Loading Frontpage 2003 on my computer

[Bob Jennings]

Recently I had a catastrophic 'crash' following hard drive failure.
On reloading XP Home and Office 2007 on a new drive, I cannot 'fire-up' my
copy of Frontpage and get a notice advising me that the set-up cannot find my
copy of Office 2007.
I've downloaded all updates including SP2 but no joy.

Anyone have any ideas on what I need to do please?
Bob Jennings

 

[David B.]

FrontPage 2003 has no relation to Office 2007, is your FP CD an upgrade?
What was your order of installation? It should be FP2003, then service pack
installation up to SP3, then Office 2007, then it's service packs.

 

[Ronx]

To expand a little on David's reply, if your copy of FrontPage 2003 is an
upgrade, the notice says Office, but means a *previous* version of
FrontPage. This can be FrontPage 98, 2000, XP or 2002 (which is the same as
XP), or any version of Office 2000, XP or 2002 that *includes* FrontPage as
part of the office suite.
If you have a qualifying version, insert it into the CD drive when the
notice comes up, then swap the discs back when required.
For the easiest installation experience, you should install in chronological
order - but installing FP2003 out of sequence may mean you have to repair
Office 2007 since FP may overwrite some Office 2007 tools.
--
Ron Symonds
Microsoft MVP (Expression Web)
http://www.rxs-enterprises.org/fp

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[Kevin]

Office 2007 does not include Frontpage of any versions. The last time FP was
part of the Microsoft Office family was 2003 but this was sold separately (not
part of suite).

What you now need is Expression Web version 3 but the systems requirement for EW3
is slightly higher than FP 2003 so please check it out before buying it.

hth