PowerPoint can't locate Microsoft Word

[Jeff]

Using PP 2002 in Windows XP.

I've successfully sent slides and notes to MS Word 2002 in the past. But
this time when I try to use "File/Send to" I get an error message that says:
"PowerPoint can't locate Microsoft Word. Make sure that MS Word is properly
installed on your computer".

I believe the problem arises from the fact that a month ago I temporarily
installed Office 2007 and because I did not like it I uninstalled it. My
pre-existing Office 2002 installation has continued to work fine after that
and still does until now when I just got this PP error. How do I resolve
this? I suppose I could re-install Office 2002 but I would hate to lose all
my customizations and changes over the year. Is there another way to let PP
know how to find Word?

Thanks.

Jeff

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

In the Help menu, have tried Detect and repare?

 

[Echo S]

Does it work if you open Word, then try the SendTo?

You might just need to re-register Word.
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ReRegisterWord.htm

 

[Guest]

No, I tried that: having Word open ad trying to send to. I get the same
error message.

I'll check out the re-registering of Word in the link below.

Thanks.

Jeff

 

[Guest]

Not sure what that is, but will explore it.

Someone suggested running winword /r. Will try that too.

Jeff

In the Help menu, have tried Detect and repare?

Using PP 2002 in Windows XP.

I've successfully sent slides and notes to MS Word 2002 in the past.
But this time when I try to use "File/Send to" I get an error
message that says:
"PowerPoint can't locate Microsoft Word. Make sure that MS Word is
properly installed on your computer".

I believe the problem arises from the fact that a month ago I
temporarily installed Office 2007 and because I did not like it I
uninstalled it. My pre-existing Office 2002 installation has
continued to work fine after that and still does until now when I
just got this PP error. How do I resolve this? I suppose I could
re-install Office 2002 but I would hate to lose all my
customizations and changes over the year. Is there another way to
let PP know how to find Word? Thanks.

Jeff

 

[Guest]

Merci Jean-Pierre. Your suggestions worked for me and now all is well. I
never knew about the "Detect and repair" option

Before trying it I tried winword /r and that did not solve the problem and I
think I know why. Maybe you can help.

The only Office apps I use are those from my Office XP Pro (which I believe
is office 2002). In trying to figure out what was wrong on my computer I
searched and found that in my
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office" folder I have the following folders,
which make no sense:
Media, Templates, and Office 10
** BUT also folders for Office11 and Office12 !!

The Office11 folder contains empty folders except for:
- a "addins" folder which just contains the file TosOlkN.ecf
- a "1033" folder that contains only the file setup.chm

The Office12 folder contins several files (Wordconv.exe, etc.) but none that
are "winword.exe", etc.

I am not sure how these folders and files got here. They appear to be left
overs. I believe this laptop came with trial versions of later Office suites
that I had uninstalled but left residues and are what are now messing me up.

I then went to Control Panel\Add-Remove applications and found that it had
listed as installed programs:
- MS Office XP Professional - 145 MB
- MS Office XP Professional with Frontpage - 214 MB

I do not understand why there would be 2 (!) installations and which one is
the correct one to keep. I do not recall using Frontpage (though I may have
once tried it) but find I have a folder called
C:\Program Files\microsoft frontpage
which contains a folder called "version3.0" which itself contains an empty
"bin" folder.

Must be left overs!! ?

Since things are working correctly it might be safer to leave everything
alone, but this sure is confusing and it looks like I may have several
redundent installations that left residual files behind after their
uninstallations.

Any advice?

Thanks.

Jeff

In the Help menu, have tried Detect and repare?

Using PP 2002 in Windows XP.

I've successfully sent slides and notes to MS Word 2002 in the past.
But this time when I try to use "File/Send to" I get an error
message that says:
"PowerPoint can't locate Microsoft Word. Make sure that MS Word is
properly installed on your computer".

I believe the problem arises from the fact that a month ago I
temporarily installed Office 2007 and because I did not like it I
uninstalled it. My pre-existing Office 2002 installation has
continued to work fine after that and still does until now when I
just got this PP error. How do I resolve this? I suppose I could
re-install Office 2002 but I would hate to lose all my
customizations and changes over the year. Is there another way to
let PP know how to find Word? Thanks.

Jeff