Microsoft Word starts instead when you start Microsoft Word Viewer
Article ID: 166051
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Viewer
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q166051
SYMPTOMS
If you install Microsoft Word and Microsoft Word Viewer
97-2000 on the same computer, when you try to start Word Viewer, Word may be
started instead.
CAUSE
This problem may occur when you do any of the following:
- Click WordView.exe on the WordView folder.
- Click Start on the Windows taskbar, point
to Programs, and then click Microsoft Word
Viewer.
- Click a .doc file in Microsoft Internet Explorer when Word
is running.
RESOLUTION
To start Word Viewer 97-2000, follow these steps:
- Make sure that Word is not running. Also, make sure that
WordMail and Microsoft Outlook are not running (they run Word in the
background).
- Start Word Viewer. To do so, click Start,
point to Programs, and then click Microsoft Word
Viewer.
MORE INFORMATION
You can use the Microsoft Word 97-2000 Viewer to view
documents that were created in Microsoft Word 97, in Microsoft Word 2000, in
Microsoft Word 2002, and in Microsoft Office Word 2003.
REFERENCES
For additional information about Word Viewer 97-2000, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
165908
Description of the Microsoft Word 97-2000 Viewer
Additional query words: WV WD97 WD2000 WD2002 WD2003
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