office documents won't "load"

[Beth Melton]

DDE should be enabled for Excel.

You may want to use the /regserver switch again to recreate the file
associations for Excel since it looks like the default has been
modified.

This time in the Run command, click the Browse button and navigate to
the executable for each application so the full path is included. Then
place the /regserver switch at the end of the path outside the quotes.
For Excel it would be something like:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

I noticed that the "advanced" settings for edit and open for the
file type
.doc after re-install is

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde

the dde message is: [REM _DDE_Direct][FileOpen("%1")]

for .xls it's:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e
[open("%1")]

these are slightly different for each function... open, edit, new,
etc...

I'm really at a loss here... I don't think we've hit on it so far...
other
ideas would be most welcome !!

Thanks... t

ahhhhhhh, crud.

All Office apps closed, updated Acrobat, and the problem's back?

Uninstalling Acrobat didn't resolve it again? Hm. Wonder if there
are some
stray registry entries causing probs.

Oh, maybe see if you have any stray "PDFM" files around. For
example, I have
Acrobat 6 here, and there are a number of those files in C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat 6.0\

I have PDFMaker.PPA and PDFMakerA.PPA (powerpoint add-in),
PDFMaker.DOT and
PDFMakerA.DOT (word), PDFMaker.XLA, PDFMExcel.DLL,
PDFMPowerPoint.DLL,
PDFMWord.DLL, PDFMOutlook.dll, AdobePDFMakerX.dll and
AdobePDFMakerX.tlb.

Try renaming those to <whatever file name>.PPX or .DXX, etc.

Oh, you know, scratch that. Following the manual removal
instructions at
Adobe would be a better thing to do.

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[email protected]@.ef9c2cb

Also check the Adobe KB -- perhaps there's something relevant to
your
version of Acrobat and Office there.
http://busca.adobe.com/search?site=...trict=Adobe_com_Train&as_epq=Acrobat&q=Office

 

[Beth Melton]

What you should try next is to make sure officeav.dll is actually
unregistered using the command Echo provided.

It doesn't matter if you moved the file or if NAV isn't installed. It
could still be registered and as a result it is being utilized.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[Echo S]

What you should try next is to make sure officeav.dll is actually
unregistered using the command Echo provided.

Oh, that command I stole from you a million years ago?

Echo

 

[t]

WELL NOW...

It's fixed... registering with "browse" seemed to to the trick... and the
NAV dll failed so it wasn't registered... a combination of both perhaps...

NAV is TOAST !!! I've always thought of it as good, but too much of a
resource hog... can't wait for MS to get their's out there !!!

THANKS AGAIN TO ALL WHO'VE BEEN WATCHING AND HELPED SO MUCH !!!

r

DDE should be enabled for Excel.

You may want to use the /regserver switch again to recreate the file
associations for Excel since it looks like the default has been
modified.

This time in the Run command, click the Browse button and navigate to
the executable for each application so the full path is included. Then
place the /regserver switch at the end of the path outside the quotes.
For Excel it would be something like:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

I noticed that the "advanced" settings for edit and open for the
file type
.doc after re-install is

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde

the dde message is: [REM _DDE_Direct][FileOpen("%1")]

for .xls it's:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e
[open("%1")]

these are slightly different for each function... open, edit, new,
etc...

I'm really at a loss here... I don't think we've hit on it so far...
other
ideas would be most welcome !!

Thanks... t

t wrote:
Well Guess What... I had the same idead... update adobe... I
did...
all office apps closed...

The problem's back <groans>... so I uninstalled acrobat
completely,
rebuilt the icon cache, deleted the .xls and .doc file
associations
and rebuilt those...

and STILL the problem persists... Nothing's making sense here...
I
don't have any other plug-ins or add-ons installed... any other
thoughts ???

ahhhhhhh, crud.

All Office apps closed, updated Acrobat, and the problem's back?

Uninstalling Acrobat didn't resolve it again? Hm. Wonder if there
are some
stray registry entries causing probs.

