Microsoft Office has not been installed for the current user

[Charlie]

I get, no matter what program from the Microsoft Office Home and Business
2007 suite a message saying "Microsoft Office Excell/Word/ect. has not been
installed for the current user. Please run setup to install the
application." Well, I have uninstalled Office, reinstalled it and the same
message appears. Where is setup? I found a setup.exe, clicked on it and
nothing happened. I am the only use of this computer. A couple weeks ago, I
had to download and install Microsoft uninstaller to fix an entirely
different program problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated - thanks!

 

[Eric A.]

This is certainly an odd issue. Office 2007 actually cannot be installed per
user.

Please try this. Uninstall office 2007 through add/remove programs. Then
follow the steps at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/928218/en-us
to competely remove an orphaned reg keys and files and then reinstall.

 

[Adb]

Hi Eric

I have had a similar experience with Office 2007. I'm running Vista 64
Ultimate and Office 2007. I've had Office 2007 running fine in the past until
after I uninstalled Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and Installed Visual Studio
2008 RTM.

Anyway, I've tried uninstalling Office & re-installing as well as tried the
Uninstallation process from kb 928218 still without any success.

Other things I've also tried (without success):
a) Granting my non-admin account admin rights to the whole Office subtree
b) copying/restoring registry settings from an admin account to non-admin
account

The only way I'm able to run any Office 2007 app without the message is by
turning UAC off and elevating my usual account to Administrator.

Could you please help me as I'm running out of ideas and can't seem to find
any help from reading other posts...

 

[MPK]

I'm having the exact same problem and have tried everything (including what
is mentioned by Adb above). I have Vista Ultimate and Office 2007. It all
happened when I ran the Windows Installer CleanUp utility, which completely
corrupted my profile somehow. Had to create a brand new profile, but in that
one I cannot run any office application, except with UAC turned off.

Please help