H
Howard Kaikow
Eureka, I found the problem!
Permit to pause whilst I let off some steam.
Hsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
Ah, that felt good.
After spending severals hours today uninstalling, re-installing, using
eraser97 and manually removing things, I was finally able to re-install
Office and not have the error occur.
However, my glee was short lived!
When I restored my global templates to the Startup directory, the error
re-appeared!
I then added the templates to the Startup directory 1 at a time and found
the problem.
On 4 Oct 2004, I had modified one of the global templates and somehow the
reference to the VBA extensibility library 5.3 was "MISSING". Due to changes
I made back in Oct, I'm not even sure thgat the reference is any longer
necessary, which is likely why I neverr noticed a problem.
So, it would appear that I had not used Tools | References in Word 97 since
at least 4 October 2004.
All I had to do was correct the reference in a copy of the gloabal template
that was not in the Startup directory, then replace the critter in the
Startup directory.
I used Retrospect to restore the C drive to yesterday's files, then replaced
the template.
Solution was simple.
Path to finding it very difficult.
MSFT error message not very useful.
Why did it not just tell me that there was a specific midssing reference?
Permit to pause whilst I let off some steam.
Hsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss!
Ah, that felt good.
After spending severals hours today uninstalling, re-installing, using
eraser97 and manually removing things, I was finally able to re-install
Office and not have the error occur.
However, my glee was short lived!
When I restored my global templates to the Startup directory, the error
re-appeared!
I then added the templates to the Startup directory 1 at a time and found
the problem.
On 4 Oct 2004, I had modified one of the global templates and somehow the
reference to the VBA extensibility library 5.3 was "MISSING". Due to changes
I made back in Oct, I'm not even sure thgat the reference is any longer
necessary, which is likely why I neverr noticed a problem.
So, it would appear that I had not used Tools | References in Word 97 since
at least 4 October 2004.
All I had to do was correct the reference in a copy of the gloabal template
that was not in the Startup directory, then replace the critter in the
Startup directory.
I used Retrospect to restore the C drive to yesterday's files, then replaced
the template.
Solution was simple.
Path to finding it very difficult.
MSFT error message not very useful.
Why did it not just tell me that there was a specific midssing reference?