Windows 10 and microsoft Office Anomalies
 

I bought a new Acer Windows 10 desktop computer (February 2019). It came
with a trial version of Office 365. I uninstalled it with Add/Remove
Programs before I activated it. Next, I downloaded and ran the Microsoft
tool that removes all remnants of all versions of Office. Then I installed
Office 2003. I have used this version for years. But programs like ABBYY
Finereader 14 (The latest) and others launch the Office 365 version of Word
when asked to send to a Word document. If Word 2003 is already running when
ABBYY Finereader is told to send to a Word document it sends to Word 2003.

Is Office 365 hiding on my computer somewhere? I can’t find it in the usual
places.

I looked in the registry at:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer - to see what version it is mapped
to. It is set to: WordApplication.11. This is correct for Office 2003.

How can I get all this untangled?

- David Harper

Windows 10 and microsoft Office Anomalies
 

David Harper wrote:

I bought a new Acer Windows 10 desktop computer (February 2019). It came
with a trial version of Office 365. I uninstalled it with Add/Remove
Programs before I activated it. Next, I downloaded and ran the Microsoft
tool that removes all remnants of all versions of Office. Then I installed
Office 2003. I have used this version for years. But programs like ABBYY
Finereader 14 (The latest) and others launch the Office 365 version of Word
when asked to send to a Word document. If Word 2003 is already running when
ABBYY Finereader is told to send to a Word document it sends to Word 2003.

Is Office 365 hiding on my computer somewhere? I can¢t find it in the usual
places.

I looked in the registry at:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Word.Application\CurVer - to see what version it is mapped
to. It is set to: WordApplication.11. This is correct for Office 2003.

How can I get all this untangled?

- David Harper

My guess is the filetype association still points at the old and now
gone Office 365 installation. During installation a logfile is created
to know what to remove when later uninstalled. That is, the install log
is also the uninstall log. That file only contains the changes made by
the installation, not what the user might change later, the OS assigns
for filetype associations, or what other programs change. The logfile
is created only during installation and not affected by what users or
other programs, even the OS, might change later.

If Finereader is attempting to open a .doc file (.docx won't be
supported; see note), you could use Windows/File Explorer to right-click
on the .doc file (you might have to Shift+rightClick), select Open With
from the context menu, and browse to the msword.exe file to use Word
2003 to open the .doc file (if Word 2003 isn't already listed in the
programs list). Remember to check the box to remember your choice of
handler (program) to associate with that filetype. You want .doc files
to get associated with the Word 2003 handler.

Note: You can add .docx support by installing the Office Compatibility
Pack.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/...ility-pack-sp3