[Bert Coules[_3_]]

Well, it's not often I can answer one of my own questions, but this time I
can. Maybe this might be useful to someone, somewhere, who knows?

Word 2000 *can* be run under Windows 7, with no problems that I can so far
see. Win7 does have a "Run" option, well hidden, and entering and running
Winword /r does indeed register the program and unlock it.

Bert