officeitpro/thread/8ee9542a-bbdf-4af0-8cd6-eb2fc46a2422), but it's not clear to me whether this works with the release version. (For example, what is the ClicktoRun version of Outlook?) I also saw another post which said that side-by-side installation of Outlook was not possible with the "packaged" version of Outlook, but was possible with the Office365 subscription version.

Any help would be much appreciated. –Jeff

Best Answer

UPDATE:

Not possible, see the following from MS Help text on the install screen:

    Outlook: Some things to consider
Before you install Outlook, you must remove any earlier version of Outlook, because two versions of Outlook can’t be on the same computer. If you want to keep an earlier version of Outlook, you must choose on the Installation Options tab to not install Microsoft Outlook 2013.

If you choose not to install Outlook 2013, the version of Outlook you kept won’t use Microsoft Word as its email editor. You’ll use the Outlook email editor instead and not be able to use the features in the Word email editor.

UPDATE DUE TO COMMENT:

In your position I would pick myself up a copy of Virtual PC or VMware and load Windows w/ a Copy of the old or new Outlook on it, depending on which one you only needed for testing.

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