How can I disable Word 2007?

[Craig Harlan]

THE PROBLEM: I use Word 2003 instead of Word 2007 (for various reasons) but
also have Office 2007 installed and use other programs in that suite. This
morning, when I clicked on the Word 2003 document I've been working on, Word
2007 began installing itself (Word 2003 usually comes up no problem). I
immediately cancelled the installation but it installed itself anyway and now
clicking on any of my *.doc files brings up Word 2007 instead of Word 2003.
All my macros and Auto-Corrects are gone (to say nothing of the friendly blue
background that I need for my bad eyes but which Microsoft deleted from Word
2007).

WHAT I HAVE TRIED: I tried to unstall Word 2007 (my preferred solution) but
it seems I can't do that without uninstalling Office itself. I tried
associating .doc files with Word 2003 instead of 2007 but the file
association screen doesn't distinguish btwn the two Word programs.

I am absolutely dead in the water, unable to get at any of my files -- with
classes beginning in what seems like no time. Thank you for any help you can
give me.

 

[Scott M.]

Ok, relax. This is not the problem that you think it is. The first and
most immediate thing you can do is open Word 2003 directly and then open
your file from there. If you have both versions of MS Office installed on
your system, then you can open Word 2003 by browsing to: C:\Program
Files\Microsoft Office\Office11 and launching winword.exe.

If for some reason you can't find it there, just do a file search for
"winword.exe", it should find two of them for the two versions of Word that
you have installed, but double clicking the correct one will launch Word
2003.

Now that your immediate issue is resoved...You can uninstal just Word from
your Office 2007 installation by choosing the "Change"option in control
panel's Add/Remove programs dialog. When the "change" screen comes up,
choose "Add or remove features" and on the subsequent screen, click the
black down arrow on the icon next to Word and select "Not Available".

Now, you'll just have Word 2003.

-Scott

 

[Stefan Blom]

The article at http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm describes,
among other things, how you can prevent Word from reregistering every time
you switch between the two versions.