Spell check 2003 installed after Office 2007 disables MS active sync

[JERRY]

Any ideas why in trying to correct the French spelling check fiasco created
in Outlook and Office 2007, when I installed spell check from Office 2003 my
active sync suddenly won't sync. I get an error to the effect that active
sync can't access the network and thus cannot sync. I have reinstalled my
operating system twice now and each time when I install the 2003 spell check
option, suddenly my Active Sync goes defunct. I am using xp home, Office and
Outlook 2007 and Active Sync 4.5

Any help would be appreciated
Jerry

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

are you just installing the proofing tools? do you have an older version of
office you could install the tools from? Outlook 2003 requires activation
and you can't active the tools - which could be causing problems with AS.

 

[JERRY]

Diane
I had Office 2003 installed on the machine to begin with. I removed it when
I purchased Office 2007. When the spell check in Outlook Express came up in
a foreign language (French) only, I followed the directions in one of the
posts here to reinstall only the spellchecker which was a part of the
proofing tools. The install of just this one segment went well and gave me a
spell checker when posting to newsgroups like this one. It worked! My
machine must have maintained remnants of the original Office 2003 somewhere
on the system as all I had to do was plug in the serial numbers. I never was
reminded or prompted about any activation. As you say, nevertheless, I had a
problem with AS after that. A few days later when I tried to sink my PDA I
got the error and from that time forward Active Sync would not sync. I did
not know that this was the root of the problem at the time, because I had
also installed several other pieces of software at the same time. I had an
earlier "ghosted" backup of my system without these files and by process of
elimination, I duplicated the error immediately after reinstalling the 2003
spellcheck portion of proofing tools.

So I am back to square one. I guess I'll have to find another spell check
program for the times I use Outlook Express. My spelling is not all that
bad, but the spell checker does alert me in the case of typeo's. Thanks for
your response ... and any additional help will be welcomed.

Jerry

 

[Dutch]

A little different, but same result for me.

Running Vista Home Premium on the desk top and Mobile 5 on the iPaq PDA. I also
have Office 2007 Small Business installed.

Things were running & synching great until I installed FrontDesk 2003, which
consequently installed Office Service Pak 2 (I assume from Office 2003). Now I
get a message that...

"Synchronization cannot be started because you are not able to log on to the
network and access information. Restart your desktop computer and synchronize
again. If the problem persists, contact your network admin."

I am able to browse the content on the PDA from the desktop, so I know it is
connected, but the synch process pukes.

It appears Office 2007 & any part of 2003 are incompatible regarding synching,
though Vista uses Mobile Center, not ActiveSync.

Think I'll post this on an Office forum.

Below is a snippet from an Outlook forum.

 

[Dutch]

A little different, but same result for me.

Running Vista Home Premium on the desk top and Mobile 5 on the iPaq PDA. I also
have Office 2007 Small Business installed.

Things were running & synching great until I installed FrontDesk 2003, which
consequently installed Office Service Pak 2 (I assume from Office 2003). Now I
get a message that...

"Synchronization cannot be started because you are not able to log on to the
network and access information. Restart your desktop computer and synchronize
again. If the problem persists, contact your network admin."

I am able to browse the content on the PDA from the desktop, so I know it is
connected, but the synch process pukes.

It appears Office 2007 & any part of 2003 are incompatible regarding synching,
though Vista uses Mobile Center, not ActiveSync.

Think I'll post this on an Office forum.

Below is a snippet from an Outlook forum.

 

[Dutch]

Remove the Office 2003 component installed after office 2007. After having
remove FrontPage 2003, synching now works again.