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 |
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