Vista and Office 2003 / 2007

[Frank]

It did for me, after wasting 10 hours or so trying to figure out what
MSFTs pinhead developers had done. Found it in a post on a blog by
uksbsguy aka David Overton. gotta scroll way down.

Go to your program files directory, usually c:\program files\
Open \Microsoft Office\Office12. Complete path: [your system drive,
usually c:]\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12

Locate the executables for the office programs. Tip: to find them all,
click on the "Type" header in windows explorer then just scroll till you
see all the .exe files together. Word is called Winword, Ecxel is
called Excel, Access is called MSAccess, Publisher is called MSpub,
etc.

Now simply right click each one then select create shortcut. Instead
if it doing it, you will get a message saying it can't create the short
cut there, do you want to put it on your desk top (lamer than lame--why
would you create a short cut to there? - you are already there). Say
yes, without letting your bloodpressure rise, as I do.

When you want to use the program, just click the shortcut you've
created. Unbelievably, it works. It's worked for several people, and
it worked for me.

btw, if you can't see the proper directory or files, open the "tools"
menu in explorer, go to "folder options", then go to the "view" tab,
and then *select* show hidden files and folders. Then *deselect* "hide
extensions for known file types" and deslect "hide protected operating
system files". If you feel too nervous about doing this, find a friend
who knows what they are doing or hire someone.

Good luck.

This the first post I've seen on this subject so excuse me if I ask why
you "wasted' 10 hrs when you could have simply gone to start/all
programs/microsoft office...right clicked on word, excel, publisher
whatever and in "send to", chosen "Desktop (create shortcut)"?
Takes maybe all of 5 seconds or so.
Frank

 

[Frank]

Sorry, failed to make the point clearly.

The point is, shortcuts created that way do not solve the problem.

The problem was not missing shortcuts. The problem was stopping Office
from trying to reconfigure itself every time it started.

Opening office from shortcuts on the start window or with shortcuts
created from them causes word, excel et. al. to open a configuration
dialog and sit there for 3 to 5 minutes, going through useless nonsense
before they open. Creating shortcuts directly from the executable
stopped the problem.

As to wasting all that time, your solution doesn't work. To see the
collective human time wasted on the problem, search on office 2007
configuration at startup.

Sorry, I'm running Office 2007 and I've never experienced nor heard of
the problem you've just described.
But I'm glad you've solved it.
Frank

 

[DarkSentinel]

Sorry, failed to make the point clearly.

The point is, shortcuts created that way do not solve the problem.

The problem was not missing shortcuts. The problem was stopping Office
from trying to reconfigure itself every time it started.

Opening office from shortcuts on the start window or with shortcuts
created from them causes word, excel et. al. to open a configuration
dialog and sit there for 3 to 5 minutes, going through useless nonsense
before they open. Creating shortcuts directly from the executable
stopped the problem.

As to wasting all that time, your solution doesn't work. To see the
collective human time wasted on the problem, search on office 2007
configuration at startup.

All you have to do is right click on the app in question in the start menu,
drag it to the Desk Top, release, and select copy here or create shortcut
here. Works every time. If it does otherwise means you messed something up
on the install. While you CAN do it in the fashion you describe, why on
earth would you want to when it takes all of 1-2 seconds to do it in the
fashion I described?

 

[Scrivenere]

Sorry to hear of your difficulties.

I just purchased a Dell XPS laptop with Windows Vista Ultimate installed.
For what it's worth, after you installed Office, did you upgrade your
installation to SP3?

When I installed my copy of Office 2003 Professional, it installed smoothly
and worked. Though I was informed it was completely compatible with Vista,
one errant event occurred: I could not choose an office assistant. The
only one available was "Mr. Paperclip". When I attempted to choose another,
I received an error message: Not enough memory. Like you, no one seemed to
know how to correct the problem. I finally found a solution at David
Overton's blog. You might want to explore his blogs for an answer to your
situation. It's a super site. Here is the link that corrected my
situation, though I suspect, if you get your Office up and running, you'll
probably encounter the same thing.

http://uksbsguy.com/blogs/doverton/...ot-not-enough-memory-quot-error-messages.aspx



I hope this helps you. And, I agree with you and other posts here in this
forum: Vista can be difficult, especially when drivers of older hardware
have not been written for the Vista environment. It forces the consumer to
purchase new hardware, because the manufacturers won't "update" their
drivers for Vista.



I wish you well, Valdimar,



Ernie

 

[Scrivenere]

Thank you, Valdimar. I hope you resolve the issue. If you discover the
problem and post it back to this forum, I know I'd appreciate it. Another
"solution" I can add to my file.

Stay well,

Ernie

 

[Scrivenere]

Thank you.

 

[Sunny]

This may not sound very scientific, but after hundreds of wasted hours of
searching and experimenting, here is what I did and it works !
1. Uninstall all Microsoft Office 2007, 03 etc versions.,
2. Uninstall all MS Office file convertors, support software for desktop
gadgets, downloaded patches, etc
3. Go to hard drive and find the Microsoft Office folder and delete it.
4. Since I did not want to monkey with the registry I went to PC World and
downloaded CCleaner and Regclean and installed it.
5. Run both programs multiple times till all registry errors are corrected.
This could take many reboots as after every reboot you will see new errors
when you run the softwares.
6. Alternate would be to open registry and delete all references of office,
risky !
7. Installed Office 03 fresh by finding the setup file on the cd using
windows explorer, right click and run it as administrator and downloaded
patches and everything is doing great now.

Hope this helps

 

[Michael]

Hello.

I also had this problem and after reading hundreds of web pages all I
can say is that the only *_real_* solution is format and reinstall
vista. Most online suggestions are crap and this thread was not helpful
at all either.

The fact that you replied to a THREE YEAR OLD POST shows the true nature of
the oddity I call "the techarena moron."