Search for the term “registry hack” on this web page and follow the directions. If you do this, you want to make the overall Microsoft System Files folder a trusted location with sub folders also being trusted. I actually use the same workgroup templates folder for each version and most of my startup add-in templates are stored in one of the versions and I use file shortcuts in the startup folders for the other versions. Then run an Office repair for the version you want as your primary version to get your file associations to work with that as a default. You need to set up the folders first and then upon each installation, go into the File Locations options and set the folders for that version. That's when I belatedly decided to Google 'Can I install two versions of Word on the same computer' and found a page where it said: And while I was waiting for it to stop I noticed a little pop up in the lower right corner of the screen saying something like 'Windows Installer needs to restart computer.' It took quite a while, but finally it did stop. So I just let it run, hoping that it would eventually stop clattering away. I was afraid to open the disk drive, out of fear that that might interrupt an attempted installation process and leave an unrecoverable mess on my hard drive. I'd been too distracted by just trying to find my way around in Windows 10 and Office 2010. That's when I realized that I had never actually ever gotten around to testing out the DVD drive on this refurbished PC. Then the hard drive light came on and the disk drive started grinding and rattling and sounding like it was grinding the CD down to a pile of dust. So I looked at File Explorer and clicked on a folder named 'Setup.' I popped the CD (or is it a DVD?) into the DVD drive, closed the drive and waited for something to happen.

So I dug around in my carboard box of old software and found Office 2003. I happened to notice that that old version of Word, which I had posted about here as Word 97, actually turned out to be Word 2003. So I decided to try installing the old Word version, the one with the macro that opens my task management files side-by-side in single Word window. I was encouraged by Purfleet's comment that older versions of Word could be run under Windows 10.

Should I start a new thread for this problem? Is it bad form to change the Title in the middle of a thread?

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