Word 2002 and Office Word 2007

[andreaokrusko]

Some of my Word 2002 doc. files (that contain tables) won't convert into my
new 2007 Word program so I want to run them both. However, when I use Word
2002, the 2007 uninstalls and vice versa. Is there anyway to keep them both
running at the same time?

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

When running Word 2003 & 2007 on the same setup, you can use the norereg
key, which is described here:

http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com/?s=norereg

I don't know if the norereg registry key works for Word 2002, but it's worth
a try.

Other than that, prior to learning about the norereg key, the only way I was
able to tame that sort of behavior was to always run the less important
version of Word (i.e., for which I didn't need any personalized settings)
by starting Word with the /a switch (winword.exe /a). Or... run it on a
virtual machine.