installed MS-Office 2000 -nuisances

[David Up]

I'd like to get rid of nuisance boxes that pop up now that
Office 2000 was installed from CD on the Dell 2400 I'm
setting up. It acts like it's trying to reinstall Ofice,
maybe. Otherwise, Office seems to operate OK.

When I log onto XP (as user), 2 or 3 little error windows
labeled "MS-Office 2000 Premium" pop up in succession,
saying: first, "The feature you are trying to access is on
a CD-ROM...." When I click through (Close) that, the last
little window says "Error 1706. No valid source could be
found for the product Office 2000. Windows Installer
cannot continue." When I close that, it seems to go ahead
and configure Office then be ready for business.

Why do these come up, and how to get rid of them?

 

[Jason Tsang]

Looks like you installed a lot of the options such that they would be
installed on first use.

As a result, the programs are running for the first time when the user logs
in, and it will prompt you for the install media. Since you aren't
providing it, it understandably fails.

 

[Gatekeeper]

My company did it right. They installed everything except Outlook as
"Run All from My Computer." This means that all the options are
automatically installed. Only Outlook was "Not Available," because my
company uses Lotus Notes (which sucks) as the default email client.

 

[Guest]

If you are using XP Pro and Office 2

I had the same problem with my set up, It appears to be a problem with the Office updates
If you install the updates BEFORE you go to each account and open the program you WILL get the 1706 error

Proceed with install in this manner and you wont get the error
Install Office 2K as Adminstrator. Including Outlook. Let the programs load then close them
If you are not using Adminstrator account for personal use, Fill in the info the Outlook wizard asks for using bogus info. (noone @nowhere.com, pop3.nowhere.com, smtp.nowhere.com
If you are using the Administrator account, fill in your correct E-mail account info
Let the wizard launch outlook, when you see the Outlook welcome message in your inbox go ahead and close Outlook. You are done with adminstrator account for now
Now got into each limited account, opening at least 1 Office program
There will be a pop up window asking for the initials of the user for that account. they should be in the box already. Just click ok
Once the initial box dialogue is done the programs should open as normal office programs
Now set up the E-mails for the various limited accounts
After all accounts are done, Log ina as Administrator and go to the Office update web site and start updating your Office programs

It worked for me
Aardi