Upgrading Acrobat without messing up Word

[Jonathan West]

On 30/11/2007, Dan Goldstein <DGoldstein at riverainmedical.com> wrote:
> Running Word 2003 under Windows XP Pro SP2. Acrobat 6.0.6 Standard
> currently installed, just received the upgrade for Acrobat 8 Standard.
> Has anyone seen this upgrade mess with Word settings? If so, how can
> this best be prevented or mitigated?

The key point is that Acrobat 8 doesn't use PDFMaker.dot. the PDFMaker
functinality is by means of a COM add-in. So do an install, and then
make sure that PDFMaker.dot is no longer loaded, and then close Word,
rename normal.dot and restart Word, knowing that old changes to it
made by Acrobat 6 are no longer present.

Regards
Jonathan West