Re: Word Professional Won't Install Over Word Standard

Hi Bob,

Thanks so much for your prompt reply.

And the short answer is no, there isn't any reason that prevents the user
from removing the Standard edition. Except that they don't know that they
should do that. Should not the Office installer give them the heads up or
take care of it? Will that happen with Office/Word 2007?

But my larger problem is that since the installation of Word Pro is outside
the domain of my application, I need to be able deal with what I find on the
user's machine. (I guess it would be great if there were VSTO support in all
versions of Word 2003 & 2007. :>) So I tell the user to buy and install Word
Pro - and they do that - but it doesn't remove Word Standard first, then my
application crashes because it starts the wrong version. There must be a way
to identify the Word Pro version so that my app can start that one instead of
Word Standard. Any insights on this?

Of course, I can advise the user to uninstall Word Standard first, but I'm
shy about advising clients how to manage their Microsoft applications. Am I
too shy?

Best regards,

Snowcat

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi Snowcat,

Adding multiple Office editions of the same series (even if the same language) isn't recommended. There is a side effect you've run
into that complicates things in that the Word 2003 versions for Office Pro and Office standard varied in their support for some XML
features.

Is there any reason to not remove the Office 2003 standard edition at this point, then do a repair/reinstall of MS Office 2003
Professional Edition?

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<<"Snowcat" <Snowcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:842D1FA4-F965-487E-B77E-B0E7FED4EA97@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Terry,

Thanks for your response.

I have worked with the two users on this and found that:
-the installation of Office Professional - with Standard already there -
completes however when you look in the 'Add/Remove programs' list BOTH the
Standard and the Professional are listed. Also:
-in this situation when my application starts Word it starts the Standard one
-when the user 'Removes' (uninstalls) Word Standard then my application
starts the correct version of Word.

So in the situation where the user has multiple copies of Word, can my
application start the Professional version and if so how can I ensure that it
does not start the wrong one?

Thanks. >>
--

Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*



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