My office says it is not installed for this user? How do I fix t.

I have microsoft office but it says it is not installed for this user. How
do I change that? Please help...

What version of Office? What version of Windows? Do other users on this
computer get the same error message? Did you install Office from the
original CD, or did you somehow copy it over from another computer or another
hard drive? See if this article applies to your situation:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302846 "You receive an 'Office program has
not been installed for the current user' error message when you start one of
the Office XP programs". If not, write back with much more information.

"Veena" wrote:

I have microsoft office but it says it is not installed for this user. How
do I change that? Please help...

I have this same problem. XP Home, sp1, Office 2000. Actually, Word and Excel
work just fine, and it's Access and Power Point that have the 'not installed
for the current user' error.

All programs were working fine until this happened, out of nowhere.

Office ahd been originally installed from the CD.
I tried reinstalling Office and that didn't work.

I am the only user on this computer; it is not networked or set up for more
than one user, so 'current user' is meaningless since I am the sole user and
there's never been any other (it's my own home computer).

There seem to be two Knowledge Base articles about this problem, but one is
for Office XP and the other for 2002, neither of which I have.

thanks!


"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

What version of Office? What version of Windows? Do other users on this
computer get the same error message? Did you install Office from the
original CD, or did you somehow copy it over from another computer or another
hard drive? See if this article applies to your situation:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302846 "You receive an 'Office program has
not been installed for the current user' error message when you start one of
the Office XP programs". If not, write back with much more information.

"Veena" wrote:

I have microsoft office but it says it is not installed for this user. How
do I change that? Please help...

Good that I found this post. I was to post another one for this problem
It so happened for me that -
a. I was downloading and installing Office XP SP2.
At that time the application asked for the CD which had proplus.msi
I didnt have it then - didn't read the instructions properly earlier that
requires the presence of the CD - so I canceled the install
b. there was a series of other events i went through not necessarily related
to this install but relating to the registry where I deleted a couple of
entries for Zonealarm and Weatherbug - while deleting them, I did not think
it would impact office either. Moreover, now I don't exactly remember which
others I deleted if I did
c. after these events I ran office and it gave me this error that Office is
not installed for the current user
Current user is a user name that was installed on the laptop with
administrator rights. So i did not know why it would give an error saying
that 'office program' is not installed for the current user.
d. somewhere on the net, I saw that the application has this problem while
updating MSOffice SP and it needs the 'original CD' which has the proplus.msi.
So I called for the original CD from my brother who had installed office on
this laptop and reinstalled it after removing it completely as per a
knowledgebase article i saw on MS about Office 2002
e. I now have an administrator user on which account Office works well. But
this particular user that has the administrator rights, that user cannot
start any office application at all. Always pops up the message of the
application not being installed.

IS there a solution to this other than reinstalling WinXP again so that the
registry is restored with the original Windows Installer settings?
The problem seems to be that some registry of Windows Installer got deleted,
and I had not backed up the registry before I 'experimented foolishly' with
it.

So does anyone have any solution to this than the final reinstall OS option?
or is there something i missed out trying?
The KB article listed here talks about ME and 98 both of which I do not have.
Thanks for your time and hope I can get this cracking. Would be a great
achievement and knowledge sharing if I know how to work this out.
This seems to be a very common problem though the cause might not be the
same all the time.

Thanks in advance again

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

What version of Office? What version of Windows? Do other users on this
computer get the same error message? Did you install Office from the
original CD, or did you somehow copy it over from another computer or another
hard drive? See if this article applies to your situation:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=302846 "You receive an 'Office program has
not been installed for the current user' error message when you start one of
the Office XP programs". If not, write back with much more information.

"Veena" wrote:

I have microsoft office but it says it is not installed for this user. How
do I change that? Please help...