Office 2K: Word and Excel are now asking for original CD (why?)

[Office Guy]

A full installation of Office 2K premium SR1 (circa 2004) on a win-98
system has recently started to ask for the original Office CD when
Excel, Word and Photo-draw is launched (but not Outlook).

I believe this behavior is normal when the "run application from CD"
is selected when these apps are originally installed, but in this case
the entire office suite was installed about 4 years ago with the
"install entire app on this machine" option selected.

What would have to happen for an app like excel or word to start
behaving like it thinks it needs to run from the CD (or in any case it
starts the installation process when the app is launched)?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi guy,

If the MS Installer detects what it thinks it is a problem it will try to repair or reinstall Office. Unless it was installed from
a server or from a copy of the CD stored on the computer it will ask for the CD for the repair.

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A full installation of Office 2K premium SR1 (circa 2004) on a win-98
system has recently started to ask for the original Office CD when
Excel, Word and Photo-draw is launched (but not Outlook).

I believe this behavior is normal when the "run application from CD"
is selected when these apps are originally installed, but in this case
the entire office suite was installed about 4 years ago with the
"install entire app on this machine" option selected.

What would have to happen for an app like excel or word to start
behaving like it thinks it needs to run from the CD (or in any case it
starts the installation process when the app is launched)? >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*