I cannot check RH8 either but I was told that from RH7
onwards, you can upgrade Word without the uninstall/reinstall RH
routine.
The change of version only applies to RH for Word where you
have multiple versions of Word installed. In RH HTML it picks up
the only version or the last version used if you have more than
one.
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