Office 2000 problems

[Rebecca]

We recently installed new PC's with Windows OS 2000
installed by the factory. On all these PC's (22 of them),
we installed Office 2000 from a pre-existing, multi-
license cd set that we have had for about 3 years. On
many of these new PC's, users keep having bizarre and
difficult to explain problems when they are working in
Office. One one of them, the PC tech support had me
reinstall the OS, which I did. The problems disappeared,
but new ones took their place. Most of these error
messages take place in Word, but several in Excel as
well. I am now wondering if the older, non-updated Office
2000 we are still using might possibly not be playing
nicely with the newest installations of OS 2000.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Rebecca,

Unfortunately when what you're encountering is difficult
to communicate it may be equally difficult for the folks
here to recognize known issues. Generally updating
Office 2000 (http://officeupdate.com for standalone, Admin
updates from the Resource Kit for deployed copies
http://microsoft.com/office/ork/2000) plus keeping Windows
and device drivers current can help.

There may be conflicts with 3rd party add-ins/antivirus, etc
if they too are not kept current, but Office 2000 runs on
Windows 2000.

If you could describe a specific issue, including error messages
that may help.


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We recently installed new PC's with Windows OS 2000
installed by the factory. On all these PC's (22 of them),
we installed Office 2000 from a pre-existing, multi-
license cd set that we have had for about 3 years. On
many of these new PC's, users keep having bizarre and
difficult to explain problems when they are working in
Office. One one of them, the PC tech support had me
reinstall the OS, which I did. The problems disappeared,
but new ones took their place. Most of these error
messages take place in Word, but several in Excel as
well. I am now wondering if the older, non-updated Office
2000 we are still using might possibly not be playing
nicely with the newest installations of OS 2000. >>
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Hope that helps,

Bob Buckland ? MS Office Products family MVP
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