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How do you install help for excel 4.0 macros in Office 2003?
The download center says to download Excel 2000 Help File: Running Excel 4.0
Macros, but when I try to runit it says that no Windows 2000 installation is detected (logical, since I'm running 2003). The run then terminates. |
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I guess they still haven't fixed this bug in the installer package. The help
file for XL2000 that I have works OK with XL2002. I don't know about 2003, but if you post your email address, I can sent it to you. When you get it, search for the existing (stub) file of the same name (I think it's XLMACRO.CHM) and replace that file with the full file. On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 00:43:02 -0800, "Macliam" wrote: The download center says to download Excel 2000 Help File: Running Excel 4.0 Macros, but when I try to runit it says that no Windows 2000 installation is detected (logical, since I'm running 2003). The run then terminates. |
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Are these files you're downloading named:
Macrofun.exe Macro97.exe If yes, I could right click on each and open them in Winzip and extract manually. http://www.winzip.com Has a try before you buy policy. (and maybe your favorite zip program will open them, too.) Macliam wrote: The download center says to download Excel 2000 Help File: Running Excel 4.0 Macros, but when I try to runit it says that no Windows 2000 installation is detected (logical, since I'm running 2003). The run then terminates. -- Dave Peterson |
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Certainly not the last one. The format for Excel 2000 and up is CHM, and the
file is XLMACRO.CHM. On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:56:52 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote: Are these files you're downloading named: Macrofun.exe Macro97.exe If yes, I could right click on each and open them in Winzip and extract manually. http://www.winzip.com Has a try before you buy policy. (and maybe your favorite zip program will open them, too.) Macliam wrote: The download center says to download Excel 2000 Help File: Running Excel 4.0 Macros, but when I try to runit it says that no Windows 2000 installation is detected (logical, since I'm running 2003). The run then terminates. |
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I think you meant the first one (macrofun.exe). (But I see your point.)
The files contained in the last version of macro97.exe that I downloaded are named: readme.txt xlmacr8.hlp I could extract these using winzip. But with macrofun.exe, the files are named: launcher.exe xlmacro.msi (I didn't try extracting them--my error. When I double clicked on the *.msi file, I got that error message.) I booted up my work pc (xl2k) and extracted that XLMACRO.CHM file. Except for being different formats (Macrofun.hlp vs XLMACRO.CHM), the content (of the couple of functions I looked at) seemed the same. Do you know if they differ in substance? Maybe macro97.exe would be sufficient. Myrna Larson wrote: Certainly not the last one. The format for Excel 2000 and up is CHM, and the file is XLMACRO.CHM. On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:56:52 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote: Are these files you're downloading named: Macrofun.exe Macro97.exe If yes, I could right click on each and open them in Winzip and extract manually. http://www.winzip.com Has a try before you buy policy. (and maybe your favorite zip program will open them, too.) Macliam wrote: The download center says to download Excel 2000 Help File: Running Excel 4.0 Macros, but when I try to runit it says that no Windows 2000 installation is detected (logical, since I'm running 2003). The run then terminates. -- Dave Peterson |
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I meant that the obvious Excel 97 one wasn't the current file.
I think they differ only in format. Actually the old Hlp style should work, but perhaps not from within Excel, only by clicking on it from Explorer. On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:17:53 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote: I think you meant the first one (macrofun.exe). (But I see your point.) The files contained in the last version of macro97.exe that I downloaded are named: readme.txt xlmacr8.hlp I could extract these using winzip. But with macrofun.exe, the files are named: launcher.exe xlmacro.msi (I didn't try extracting them--my error. When I double clicked on the *.msi file, I got that error message.) I booted up my work pc (xl2k) and extracted that XLMACRO.CHM file. Except for being different formats (Macrofun.hlp vs XLMACRO.CHM), the content (of the couple of functions I looked at) seemed the same. Do you know if they differ in substance? Maybe macro97.exe would be sufficient. Myrna Larson wrote: Certainly not the last one. The format for Excel 2000 and up is CHM, and the file is XLMACRO.CHM. On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:56:52 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote: Are these files you're downloading named: Macrofun.exe Macro97.exe If yes, I could right click on each and open them in Winzip and extract manually. http://www.winzip.com Has a try before you buy policy. (and maybe your favorite zip program will open them, too.) Macliam wrote: The download center says to download Excel 2000 Help File: Running Excel 4.0 Macros, but when I try to runit it says that no Windows 2000 installation is detected (logical, since I'm running 2003). The run then terminates. |
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I can be a patoot, huh??!!!
vbg And thanks for the confirmation about the content. Myrna Larson wrote: I meant that the obvious Excel 97 one wasn't the current file. -- Dave Peterson |
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I don't know. What's a patoot????
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:41:04 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote: I can be a patoot, huh??!!! vbg And thanks for the confirmation about the content. Myrna Larson wrote: I meant that the obvious Excel 97 one wasn't the current file. |
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As in a horse's patoot.
http://www.xoup.net/faq/patootie.txt Myrna Larson wrote: I don't know. What's a patoot???? On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:41:04 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote: I can be a patoot, huh??!!! vbg And thanks for the confirmation about the content. Myrna Larson wrote: I meant that the obvious Excel 97 one wasn't the current file. -- Dave Peterson |
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Oh, THAT kind! vbg
On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 19:28:16 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote: As in a horse's patoot. http://www.xoup.net/faq/patootie.txt Myrna Larson wrote: I don't know. What's a patoot???? On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:41:04 -0600, Dave Peterson wrote: I can be a patoot, huh??!!! vbg And thanks for the confirmation about the content. Myrna Larson wrote: I meant that the obvious Excel 97 one wasn't the current file. |
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