Installing Excel 2000

[Bruce]

I'm replacing my old desktop with a new Dell latop that came with MS
Works Suite 2004, which included Word 2002.

I have MS Office 2000 Premium on CD, and I want to load only Excel 2000
to the laptop. When I do a custom insall and select the Excel module,
and no other modules, and select Excel 2000 to run it all from the
computer, I expect to be able to then launch Excel and do everything from
the laptop, without the CD.

But, when I try to run Excel, I get a message saying that there are items
on the CD that are needed, and to insert the Office 2000 Premium CD to be
able to run Excel. If I do that, it runs just fine, but that's not what
I want.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Bruce

 

[Bruce]

I'm replacing my old desktop with a new Dell latop that came with MS
Works Suite 2004, which included Word 2002.

I have MS Office 2000 Premium on CD, and I want to load only Excel
2000 to the laptop. When I do a custom insall and select the Excel
module, and no other modules, and select Excel 2000 to run it all from
the computer, I expect to be able to then launch Excel and do
everything from the laptop, without the CD.

But, when I try to run Excel, I get a message saying that there are
items on the CD that are needed, and to insert the Office 2000 Premium
CD to be able to run Excel. If I do that, it runs just fine, but
that's not what I want.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Bruce

I forgot to say that the reason I mentioned Word 2002 came with the new
laptop. That's because some may be wondering why don't I just install all
of Office 2000 Premium, and it's because I don't want to replace Word
2002 with Word 2000.

 

[Jay B]

i believe it is looking for files from the shared components section
that you did not install. just checking excel is not enough. you should
also put in the other topics other than word,outlook,powerpoint,access etc.

it also will store these files in a separate folder from the more
current version that you have.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Information about running multiple versions of Office with Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=828956

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I'm replacing my old desktop with a new Dell latop that came with MS
| Works Suite 2004, which included Word 2002.
|
| I have MS Office 2000 Premium on CD, and I want to load only Excel 2000
| to the laptop. When I do a custom insall and select the Excel module,
| and no other modules, and select Excel 2000 to run it all from the
| computer, I expect to be able to then launch Excel and do everything from
| the laptop, without the CD.
|
| But, when I try to run Excel, I get a message saying that there are items
| on the CD that are needed, and to insert the Office 2000 Premium CD to be
| able to run Excel. If I do that, it runs just fine, but that's not what
| I want.
|
| What am I doing wrong?
|
| Thanks,
| Bruce

 

[Bruce]

i believe it is looking for files from the shared components section
that you did not install. just checking excel is not enough. you
should also put in the other topics other than
word,outlook,powerpoint,access etc.

it also will store these files in a separate folder from the more
current version that you have.

I installed Office Tools, and all is well.

Thanks,
Bruce