Office Web Components in 2003 not working right?

[Jason.Dykstra]

I have a webpage here that uses Office Web Components so that peopl can view
the tables. Since I have updated the PCs to Windows Xp and Office 2003 you
cannot see these tables at all, it is just a red X at the top left of where
the table would be.

I have tried many thinsg to get this to work, at the moment the main issue
was that you had to install OWC 9 for EACH user that wanted to see these
tables as even installing as Admin did not proliferate the needed files to
all users can use em.

I have tried changing user permissions, installing it as a user and then
copying that profile over to the default user fprofile.

I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling: First OWC2003 and
installing 9. Then uninstalling all and reinstalling (both 2003 and 9)

The fix was to uninstall Office 2003 and all its components and then
sinatlling Office XP and OWC 9.0 (takes about 1.5-2 hours a PC for the ones
that are being used here.

Does anyone have an ides of what might be going on, somethjing I can do to
keep Office 2003 and just either get OWC to work properly, or installing
something that does nto take as long?

 

[Ovidiu Ghisa]

In your page you use the old OWC.
You need to change it to the new OWC

Ovidiu Ghisa

 

[Paul - Lydian]

The red X indicates that you do not have the correct version of OWC loaded to
support the components.

When you install Office 2003 over Office 2000 or XP then it will uninstall
OWC 9 if installed, there is a knowledge base article about this. OWC 9 is
part of Office 2000 and an optional component of Office XP, it cannot be
downloaded from Microsoft.

If you wish to continue using OWC 9 and not upgrade the software to OWC 10
or 11 then install OWC 9 from Office 2000 after installing Office 2003 or
tick the optional component when installing Office XP. This does work in my
experience but I don't use Admin installs.

Remember you need an Office 2000 license to use OWC 9 so if you are using
new installs of Office XP or Office 2003 then you will need to check that
your licensing agreements also cover licensing Office 2000.

 

[Jason.Dykstra]

I thank you both for your replies.

To the first poster , Ovidiu Ghisa:
I was thinking this also, but the content/application owner will no
budge in that it is not a problem with that, so there is nothing I can do on
that front. It is one of the reasons I posted here to see if I was rigth nor
not. But that does limit me and I may just have to reinstall Office XP on all
machines for this to work.....


To the second poster, Paul - Lydian,
This is a fresh install of Office 2003 from what i know, the liscensing
is not an issue, i work for Intel and I believe that they have all the
correct information in that area. No matter what version of OWC that i
install, the pivot table will not load if office 2003 is installed. Only way
it hasworked so far is with Office XP (or below) and OWC 9 (I have not
installed below that).


So in comclusion, right now I am just going to spend the 1.5-2 hours per PC
(35 PCs in all) to install Office XP after uninstalling 2003.

Thank you both for your help, it was much appreciated and gave me some new
insight that i did test and will keep testing once I get the tables to work
for my customers on the production floor.