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MS Office playing up
« on: Dec 27th, 2002, 4:23pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Odd situation.
 
I upgraded my Office 97Pro to Office 2000Pro (using the schools license agreement copy - teachers are okay to do this as long as they stay with the licensing school). The reason - to mark kids' work at home, where I didn't have Publisher for example, and some of the kids' Word files seemed to use non-97 features, so didn't load correctly, plus Access97 can't handle Access2K replicated database files.
 
None of the applications will allow a 'File - Save As...' operation, but will save over existing files. In other words, I can't give a file a new name in the 'Save' window - I get an 'invalid file name' error, even just using a single letter filename. The clumsy way around this is to create a new empty file via Explorer and then save over this in Word, Excel, Access or whatever. Any ideas?
 
I uninstalled, reinstalled, etc. MSO2K, then tried to revert back to MSO97 - all seemed okay except Access97 now tells me it hasn't got a valid license on this PC - whereas 2 hours ago, it was fine.
 
I suspect it's time for a ground-up reinstallation of Windows, since I've done nothing different with MSO2K over Win98 from what's happened at work plenty of times with our older laptops - I suspect it's my Win98 system being all flaky and weird (it's often taken 3-4 reboots just to start properly in the last couple of months, for example).
 
Anyone got any clues?
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Re: MS Office playing up
« Reply #1 on: Dec 29th, 2002, 9:59am »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Maybe the older license wouldn't reinstall over the newer one?  A shot in the dark!
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Re: MS Office playing up
« Reply #2 on: Dec 31st, 2002, 2:17pm »		 Quote Quote  Modify Modify
Yeah, strange that a full uninstall left something behind to bodge the backward step. I did a trawl through the Registry and found loads of references to 'Office 9.0', aka Off2K, as well as for version 8.0 (Off97). However, removing those didn't resolve anything, so I bit the bullet and did a reformat. My last installation lasted for just over 13 months, which (given the amount of fiddling that I do) isn't too bad. I've just got a copy of Drive Image, so when this rebuild is finished, I'll use that and save myself the 12 hours or so 'next' time (by then, I'll have probably gone to W2K or even ExPee, so the image will be redundant).
 
It's a good job I have several partitions - I just copied a few critical folders from the C: drive (like 'Windows',  Wink) so I could restore things like my 'Favorites' lists, address book and email archive without too much fuss. It's also handy for dealing with all those fussy drivers that took ages to track down - just point the installation wizard at the copy of C:\windows\inf and it pretty much restores them all.
 
Right, I'm off to see how quickly I can knacker this 'new' system up!
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