ACCESS 97 WON'T WORK WITH OFFICE XP INSTALLED??

[JR]

Hi,

I recently installed Office XP (2002) on a new Dell machine. Everything
worked fine. Then I installed Office 95 (Everything worked fine) Then I
installed Office 97 -- everything worked EXCEPT FOR ACCESS 97!!

The reason for installing all the versions of Office is that we are a
training company and train in Access 97 and Access XP (the reason I
installed Office 95 was because it is a full licensed professional version,
whereas 97 is a professional upgrade and need to "check for qualifying
products for the upgrade")

I have often previously installed Access 97 on other machines using the 95
to prove eligibility. The difference here is that the environment is Windows
XP, whereas before when it worked fine, the OS was Windows 98.

I would very much appreciate if any of you out there have any suggestions
about getting my Access 97 working.

Thanks,

John.

 

[Norman Yuan]

It is very hard to offer possible help if you only say "It won't work". At
least some description of what happened. I had Access97 and Office
XP/Office2003 on the same machine before and it worked OK.

There is a known bug for Access 97, especially when installing on WinXP: a
font causes "no lisnece" error. I am not sure if it is your problem.

 

[JR]

Hi Norman,

Sorry about my vague posting.

The message I am getting in fact, is " Microsoft Access can't start because
there is no license for it on this machine."

Do you have any suggestions as to how to overcome this.

Thanks

John.

 

[DL]

Well for a starter the MS advice for installing multiple version of Office
is to install earliest version first, update, then install next
version,ensuring it is to a different folder.
It is not usually neccessary to install the qualifying product, you just pop
it in the cd drive and point the upgrade to it, when it complains.

 

[Jeff Conrad]

in message:

Sorry about my vague posting.

The message I am getting in fact, is " Microsoft Access can't start because
there is no license for it on this machine."

Do you have any suggestions as to how to overcome this.

Fairly common bug caused by a font of all things.

See this Microsoft Knowledge Base Article for the solution:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=141373

And same information here:

http://www.mvps.org/access/bugs/bugs0013.htm

There is a free download to fix the problem but it only works on Windows 98 I believe.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=191224

 

[JR]

Jeff,

Thank a lot!! That fix (changing the font name of hatten to anything you
like, reinstalling Office 97, changing back the font name to original name)
works perfectly.

Access 97 now works.

Much obliged, you have saved my hide for tomorrow!!

John.

 

[Douglas J. Steele]

There is a free download to fix the problem but it only works on Windows
98 I believe.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=191224

Yup, Win98 only, and it can apparently cause problems if applied on any
other operating system.

 

[JR]

Actually, I've just done it in WindowsXP Home Ed. also and it works too.

John.

 

[Jeff Conrad]

in message:

Jeff,

Thank a lot!! That fix (changing the font name of hatten to anything you
like, reinstalling Office 97, changing back the font name to original name)
works perfectly.

Access 97 now works.

Much obliged, you have saved my hide for tomorrow!!

You're welcome, glad I could help.

 

[adsl]

Hi,

I recently installed Office XP (2002) on a new Dell machine. Everything
worked fine. Then I installed Office 95 (Everything worked fine) Then I
installed Office 97 -- everything worked EXCEPT FOR ACCESS 97!!

The reason for installing all the versions of Office is that we are a
training company and train in Access 97 and Access XP (the reason I
installed Office 95 was because it is a full licensed professional
version, whereas 97 is a professional upgrade and need to "check for
qualifying products for the upgrade")

I have often previously installed Access 97 on other machines using the 95
to prove eligibility. The difference here is that the environment is
Windows XP, whereas before when it worked fine, the OS was Windows 98.

I would very much appreciate if any of you out there have any suggestions
about getting my Access 97 working.

Thanks,

John.

 

[adsl]

It is very hard to offer possible help if you only say "It won't work". At
least some description of what happened. I had Access97 and Office
XP/Office2003 on the same machine before and it worked OK.

There is a known bug for Access 97, especially when installing on WinXP: a
font causes "no lisnece" error. I am not sure if it is your problem.

 

[adsl]

Hi Norman,

Sorry about my vague posting.

The message I am getting in fact, is " Microsoft Access can't start
because there is no license for it on this machine."

Do you have any suggestions as to how to overcome this.

Thanks

John.

 

[adsl]

in message:


Fairly common bug caused by a font of all things.

See this Microsoft Knowledge Base Article for the solution:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=141373

And same information here:

http://www.mvps.org/access/bugs/bugs0013.htm

There is a free download to fix the problem but it only works on Windows
98 I believe.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=191224

 

[adsl]

Jeff,

Thank a lot!! That fix (changing the font name of hatten to anything you
like, reinstalling Office 97, changing back the font name to original
name) works perfectly.

Access 97 now works.

Much obliged, you have saved my hide for tomorrow!!

John.

 

[adsl]

in message:


You're welcome, glad I could help.

 

[adsl]

Yup, Win98 only, and it can apparently cause problems if applied on any
other operating system.

 

[adsl]

Actually, I've just done it in WindowsXP Home Ed. also and it works too.

John.

 

[adsl]

Well for a starter the MS advice for installing multiple version of Office
is to install earliest version first, update, then install next
version,ensuring it is to a different folder.
It is not usually neccessary to install the qualifying product, you just
pop
it in the cd drive and point the upgrade to it, when it complains.

 

[Tony Toews]

Well for a starter the MS advice for installing multiple version of Office
is to install earliest version first, update, then install next
version,ensuring it is to a different folder.

Whereas I've deliberately installed Access 97, 2000, 2002/XP and 2003
out of sequence the last four or five installs. And in a different
sequence each time. Other than the License problem
http://www.mvps.org/access/bugs/bugs0013.htm I've never had a problem.

One thing I do run is the Access Version Checker which allows me to
click on an MDB and it opens up the appropriate version of Access for
that MDB automatically. Definitely a recommended product.
http://www.aylott.com.au/accver.htm

Tony


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