Using ACT! 2007 with MS Word

ACT! 2007 currently doesn’t support Microsoft Office 2007. ACT! will not recognize Word 2007. This means if you are using ACT! 2007 and want to upgrade to the latest version of Office and you want to use Word as your word processor in ACT!, you will need to leave an older version of Word installed on your machine. In my case, I have Office 2007 installed (including Word 2007) and Word 2003 on my machine. Of course, make sure you have the proper licensing for both versions of Word.

So far, this seems to be working fine for me. I will post back if I run into any further issues. Hopefully, ACT! will release a patch to make it compatible with Office 2007 soon. I have my doubts though; it’s not like there wasn’t some advance notice that Office 2007 was coming.

If you don’t want to use MS Word, you can always use the built in ACT! word processor.