I concur. I'm always very apprehensive about version upgrades, but,
reassured by Graham and Greg Maxey, I screwed my courage to the sticking
point quite unnecessarily. Aside from a *very* few unexpected changes in
Options settings, I found that I could open Word 2003 and resume work with a
minimum of interruption or distraction.
OTOH, if you want to install Word 2003 using the default settings, deleting
(or renaming) Normal.dot will get you a long way in that direction;
rebuilding the Word Data key will do most of the rest, and removing all
add-ins from Word's Startup folder (and the Office Startup folder) should
complete the job.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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