Pitfalls installing Word 07 over customized Word 02 ?

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James C. Butler - 29 Jan 2007 15:29 GMT

Running XP sp2, Office 2002 including Word 2002

Soon I will be installing Office 2007, incl Word 07. Still under XP sp2

My present Word is massively customized, entire keyboard, etc. Some changes
are stored in normal.dot (probably a mistake?). Most changes are stored in a
new template named abnormal.dot. I assume the new install will go right on
top of the existing Word.

How best to do it? What problems and pitfalls lurk ahead for me that you
experts can steer me clear of in advance.

TIA

Jim

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Cindy M. - 31 Jan 2007 19:08 GMT

Hi James,

> Running XP sp2, Office 2002 including Word 2002
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> How best to do it? What problems and pitfalls lurk ahead for me that you
> experts can steer me clear of in advance.

I'd rename your customized Normal.dot, as well, before installing. With the
changed file format, I've found it a good idea to use a "native" Normal.dot
with a new version of Word.

You may want to read up on the new Ribbon that replaces toolbars. Any
customizations you've done in that regard are all going to be under a single
Tab (Add-ins). There won't be any way to change this in the UI, even using
macros. If you want the same level of customization, you're going to need to
learn to customize the Ribbon. pschmid.net is a good place to get started.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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James C. Butler - 31 Jan 2007 20:04 GMT

Cindy--

Thanks for your super suggestions. The idea of renaming normal.dot makes
instant sense to me. I have been reading some about the Ribbon. I gather all
one can do is "dive in" and learn. Fortunately, most of my customization is
on the keyboard not the UI. I am very much "keycentric", having gone through
an Atex mainframe and XyWrite before ending up at Word--for the sake of
compatibility. But what I would give for a command line!

Thanks so much.

Jim

> Hi James,
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