Can Office 365 and 2010 coexist?

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I already have Office/Microsoft 365 installed on one desktop and one laptop, but I have a second laptop that still has 2010. Does anyone have any experience with installing 365 and leaving 2010 installed on it as well? Here’s my reason: The Avery label add-in for 2010 cannot be installed on 365 and it is so much more useful than the label routine in 365 Word, for example. Were I to install 365 without uninstalling 2010 I would confine my use of 2010 to creating and printing labels. (For my purposes the former add-in is preferable to Avery’s Design and Print Online tool.)

Appreciate any advice.

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Not sure about 365 but in the past you could by installing to different folders Example Programs Files\Office 2010 not just Office. I don’t think you can have 2 versions of Outlook though.

Had a couple clients using Aladdin Envelopes and Labels which didn’t work well with Office 2016. On one machine I installed Office 2007 with Aladdin into a VM which worked for him. Another switched to Tools 4 Contacts and is very happy with it. http://www.tools4contacts.com/

Oh, and on another I installed Aladdin anyway and although the program is occasionally disabled by Office it does work. Just the icons are goofy and in a different location.

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Microsoft/Office 365 does not play nicely with others:

If you have a Microsoft 365 subscription or non-subscription version such as Office Home and Business 2019, 2016 or 2013, in most cases you can’t run these versions together on the same computer.

Install and use different versions of Office on the same PC

Click-to-Run is the technology used to install Microsoft 365 subscription and most versions of Office 2013 and newer. Windows Installer technology (MSI) was used to install the volume license editions of older versions of Office 2016 and older, such as Microsoft Office Professional Plus and Microsoft Office Standard.

You can’t install the same version of Office products that use two different installation technologies installed on the same computer.

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I am fed up with 365 pro which I was forced to install on a new laptop I had wished to transfer Office pro 2010+ from old laptop and was not allowed by Microsoft. the original disk for the OP 2010 pro+ has been mislaid, but I do have to hand the box disk and key for office home and business 2010. All I require now I am retired is Outlook, Word and Excel. can this access the 365 data I need access to?

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Office Home and Business 2010 included <span class=”kY2IgmnCmOGjharHErah”> Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint and OneNote.  Software such as Laplink PCMover could allow you to get your Office Pro from the old laptop, but lets just discuss 2010 Home and Business for the moment.</span>

Word and Excel in the 2010 versions support docx and can for the most part open modern Office 365 docx files, with limited issues mostly affecting collaboration features.  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/open-a-document-in-an-earlier-version-of-word-45c4dd2f-bf7b-4a0d-9ff2-7b2ff6b733f0

Outlook 2010 does not support “modern authentication.”  It might work fine with your email and calendar provider, if not maybe you could transition to Outlook (new) the windows store app version.  Also Office (with Outlook) permanent install versions 2013 , 2016 and 2019 can use modern authentication.

Note that removing Microsoft 365 may lose space on your Onedrive folder.

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