Office 2000 Wants Install CD

[Toni]

Strange situation - a WinXP Pro SP3 laptop with Office 2000 installed, with all updates,
every time I click on Word, PowerPoint. etc. I get the Install dialog that asks for the
MS Office CD. After clicking on Cancel a few times, the Office application finally comes
up.

I don't have the install CD with me. All Office 2000 applications seem to run fine
except for this annoying glitch every time I start an Office 2000 application.

Can anyone please tell me how to fix this??

Thanks!!!

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Have you tried inserting the disk?

 

[LD55ZRA]

You missed this vital sentence:

<I don't have the install CD with me.>

Perhaps you should take extra special care in reading the messages
before jumping in and answering something that is not asked for.

hth

Have you tried inserting the disk?

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[JoAnn Paules]

Let me rephrase my response: Can you get someone to send you the disk?

 

[Toni]

No.

I'm managing a laptop I set up years ago for my sister I'm visiting. The install CD is
at my home, 230 miles away. When I drive home, I can't mail the CD back to my sister
because she might use it as a coaster instead, or insert it upside-down, or spill tomato
sauce on it, or smear it with fingerprints (this is why *I* am the person managing all
the family computers It's been really really simple and flawless until this
happened...

I remember reading about this problem some years ago. I think it's caused by an Office
update from Microsoft Update? Anyway, I was really hoping there was a solution.

Toni

Let me rephrase my response: Can you get someone to send you the disk?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"

Strange situation - a WinXP Pro SP3 laptop with Office 2000 installed, with all
updates, every time I click on Word, PowerPoint. etc. I get the Install dialog that
asks for the MS Office CD. After clicking on Cancel a few times, the Office
application finally comes up.

I don't have the install CD with me. All Office 2000 applications seem to run fine
except for this annoying glitch every time I start an Office 2000 application.

Can anyone please tell me how to fix this??

Thanks!!!

 

[LD55ZRA]

No.

I'm managing a laptop I set up years ago for my sister I'm visiting. The install CD is
at my home, 230 miles away. When I drive home, I can't mail the CD back to my sister
because she might use it as a coaster instead, or insert it upside-down, or spill tomato
sauce on it, or smear it with fingerprints (this is why *I* am the person managing all
the family computers It's been really really simple and flawless until this
happened...

I remember reading about this problem some years ago. I think it's caused by an Office
update from Microsoft Update? Anyway, I was really hoping there was a solution.

Yes it is to do with Updates and applies to all Microsoft Office
Updates except that with effect from Office 2003, the installation
creates a MSOCache (a hidden folder) in which all the necessary
installation files are kept for updates and for "Detect & Repair"
purposes. With Office 2000, this "technology" wasn't around and
so people decided to create backups of their CDs and keep next to
their system for anybody to help themselves. This was too much
for Microsoft to stomach and so the new technique was implemented
in Office 2003 et seq!

Could you not copy the CDs and send it to her with the serial
number inscribed on them with a permanent marker? Surely you can
do it! The alternative is to search on the net and download from
PirateBay.

hth

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FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL LD55ZRA
OR ITS ASSOCIATES BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER
INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF
BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF LD55ZRA OR ITS
ASSOCIATES HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH
DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR
LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL
DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY.

Copyright LD55ZRA 2010.