MS Office XP Professional

[JR5280]

I have a really weird problem. I have had Office 2002/XP Pro installed since
Jan 04. Within the last week I have lost the ability to access it.
Office/Word/Excel are not in the Programs list or in Add/Remove Programs.
The only reference I can find is in Local Disk C:>Program Files I have a
folder "Microsoft Office" which has a folder for "Office 12". In that folder
is a bunch of Excel, Power Point and Word files. But nothing works. I am
running XP Home SP3.

I have a disk for Office XP Pro Service Pack 3 that says "this disk contains
service pack software only. Is it possible to reactivate/reinstall Office
XP? What about Option #2 to download Open Office? If I do that should I
delete the Microsoft Office folder?

Thanks very much for your help.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Have you tried a system restore to a point prior to last week? I don't know
if that wil work but it can't hurt.

Are you the only person who uses your computer?

 

[DL]

Office12 is Office 2007, sounds like someone tried to upgrade to Office2007

You can only Install from an OfficeXP cd, if OfficeXP was provided
preinstalled you should have a reinstallation cd, or a means provided by the
PC manifacturer of restoring your PC

 

[JR5280]

I only have 3 days restore points-not far enough back. I am the admin
account and my wife has a limited account.

Have you tried a system restore to a point prior to last week? I don't know
if that wil work but it can't hurt.

Are you the only person who uses your computer?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

I have a really weird problem. I have had Office 2002/XP Pro installed
since
Jan 04. Within the last week I have lost the ability to access it.
Office/Word/Excel are not in the Programs list or in Add/Remove Programs.
The only reference I can find is in Local Disk C:>Program Files I have a
folder "Microsoft Office" which has a folder for "Office 12". In that
folder
is a bunch of Excel, Power Point and Word files. But nothing works. I am
running XP Home SP3.

I have a disk for Office XP Pro Service Pack 3 that says "this disk
contains
service pack software only. Is it possible to reactivate/reinstall Office
XP? What about Option #2 to download Open Office? If I do that should I
delete the Microsoft Office folder?

Thanks very much for your help.

 

[JR5280]

The only other CD that I have is the Upgrade for Windows XP version 2002 SP2.

 

[DL]

As stated it appears someone tried to upgrade to Office 2007, which would
have removed your earlier version, then aborted the installation -
Presumably you tried double clicking winword.exe in the Office 12 folder?

 

[JR5280]

There is no winword.exe. The only .exe files are excelcnv, Moc, Oice,
ppcnvcom and wordconv. There is also an "Office 10" file in the Microsoft
Office folder. The only .exe files in the 10 are graph and proflwiz.

Is my only option to install a new/different office program?

 

[Earle Horton]

You can still buy Office XP at for example Amazon.com Marketplace. Office
2003 is somewhat different from 2002 (XP) and Office 2007 is a lot
different. It all depends on what your requirements are. I have heard that
Works 9.0 isn't too bad.

By the way, when installing a newer version of Office you will encounter a
screen that asks if you want to keep any old versions on disk or completely
replace them.

Earle

 

[Gordon]

You can still buy Office XP at for example Amazon.com Marketplace.

If I didn't use Outlook I wouldn't bother. Open Office 3 is more than the
equivalent of Office XP, is free, and will natively open 2007 documents,
unlike prior versions of Office!

 

[JR5280]

Thanks Gordon,
After looking at Open Office 3.0 I am going to download and use it. 90% of
what I need is in Word or Excel and Open Office appears to have at least
equal programs. MS is not worth the $100+ punishment for my changing their
OS.

 

[Gordon]

Thanks Gordon,
After looking at Open Office 3.0 I am going to download and use it. 90%
of
what I need is in Word or Excel and Open Office appears to have at least
equal programs. MS is not worth the $100+ punishment for my changing
their
OS.

YW.
A tip - when you've installed it, open a document then do Tools-Options and
expand openoffice.org at the top. Change the memory settings to something
like 164MB for OO and 64MB for Memory for Object for fast opening...