Hi Durandal,
If you have Norton Antivirus on your PC then in that program turn off the Office Plug in from the Miscellaneous settings from
Norton.
From your description it's the dropdown galleries that are blank rather than the templates dialog in File(Office Button)=>New?
If you have been using Office 2007 prior to Beta 2 then the templates from earlier versions, often even if updated during Beta 2,
are now in a 'mixed version' state and can't be used.
Office stores a 'clean' copy of Building Blocks.dotx and the user (modified) copy as well.
After shutting down all Office apps, use Start=>Search for
Building Blocks.dotx . You should get at least two being found.
Recycle the one found in your 'username' folder, i.e.
C:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks\
For example if you are on Windows XP Home Edition and signed in under 'Owner' then the <user> area from Windows Explorer where
you'd recycle the Building Blocks.dotx file would be
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks\
(Renaming the .dotx file doesn't work BTW).
When you then start Word or other Office app again you should get a 'fresh' Building Blocks.dotx. It will have the new content from
Beta2TR, and the dropdown Ribbon galleries should work. You won't, however, have any custom autotext or other entries you may have
stored in the old one.
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after restarting following the B2TR installation, opening MS Word brings up a
dialog box saying "The Office Open XML file Building Blocks.dotx cannot be
opened because there are problems with the contents." There are no details
available for the error. I found that all the templates in Word had
disappeared. No equations, text boxes, cover pages, headers, footers, etc.
all of it is gone!
I uninstalled Office, did a clean install, and the templates were back again. Installing B2TR produced the same results; no
templates. Help please!>>
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I hope this helped you,
Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP
LINKS to the 2007 Office System
1. Free MS Office 2007 book from MS Press, 213 pages:
http://microsoft.com/learning/office2007/default.mspx#booksfrommspress
2.. Office 2007 Beta 2 Online Test Drive, Downloadable beta,
e-learning courses, doucmentation and movies:
http://microsoft.com/office/preview
3. Send 2007 Office System Beta 2 feedback directly to the MS Office 2007 product team with this feedback tool:
http://sas.office.microsoft.com/
4. Try the 2007 OfficeOnline preview website , without Office2007
a. Install the ActiveX access control
http://office.microsoft.com/search/redir.aspx?AssetID=XT101650581033
b. then visit
http://officebeta.iponet.net