Is office 97 the problem.

[Guest]

Hi,

I am currently working on windows xp and found out that one of my third
party software which is written to run mail merge function on office 97 have
a problem.

The software have no problem running on windows xp till the user try to do a
mail merge function of office 97.

Hence to overcome this problem i have to give the user admin right in order
for the mail merge function to work. After i remove the admin right the user
can do mail merging from there on.

But the issue is that there is a lot of user using this computer to execute
this job. And there is a lot of computer out there with a lot of user. Hence
I have to set admin right whenever a new user login and try to do the job.
This would kill me young.

Is there a workaround to resolve this issue. Thank you! I really want to die
young.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi - probably best to post in an Office newsgroup with this question.

I have to add that Office 97 is now VERY old, is unsupported, and Outlook 97
was so buggy at release that MS created Outlook 98 and offered it as a free
download for quite some time. Get rid of Office 97....

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the advise but this problem is something to do with windows xp
security and not the office problem. What is wrong with xp that limit the use
of the office. Worse of all it come from the same family.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

If you test this on a workstation running Outlook 2000, 2002 or 2003, what
happens?
I still maintain it isn't an XP issue....but report back if you can test the
above.