Upgrading Acrobat without messing up Word

[Jonathan West]

>
> Thanks for the details. As a follow-up, someone on another list stated
> that, "the general advice with Acrobat is to make sure the previous
> version is completely uninstalled" before upgrading. That sounds kind of
> counter-intuitive -- any thoughts on this?
>

That at least ought to ensure that PDFMaker is uninstalled along with
the rest of Acrobat. (Make sure Word isn't open when you do the
uninstall)

I was thinking of recommending an uninstall myself. I was held back by
the possibility that your Acrobat 8 disk is the upgrade version. If
you uninstall first, I believe you will need to have your Acrobat 6
disk available when you install Acrobat 8, in order to confirm that
you really are upgrading. That's fine if you happen to have the disk
to hand.

Regards
Jonathan West