XP Home & Office97

[trebor4258]

Another thread down below mentioned that Office97 works okay with XP Home,
and it does for me with one exception.

When I open a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet by double-clicking, the
appropriate program starts and the file is opened with an error message
displayed saying that the file is already open. Depending on which program
it is, the error is a little different, but it's basically saying that the
file is already in use (or open) and it's by the same user name that I'm
logged in as.

If I close the error window by clicking OK (Excel) or Cancel (Word),
everything works just fine. This certainly isn't a deal killer, but it is
annoying.

Any suggestions or even a clue would be appreciated.

TIA-trebor

 

[Chris Lanier]

Greetings --

First make sure you have Office 97 SR2 installed.

Office 97 SR2
http://office.microsoft.com/

OFF97: List of Fixed Problems in Office 97 for Windows, SR-2
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q151020&

If you still run into problems post your question in the Office Newsgroups
http://communities.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.asp

 

[Gord Dibben]

trebor

Sounds like your file associations could be bad. Try re-registering these
Applications.

For Excel.........

First try the standard fix(es)......Tools>Options>General uncheck "ignore
other applications"

OR Start>Run "excel.exe /regserver"(no quotes and note the space before the /
mark).

You may have to enter your full path to excel.exe....in that case surround
with quotes as in..... "C:\mypath\to Excel\somewhere\excel.exe" /regserver

For Word...........

Start>Run "winword.exe /r" (no quotes and note the space before the /
mark). Again, you may have to enter the full path to winword.exe

Gord