'installing New MS Word Feature' please fix!! (this is absurd)

~MS Office (Word & Excel) randomly starts with the message "installing new MS
Word Feature" -- This requires hunting down the original disk (~20 Minutes)
before it can install.

I spent $30 with your help line to fix this PROBLEM. The 'fix' lasted for
~10 days -- now it's back!! This is a very, very bad feature!!! Even the
message is absurd 'new feature' what is this new feature? -- what if I don't
want the new feature?

Using: MS Office Professional (Enterprise edition 2003) + Windows XP with
SR-2

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After furious head scratching, Dale-very-upset asked:

| ~MS Office (Word & Excel) randomly starts with the message
| "installing new MS Word Feature" -- This requires hunting down the
| original disk (~20 Minutes) before it can install.
|
| I spent $30 with your help line to fix this PROBLEM. The 'fix' lasted
| for ~10 days -- now it's back!! This is a very, very bad feature!!!
| Even the message is absurd 'new feature' what is this new feature? --
| what if I don't want the new feature?
|
| Using: MS Office Professional (Enterprise edition 2003) + Windows XP
| with SR-2
|
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| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
| button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
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|
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