Re: Using Word XP while having installed Word 2007 Beta

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I have been using mainly 2007 for real work since November when Beta 1 came out. It was a bit of a challenge back then, but B2TR is rather stable.
Note though that I do NOT recommend to do this. I have had my fair share of data loss, crashes, etc etc due to this, but I was willing to deal with it...

Patrick Schmid
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"Fred Goldman" <FredGoldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:37AFB11D-300E-49E6-A852-4A020455E6D2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Are people really using the beda for real work? Is it that stable? Or do
people only use it oon a test machine?

I'll probably just uinstall it. I know it's going to drive me nuts to
right-click every time I want to open a document (especially since I usually
use the keyboard shortcuts).

"Cindy M." wrote:

> Hi =?Utf-8?B?RnJlZCBHb2xkbWFu?=,
>
> > When I click on documents with the .doc extension it automatically gets
> > opened with Word 2007 beta. I would like it to open with Word XP, because I
> > don't want to use a beta version for my "real" work. I sthere any way to do
> > this short of uninstalling the beta version?
> >
> > I've tried already doing Open with... and pointing it to Word XP, but to no
> > avail (yes I checked "always use this program to open this kind of file).
> >
> Since, oh, version 2000 the Office applications re-register themselves as the
> default when they run. So no, there's no way you can permanently set this
> without removing the later version.
>
> What I've done on the few machines where I have more than one version is to
> create an entry in the Right-click "Send to" menu for the "other" version.
> You'll find your personal "Send to" folder under your profile in "Documents
> and Settings". Just create a shortcut to the winword.exe for Word 2002 and
> rename it so that it's easily recognizable.
>
> Cindy Meister
> INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
> http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
> http://www.word.mvps.org
>
> This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
> reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)
>
>

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