The feature you are trying to use...

[Steve Coan]

On my wife's computer she gets (all of a sudden) that "The feature you are
tryint to use is not on the CD-ROM..." message when she tries to run Excel
2002. MS has said this is because they tried this thing with "feature
groups" so if something in a feature group has an incorrect registry setting
or something, then the whole group wants to "reinstall" by requiring the
disc. Problem is that her DVD drive has died since I installed Office XP.
She really doesn't need the DVD drive right now either, just Excel, which
has been fully installed and working fine for over a year. Is there a way
around this? Is there a way to tell the thing, "We don't care what feature
is not installed--just run Excel because that's all we care about"?

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Two ways to re-install the whole damn thing all over again:

1) Create a home network between your PC/Laptop which has a CD/DVD drive
working and using your wife's PC try to use your CD and install from
there. Alternatively, copy the whole Office CD onto your PC and using
your Wife's Pc double-click on setup.exe on your PC in Office directory
which you copied/created.

2) Buy an external USB CD/DVD drive and run from it!

When you install it this time make sure you have selected COMPLETE so
that no CDs are required again.

Hope this proves useful.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Two ways to re-install the whole damn thing all over again:

1) Create a home network between your PC/Laptop which has a CD/DVD drive
working and using your wife's PC try to use your CD and install from
there. Alternatively, copy the whole Office CD onto your PC and using
your Wife's Pc double-click on setup.exe on your PC in Office directory
which you copied/created.

2) Buy an external USB CD/DVD drive and run from it!

When you install it this time make sure you have selected COMPLETE so
that no CDs are required again.

Hope this proves useful.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Two ways to re-install the whole damn thing all over again:

1) Create a home network between your PC/Laptop which has a CD/DVD drive
working and using your wife's PC try to use your CD and install from
there. Alternatively, copy the whole Office CD onto your PC and using
your Wife's Pc double-click on setup.exe on your PC in Office directory
which you copied/created.

2) Buy an external USB CD/DVD drive and run from it!

When you install it this time make sure you have selected COMPLETE so
that no CDs are required again.

Hope this proves useful.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Two ways to re-install the whole damn thing all over again:

1) Create a home network between your PC/Laptop which has a CD/DVD drive
working and using your wife's PC try to use your CD and install from
there. Alternatively, copy the whole Office CD onto your PC and using
your Wife's Pc double-click on setup.exe on your PC in Office directory
which you copied/created.

2) Buy an external USB CD/DVD drive and run from it!

When you install it this time make sure you have selected COMPLETE so
that no CDs are required again.

Hope this proves useful.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Two ways to re-install the whole damn thing all over again:

1) Create a home network between your PC/Laptop which has a CD/DVD drive
working and using your wife's PC try to use your CD and install from
there. Alternatively, copy the whole Office CD onto your PC and using
your Wife's Pc double-click on setup.exe on your PC in Office directory
which you copied/created.

2) Buy an external USB CD/DVD drive and run from it!

When you install it this time make sure you have selected COMPLETE so
that no CDs are required again.

Hope this proves useful.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Two ways to re-install the whole damn thing all over again:

1) Create a home network between your PC/Laptop which has a CD/DVD drive
working and using your wife's PC try to use your CD and install from
there. Alternatively, copy the whole Office CD onto your PC and using
your Wife's Pc double-click on setup.exe on your PC in Office directory
which you copied/created.

2) Buy an external USB CD/DVD drive and run from it!

When you install it this time make sure you have selected COMPLETE so
that no CDs are required again.

Hope this proves useful.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Two ways to re-install the whole damn thing all over again:

1) Create a home network between your PC/Laptop which has a CD/DVD drive
working and using your wife's PC try to use your CD and install from
there. Alternatively, copy the whole Office CD onto your PC and using
your Wife's Pc double-click on setup.exe on your PC in Office directory
which you copied/created.

2) Buy an external USB CD/DVD drive and run from it!

When you install it this time make sure you have selected COMPLETE so
that no CDs are required again.

Hope this proves useful.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Two ways to re-install the whole damn thing all over again:

1) Create a home network between your PC/Laptop which has a CD/DVD drive
working and using your wife's PC try to use your CD and install from
there. Alternatively, copy the whole Office CD onto your PC and using
your Wife's Pc double-click on setup.exe on your PC in Office directory
which you copied/created.

2) Buy an external USB CD/DVD drive and run from it!

When you install it this time make sure you have selected COMPLETE so
that no CDs are required again.

Hope this proves useful.

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Two ways to re-install the whole damn thing all over again:

1) Create a home network between your PC/Laptop which has a CD/DVD drive
working and using your wife's PC try to use your CD and install from
there. Alternatively, copy the whole Office CD onto your PC and using
your Wife's Pc double-click on setup.exe on your PC in Office directory
which you copied/created.

2) Buy an external USB CD/DVD drive and run from it!

When you install it this time make sure you have selected COMPLETE so
that no CDs are required again.

Hope this proves useful.