Thanks, that did it, and then I installed all the security patches since.
Pity that the disabled the automatic update that's available for the same
Office 2000 programs but when run on Vista...
Cheers
James
"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ujKkHRZHIHA.3400@xxxxxx
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> Try updating Office 2000 in a chronological order, SP1a, SP2 and
> then SP3. The Service Pack manual downloads are found on pages
> 2 & 3 of the following:
> http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/do...225771033.aspx
>
>
> "JJB" <103REMOVE-THIS267.1555@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ulBkwMZHIHA.1204@xxxxxx Quote:
>>I see in other posts in this forum that Office 2000 has run well for
>>everyone. I've tried installing it and it runs, but I want of course to
>>get the latest SP's and security patches. Unfortunately if you go to the
>>Office Updates web site it tells you that it won't support Office 2000,
>>only Office XP and above, but if you want to run Office 2000 on Vista it
>>directs you to where you can download them manually. I've tried several
>>different downloads of SP3 but each one tells me "The expected version of
>>the product was not found on your system".
>>
>> Is this everyone's experience? Is every Office 2000 / Vista user running
>> the base product unpatched?
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> James
>>
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