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I AM FURIOUS WTH MS's QUIRKS
I bought MS2000 Standard-Upgrade about 6 mos ago...brand new,
perhaps OEM..can't remember! It advertised that MS WORKS was a valid program to use for upgrading! Wrong. It would not accept MS WORKS 4.0, perhaps because or the year??? So I had to reload MS OFFIVE 97 PRO. Valid OK, but..... when I loaded MS OFFICE 2000 today, I got an error message, "Cannot Access File.....D:\ "whatever" from the CD. RETRY? I clicked yes. NOPE! CANCEL...my only option~ Is the CD bad, or is this a quirk, or can I get a link to contact someone for a new disk, or is there cure right here on my desktop/ ????????????? I think my computer might hate me, ya think? Thanks for any help I can get. Mike m p g a t m s n d o t c o m |
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Office *2000*? New? Considering that's been upgraded 3 times since it's
release I hope you didn't pay much, if anything for it. Where did you get this disk? I'm thinking it could be bogus. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Mikie" wrote in message ... I bought MS2000 Standard-Upgrade about 6 mos ago...brand new, perhaps OEM..can't remember! It advertised that MS WORKS was a valid program to use for upgrading! Wrong. It would not accept MS WORKS 4.0, perhaps because or the year??? So I had to reload MS OFFIVE 97 PRO. Valid OK, but..... when I loaded MS OFFICE 2000 today, I got an error message, "Cannot Access File.....D:\ "whatever" from the CD. RETRY? I clicked yes. NOPE! CANCEL...my only option~ Is the CD bad, or is this a quirk, or can I get a link to contact someone for a new disk, or is there cure right here on my desktop/ ????????????? I think my computer might hate me, ya think? Thanks for any help I can get. Mike m p g a t m s n d o t c o m |
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I AM FURIOUS WTH MS's QUIRKS
Mikie
Office 2000 is not supported anymore. What is the exact error message aside from D:\ "whatever" How are you trying to Upgrade your Office 97?? You can start the install of Office 2000 just by itself . No need to install Office 97. When the install starts and it asks you for a qualifying product then you insert the Office 97 as proof. Uninstall Office 97 and start the Office 200 Upgrade as I posted above. Also from where did you get the Office 2000 CD from. What does it show on the label of the Off 2000 CD -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Mikie" wrote in message ... I bought MS2000 Standard-Upgrade about 6 mos ago...brand new, perhaps OEM..can't remember! It advertised that MS WORKS was a valid program to use for upgrading! Wrong. It would not accept MS WORKS 4.0, perhaps because or the year??? So I had to reload MS OFFIVE 97 PRO. Valid OK, but..... when I loaded MS OFFICE 2000 today, I got an error message, "Cannot Access File.....D:\ "whatever" from the CD. RETRY? I clicked yes. NOPE! CANCEL...my only option~ Is the CD bad, or is this a quirk, or can I get a link to contact someone for a new disk, or is there cure right here on my desktop/ ????????????? I think my computer might hate me, ya think? Thanks for any help I can get. Mike m p g a t m s n d o t c o m |
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Peter Foldes wrote:
Mikie Office 2000 is not supported anymore. That's strange, I get updates from Office Updates. I wonder why. Alias |
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I AM FURIOUS WTH MS's QUIRKS
Alias
You are correct and that is true . But it is only Security Updates which is always available for out of support OS's -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Alias" wrote in message ... Peter Foldes wrote: Mikie Office 2000 is not supported anymore. That's strange, I get updates from Office Updates. I wonder why. Alias |
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Peter Foldes wrote:
Alias You are correct and that is true . But it is only Security Updates which is always available for out of support OS's Peter Actually, you can get support from Usenet. Alias "Alias" wrote in message ... Peter Foldes wrote: Mikie Office 2000 is not supported anymore. That's strange, I get updates from Office Updates. I wonder why. Alias |
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I AM FURIOUS WTH MS's QUIRKS
Hi Mike,
MS Office 2000 upgrade editions weren't available as OEM products and there were some issues with having it recognize MS Works, but usually it was MS Works 6. You may want to try contacting MS as described here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210437 if you're using MS Works as the qualifying product, but as you already have MS Office 97, the Office 2000 upgrade version should recognize either an installed copy of that or it should recognize the CD/diskette for that version during setup for upgrade purposes. Like new car models, when a new one comes out, Microsoft basically stops making 'old models' (in this case CDs) for the older Office models when the next Office model (Office XP/2002 in the case of Office 2000) comes out. See if you can copy the CD you have to your hard drive and install from there. ================= "Mikie" wrote in message ... I bought MS2000 Standard-Upgrade about 6 mos ago...brand new, perhaps OEM..can't remember! It advertised that MS WORKS was a valid program to use for upgrading! Wrong. It would not accept MS WORKS 4.0, perhaps because or the year??? So I had to reload MS OFFIVE 97 PRO. Valid OK, but..... when I loaded MS OFFICE 2000 today, I got an error message, "Cannot Access File.....D:\ "whatever" from the CD. RETRY? I clicked yes. NOPE! CANCEL...my only option~ Is the CD bad, or is this a quirk, or can I get a link to contact someone for a new disk, or is there cure right here on my desktop/ ????????????? I think my computer might hate me, ya think? Thanks for any help I can get. Mike -- Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP |
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