We installed 365 on my wife's machine strictly to resolve an Outlook 2010 problem with intention to later, but not yet, remove Office 2010. At the moment she's using Word and Excel 2010.



However, 365 changed the default Word from 2010 to 2016. If you visit 'Change default programs' instead of there being Word '10 and '16 there are 2 instances of Word '16 thus disabling the ability to change the Word/Excel default back to 2010. The same condition hold true for at least Excel. At that point I was too annoyed to further investigate.

Since the components were installed from the MS website I haven't even looked at uninstall to see if, as with previous versions, you could remove individual modules since I'm concerned you would have to first do something on their website.

I'm also concerned that if I make an incorrect move in this regard the process will not correctly revert her Office 2010 to its previous condition and I'll end up having to reinstall Office '10 (without Outlook).

Is my current problem a known condition, bug or whatever? Is there a 'proper' way of fixing the problem?

Mark

Office 2016 will run alongside Office 2010 and Outlook 2010 and 2016 can use the same data file (but not at the same time). Office 2016 grabbing the default is something you will have to live with for even if you repair Office 2010 making it the default, the next update will change it back again. This does not mean you cannot use the applications of Office 2010. See http://www.gmayor.com/Toolbars_in_word_2007.htm which will explain how to get the two versions of Word to play nicely together.

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The link doesn't seem to address my problem--it has to do with differing versions and their ribbons: 'Use Word 2000/3 Toolbars in Word 2007/2010/2013'?