"SouthernDancer23" <SouthernDancer23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:21033BD8-528A-4BDC-9ACA-3AA9E7F7158A@microsoft.com...
>I just installed the Microsoft Office 2007 Small Business as an upgrade to
> Microsoft Office 2000 Premium on Windows Vista Home Premium.
>
> The installation seemed to go just fine, however, every time any office
> 2007
> application (except Outlook which just 'magically' stopped doing it) opens
> I
> get "please wait while Windows configures Office Small Business 2007..."
> Excel gives me an error about stdole32.tlb (for me it only says
> stdole32.tlb
> and an ok button. Nothing about not being registered).
>
> Tons of articles on-line say that having two versions of Office installed
> on
> Vista might be causing the problem...so.....I uninstalled Office 2000
> Premium
> and then ran the repair feature on the Office 2007 CD but the Office 2007
> programs are still throwing up the "please wait" windows. As this takes
> 3 -
> 5 minutes every single time I try to open one of these programs, it is
> driving me BONKERS! Once I get past this installer problem, the programs
> seem to work fine. In several articles, it was recommended to run the
> cleanup utilitiy, however, on that page in the Microsoft Knowledge base it
> plainly states to not use it with Office 2007.
>
> Also, when I go into Set Default Programs in the Control Panel, the only
> one
> of the new Office 2007 programs that shows up is Outlook so it's obvious
> that
> Windows doesn't 'think' that the other programs (the ones throwing up the
> installer) are, in fact, actually installed.
>
> I would do a clean install of Office 2007 but I purchased the upgrade so I
> have to have Office 2000 already installed for it to work. If there's a
> problem with upgrading, you'd think that Microsoft would have come out
> with
> some sort of patch or, at the very least, a tech article that SOLVES the
> problem but I can't seem to find one.
>
> If anyone knows of a way to fix this issue, I would GREATLY appreciate
> your
> response.
>
> THANKS!
>
> (I've also posted this on the Microsoft Office discussion because I'm not
> sure exactly whether the problem is an Office 2007 issue or a Vista issue)
You might want to try this question in one of the Office newsgroups.
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