Word automation fails after un-installing Office 2007 Beta 2

[Ed Adamthwaite]

Hi all,
After trialling Office 2007 Beta 2 and having it run out of time, I decided
to un-install it.
I develop Access applications, automating of Word and Excel is a common
task. Excel automation works OK, just using regserv32 to change to whatever
version of Excel I want as default has no problems.
I now find that automation of Word fails.
In the past, manually opening the version of word that I want to automate
causes the Windows installer to re-register that version as the default for
the machine. It goes through the process, but Access doesn't see the
MSWORDx.OLB file in references.
Browsing to it resolves this, but because the differnt versions of Office
are installed into different folders in C:\Program Files, distribution to
other machines fail because the path is hard-coded for browsed references.

How do I re-register Word for automation?
Thanks heaps for any suggestions.
Regards,
Ed.

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Ed,

After trialling Office 2007 Beta 2 and having it run out of time, I decided
to un-install it.
I develop Access applications, automating of Word and Excel is a common
task. Excel automation works OK, just using regserv32 to change to whatever
version of Excel I want as default has no problems.
I now find that automation of Word fails.
In the past, manually opening the version of word that I want to automate
causes the Windows installer to re-register that version as the default for
the machine. It goes through the process, but Access doesn't see the
MSWORDx.OLB file in references.
Browsing to it resolves this, but because the differnt versions of Office
are installed into different folders in C:\Program Files, distribution to
other machines fail because the path is hard-coded for browsed references.

How do I re-register Word for automation?

Well, which version do you now have installed?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Ed Adamthwaite]

Hi Cindy,
Thank you for asking.
I am running Office 97 Pro, 2000 Pro and 2003 Pro. My default settings are
for Office 2000 apps. I had no problems running multiple instances of
Access, Excel, Word and Powerpoint in all versions including Office 2007
beta 2.
After de-installing Office 2007 beta 2, the library files for Word (any
version) don't in the Access (any version) VBA IDE.
I've tried the "Run --> Winword /r"
It goes through the install procedure in the same manner as if you open Word
2000 after using Word 2003 or vice versa, but no appearance in the
references dialog.

I've also removed all references to Office 2007 in the registry as described
in KB928218, but no joy.
I've tried completely re-installing Word 2000, no joy.
I'm now out of ideas.

Regards,
Ed.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

While most (not all) features work when you have multiple installs of Office,
you've run head on into the big drawback. Removing any one version or even
substantially altering it can make other versions tipsy, pardon the technotalk.

You may need to remove them all in reverse order (newest first) then reinstall
in chrono order (oldest first) after cleaning the registry.

Install any needed SPs/patches after installing each version but before moving
on to the next.

Might be worth asking about this in one of the general Office support forums as
well.