Due to some outdated vendor software that requires Word 2010 only, we have had to keep word 2010 but upgrade the rest of office to 2013.

This becomes interesting each time I apply monthly patches to these PCs.  They revert to word 2013 instead of staying word 2010 and the only way to change it over is to manually start word 2010.

What gives, if I have installed office 2013 with the word option turned off, why is office constantly trying to change the default?

thanks

Hi Dennis,

I am poor at English, and I'd like to confirm:
Have you both Word 2010 and Word 2013 installed in your PCs? And installed Word 2013 after Word 2010?
If so, when cliking/double-clicing *.doc/*.docx, it's inevitable for Word 2013 to start, instead of 2010.

Please refer to the article.
Information about how to use Office 2013 suites and programs (MSI deployment) on a computer that is running another version of Office

Regards,

• Edited by Ashidacchi 6 hours 18 minutes ago