MS Office 2000

[Hutch]

I had to restore my OS (MS ME) and now office (Word,
Excel, PP, Access) will not launch although all of the
Office files are still intact and resident of my hard
drive. I can't locate the original Office CD to reload.
Do I have any options?

 

[Guest]

Hi Hutch

Please go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office and
see if you can double-click on the following files to
launch the applications.

winword.exe
excel.exe

If they launch, the problem is the sortcut - you may have
to re-create them.

Regards

CJ

 

[Hutch]

Thanks for the tip CJ however when I tried your suggestion
I received the following message "This application must be
installed to run. Please ren Setup from the location you
orignally installed the application". Any other
suggestions?

 

[Guest]

Avoid MS ME. It is the worst operating system MS ever
launched. I believe it is responsible for your problem.
Try and get hold of a copy of Win 2000 and reload.

 

[-=calen=-]

Sounds to me like the problem is due to the System Restore feature you used
to "fix" your problems. I agree about the shortcomings of Me, but this
problem could also occur with XP Home's System Restore. Personally, I've
never seen any form of (Microsoft's) System Restore solve any problems,
creates new ones. You may have used a restore point which was created prior
to your Office installation.

Win2K is good, but XP Pro comes closer to the interface you were accustomed
to with Me. Also, support for XP won't be dropped as quickly.

 

[Matt_O]

Calen's right.

What's happened is the restore has removed the Windows Installer registry keys that were created when Office was installed. The version of the OS you're running isn't the factor - Winows Installer is trying to setup your personal Office configuration from scratch and needs the source files to do this. Unless you can use System Restore to roll forward again (I know you can do this in Win XP, not sure about ME) the only way you'll get Office working is to find the source CD.

Matt.