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by karen

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All of a sudden, word documents attached in my Windows Mail emails try opening up in Word 2007 instead of the usual Word 2003.

I have Word 2007 only as an expired trial version, and the word I am using is the good old 2003. When opening the attachments, the computer starts installing Word 2007, and I have to cancel that operation and can only open up the attachments from within my word 2003.

At the same time I have had problems with merging a document with an address list which suddenly the computer can no longer find.

Apparently something has happened so that word 2003 is no longer my primary word program.

If I try and repair the word 2003 as described under "Help", I will probably need to input my username and password when starting the office pack up again, where do I find them? Are they on my office 2003 installation CD?
Regards - Karen from Denmark

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by Former member

Go into "add and remove" and delete this word 2007 from your computer. When deleted you will need to go int the registry and delete anything that will relate to Word 2007 DO NOT DELETE WORD 2003.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.
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by thumbsup2

... and, even though you've uninstalled the trial version of it, you may need to reinstall 2003 to get the pointers (what program to start when you try to open a file) to point back at the 2003 version.

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