[PRR]

Interesting. It detected a previous installation of Word, and asked
what I wanted to do so I just told it to leave it there (not install a
new version of Word), so all is well. I always thought that the Word
used in 2003 was in fact, Word 2002--not that it would make that big
of a difference to me, I'm sure the features aren't that different,
and no I don't use mail merge. Anyways, I'm sure I've installed Office
over pre-existing versions before, but don't recall seeing that
option. Oh well.


On Feb 24, 10:03*pm, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Whenever you install any version of Word/Office over a previous version,
your documents and settings are retained. Since you are upgrading, you
should be able to install Word 2003 over Word 2002 without any problem
(users who installed Office XP over an existing version of Works with Word
2002 found that Word was not replaced, which sometimes caused license key
issues later).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USAhttp://word.mvps.org