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Old 08-10-2007   #6 (permalink)
Peter Foldes


 
 

Re: Vista Home Premium and Office 2007

It does work For Office 2007. Just use it. Has not been updated for 2007 yet

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"SouthernDancer23" <SouthernDancer23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:F2DE6B3C-C686-44BE-A144-5D65F9CE62EE@microsoft.com...
> Thank you for the advice, however, the ReadMe files for that application say
> that it will not work for Office 2007.
>
> Theresa
>
> "Peter Foldes" wrote:
>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
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>> Peter
>>
>> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
>> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>>
>> "SouthernDancer23" <SouthernDancer23@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:87C8BBC6-A206-4E8E-9CFF-0276E63BF7D2@microsoft.com...
>> > Hello! I've posted the following under the Office forum but haven't received
>> > any answers there soooooo...I'm trying it here because I actually think it's
>> > more of an issue with Vista than with Office:
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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 thought 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. On
>> > advice from another forum, I tried uninstalling both Office 2000 and Office
>> > 2007 and then only reinstalling Office 2007, however, I'm still experiencing
>> > the same problems (except NOW Outlook is ALSO running the installer at each
>> > initiation). If there's a patch or, at the very least, a tech article that
>> > tells how to SOLVE 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!
>> >

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