Word cannot be found on the machine

[Former Community Member]

I am getting this strange error when I try to import a Word file into LiveCycle Designer CS: Word (XP or higher) cannot be found on the machine. I am running LiveCycle Designer CS on a Dell Inspiron with Windows Vista (yuck) and Office 2007. Has anyone else gotten this message? Is there a known solution? BTW I do have Word installed, and I can open the file I'm trying to import in Word.

[Former Community Member]

The version of Designer that you have does not support Office 2007. The next release of the product will support Office 2007.

[Geezergaimr]

I have Office 2010 on a Windows 7 computer. I am trying to import a Word document into Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES2. I still get the " Word (XP or higher) cannot be found on the machine" error.

Is there any work-around for this? Any solutions?

[radzmar]

As Word 2010 is newer than ES2, ES2 does not recognize these version of Word.

You can fix this manually.

Check this solutions:

http://blogs.adobe.com/dmcmahon/2012/09/16/livecycle-designer-es2-word-version-xp-or-onwards-could-n...

or

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3983628

[Former Community Member]

That explains it - thanks! I am able to create a PDF file from the Word document and then create the form from the PDF file. It's an extra step, but it works.

[Former Community Member]

Does anyone know if the version of Life Cycle Designer that would come with Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro Extended would support importing Word 97 documents/forms?

[Former Community Member]

Yes it does.

[Former Community Member]

So are you saying that I need to downgrade my Office 2007 back to Office 2003 if I have Adobe Professional/designer 8.0 version or upgrade my adobe Pro/designer to 9.0 and leave office 2007? I have tried to save my word docs as a 97/2003 version and it still doesn't work. Thanks for the help.