SHOUTING will not win you any friends in this forum!
A quick check at Google suggests that the problem is related to the
permissions set against the registry item
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip
Log into Windows as administrator run Regedit, right click the key and give
full access to users.
Log back into your user account then Word/Excel should only reconfigure once
more.
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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site
www.gmayor.com
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