Oh, maybe see if you have any stray "PDFM" files around. For
example, I have
Acrobat 6 here, and there are a number of those files in C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat 6.0\

I have PDFMaker.PPA and PDFMakerA.PPA (powerpoint add-in),
PDFMaker.DOT and
PDFMakerA.DOT (word), PDFMaker.XLA, PDFMExcel.DLL,
PDFMPowerPoint.DLL,
PDFMWord.DLL, PDFMOutlook.dll, AdobePDFMakerX.dll and
AdobePDFMakerX.tlb.

Try renaming those to <whatever file name>.PPX or .DXX, etc.

Oh, you know, scratch that. Following the manual removal
instructions at
Adobe would be a better thing to do.

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[email protected]@.ef9c2cb

Also check the Adobe KB -- perhaps there's something relevant to
your
version of Acrobat and Office there.
http://busca.adobe.com/search?site=...trict=Adobe_com_Train&as_epq=Acrobat&q=Office

 

[Echo S]

Oh, thank GAWD!

Don't go updating Acrobat or anything now, please. (LOL!)

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

WELL NOW...

It's fixed... registering with "browse" seemed to to the trick... and the
NAV dll failed so it wasn't registered... a combination of both perhaps...

NAV is TOAST !!! I've always thought of it as good, but too much of a
resource hog... can't wait for MS to get their's out there !!!

THANKS AGAIN TO ALL WHO'VE BEEN WATCHING AND HELPED SO MUCH !!!

r

DDE should be enabled for Excel.

You may want to use the /regserver switch again to recreate the file
associations for Excel since it looks like the default has been
modified.

This time in the Run command, click the Browse button and navigate to
the executable for each application so the full path is included. Then
place the /regserver switch at the end of the path outside the quotes.
For Excel it would be something like:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /regserver

Note the space before the forward slash.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

I noticed that the "advanced" settings for edit and open for the
file type
.doc after re-install is

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE" /n /dde

the dde message is: [REM _DDE_Direct][FileOpen("%1")]

for .xls it's:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE" /e
[open("%1")]

these are slightly different for each function... open, edit, new,
etc...

I'm really at a loss here... I don't think we've hit on it so far...
other
ideas would be most welcome !!

Thanks... t

:

t wrote:
Well Guess What... I had the same idead... update adobe... I
did...
all office apps closed...

The problem's back <groans>... so I uninstalled acrobat
completely,
rebuilt the icon cache, deleted the .xls and .doc file
associations
and rebuilt those...

and STILL the problem persists... Nothing's making sense here...
I
don't have any other plug-ins or add-ons installed... any other
thoughts ???

ahhhhhhh, crud.

All Office apps closed, updated Acrobat, and the problem's back?

Uninstalling Acrobat didn't resolve it again? Hm. Wonder if there
are some
stray registry entries causing probs.

Oh, maybe see if you have any stray "PDFM" files around. For
example, I have
Acrobat 6 here, and there are a number of those files in C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat 6.0\

I have PDFMaker.PPA and PDFMakerA.PPA (powerpoint add-in),
PDFMaker.DOT and
PDFMakerA.DOT (word), PDFMaker.XLA, PDFMExcel.DLL,
PDFMPowerPoint.DLL,
PDFMWord.DLL, PDFMOutlook.dll, AdobePDFMakerX.dll and
AdobePDFMakerX.tlb.

Try renaming those to <whatever file name>.PPX or .DXX, etc.

Oh, you know, scratch that. Following the manual removal
instructions at
Adobe would be a better thing to do.

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[email protected]@.ef9c2cb

Also check the Adobe KB -- perhaps there's something relevant to
your
version of Acrobat and Office there.
http://busca.adobe.com/search?site=...trict=Adobe_com_Train&as_epq=Acrobat&q=Office

 

[Beth Melton]

That's good news.

I'd say it was recreating your file associations that did the trick -
that's generally the cause of the problem you described. It's
interesting that it didn't work using the executable file name only.
Do you by chance have another version of Office installed? If so that
could be why this was an issue. Otherwise I'm wondering if Adobe is
once more the cause of another Office issue...

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/

 

[Nick]

Peter, I think I'm encountering the same problem. What could I do if MS Works
is also installed?