Using Prior Version of Word After Installing 2007 Beta

[brandie]

I am attempting to use my Office 2002 programs to work with documents until I
have fully tested the backward compatibility of the new Office 12 beta. I
have changed my file associations back to the files in the Office10
directory, rather than the Office12 directory and left all the old program
installed.

When I open a document off of our fileserver, it appears that the spaces in
the folder names are causing a fit for my old Office 2002 programs, something
that has never happened before this installation. I get an error message for
each space...
ie: for a file stored in Server/Human Resources/word.doc, I get the
following error message:

"Server/Human.doc cannot be found" and "Server/Resources/word.doc cannot be
found". Then the file opens.

This is happening both in Excel and Word, but only when I open with the
Office 2002 programs, not with the new beta programs.

HELP!

 

[TF]

Changing the file association is insufficient. You need to open WordXP for
it to reregister itself as the default Word. If that isn't working, you need
to manually reregister. See
--
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm

but you will need to put the full path to the correct version of Word in the
start line and add the /r switch.






:I am attempting to use my Office 2002 programs to work with documents until
I
: have fully tested the backward compatibility of the new Office 12 beta. I
: have changed my file associations back to the files in the Office10
: directory, rather than the Office12 directory and left all the old program
: installed.
:
: When I open a document off of our fileserver, it appears that the spaces
in
: the folder names are causing a fit for my old Office 2002 programs,
something
: that has never happened before this installation. I get an error message
for
: each space...
: ie: for a file stored in Server/Human Resources/word.doc, I get the
: following error message:
:
: "Server/Human.doc cannot be found" and "Server/Resources/word.doc cannot
be
: found". Then the file opens.
:
: This is happening both in Excel and Word, but only when I open with the
: Office 2002 programs, not with the new beta programs.
:
: HELP!

 

[brandie]

Thanks, that seems to have solved the problem for Word. I suppose I should
repost this question on the Excel section of the forums to see if there is a
similar fix for Excel? (The same procedure didn't seem to solve it there...)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For Excel, you can't use the /r switch, but you can use /regserver.