The web page shows how to prevent Word 2003 from re-configuring the settings
applied by Word 2007. If you want to stop Word 2007 from reconfiguring Word
2003's settings you should make the changes to the Word 12 branch of the
registry.
Do you have Outlook 2007 installed? This will work with either Word version,
but it uses a subset of Word 12 as its editor by default. If Outlook is open
when you make the changes, it is likely to screw things up. If Word is open
clicking a doc file from Outlook will probably use the open version of Word.
Personally I would always open the required version of Word first, but it
should work if you prevent Word 12 from reconfiguring the shared registry
entries.
Note that the registry conflicts will mean that two versions of Word sharing
the same registry entries is always going to be a compromise and things may
not happen as you might expect. Re-read the notes near the start of the web
page.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site
http://word.mvps.org
BCP wrote:
Thank you Graham, I followed your very clear instructions to edit the
registry and then I restarted the machine and then ran Word 2003.
However, it seems to have made no difference to my problem.
When I go to Windows Explorer Tools Folder Options File Types
it looks no different from before, I go to Change and then Browse to
Program Files/Office 2003/office11\winword.exe and then click Open
and then OK, the File Types box then has "Doc file" for the extension
DOC instead of "Microsoft Office Word 97 - 2003 Document". If I then
click Close it saves that setting but the .doc file still opens in
Word 2007. Sorry.... am I doing something wrong?
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm which explains
the registry changes you will need to make, and then having run Word
2003, you can make the changes to the file association manually via
Windows Explorer Tools Folder Options File Types to open DOC
files with Word 2003 XLS with Excel 2003 etc.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
BCP wrote:
I'm using Win XP Home and had Office 2007 installed first on this
PC, but decided not to use this as I hated it and so installed
Office 2003 instead. I would like, if possible, to keep Office 2007
on the PC as well but mainly use office 2003.
At the moment I can run Word 2003 and open old .doc files from
within it and they open fine, but what I can't do is run Word 2003
by clicking .doc files in Windows Explorer, Word 2007 opens each
time. (The same happens with Excel 2003/2007 and .xls files).
I have tried changing the file association info in File Types, but
this looks as if it's all ok and should run Word 2003 when opening
the .doc file, but it doesn't - it always runs Word 2007. This is
really annoying and I really want to change it.
Thanks