Office XP Standard Disappearance

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alans

Hello. I used Office XP for serveral years on the same PC, but recently all
the Office programs apparently disappeared from the PC. They are not under
the program listing and I don't see them if I look under add/remove programs
either. I have both Defender and NIS up to date and running normally. Looking
in the documents folder I see previous documents but now they are in text
files as opposed to Word files, for example.
Has anyone seen this before that could suggest a course of action to regain
functionality of the Office programs? I was thinking of uninstalling and
reinstalling Office (I have the disc), but obviously I can't run uninstall
from Windows. I was also thinking of running system restore. Are there
advantages in either direction in terms of being able to use previous files
that are still on the hard drive?
Thanks.
 
D

DL

Does any one else have access to your PC?

Is anything listed in the default OfficeXp folder?
\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10
eg any .exe files

If you pop the office cd in it will give you the option to install, or
repair any existing installation.
 
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alans

My wife and son hava access, but they tell me they haven't messed with any
programs. I believe that.
I didn't find anything in the Office folder except one usppre.rnl file which
is a couple years old. So you'd recommend just going ahead with a repair or
reinstall? I suppose that I could reopen and change the text files to Word
, but would there be a way to salvage old Excel files as well, for example?
Alan
 
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DL

If Office / Word has been removed then the word files will be readable in
notepad

Its Add/Remove dialogue that has been messed with.
Reinstall Office, all user created files will remain, ie word docs, excel
files.
Uninstalling /Installing office has no impact on data files
 
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alans

Thanks for the recommendations. Before I go ahead and reinstall Office, is
there any way of determining if the suite was actually deleted by Microsoft?
A friend suggested that was possible since MS implemented the software
verification. It shouldn't be an issue since we purchased the Office suite,
but thought I'd ask.
 
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Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Alan,

The MS Office software validation process does not uninstall software, it merely identifies possible problems with the
validity/license status of the installed software.

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Thanks for the recommendations. Before I go ahead and reinstall Office, is
there any way of determining if the suite was actually deleted by Microsoft?
A friend suggested that was possible since MS implemented the software
verification. It shouldn't be an issue since we purchased the Office suite,
but thought I'd ask.
--
Alan >>
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Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*
 
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