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Miscrsoft is losing me real fast!!!
I found the proofing tools for Office 2007. They are ,rar files. I put them
in their own folder on the C drive. Rar files are compressed. When I tried to install Office 2007, and went to the folder location, Office 2007 still refused them. Because they are compressed? Do I need to unzip them? I have a ..rar tool. Let me know if I am on the right track, or what ever other steps I can take to get Office 2007 working so that I can then try to get Outlook 2007 working. In the meantime, I am using Office XP, where everything works except for Outlook, which can access an Outlook Today folder list. If I could get that fixed, I would be satisfied. I cannot understand why everything one needs to install Office 2007 is not on the installation disk. RSM RSM "Richard Mitnick" wrote: Brian- First, I need to be able to re-install Office 2007, and I keep getting stopped with an error message that says that the installation can not find Proofing.en-us\Proof.es\Proof.cab, and, then, if I say skip it, the same message but the suffix of the file or folder is .msi. Doing s search on this file name, I found this same misery all over the internet, even among people who went to a store and bought Office 2007 in a box. So, I need to get past this, to have the proofing tools, and to get an installation. Only then can I begin to look at Outlook. I am told that I never needed to uninstall all of Office to uninstall Outlook; but I looked for that option and could not find it. "Brian Tillman" wrote: Richard Mitnick wrote: I had a problem with Outlook, I came to this forum for help, someone gave me three very specific tasks, and I am sure he was correct, as far as the tasks went. But they did not do the trick. Did you return to that thread and say what went wrong so that those who contributed originally could suggest alternative solutions? So, foolishly, I decided to uninstall Outlook, which apparently meant uninstalling all of Office, and then re-installing, Wrong. You do a Change, expand the Office installation tree, click Outlook, and change the option from "Run from my computer" to "Not available". Finish the wizard and Outlook will be removed. Before I re-installed, I ran a registry cleaner and re-booted. This could lead to problems. Registry cleaners often remove too much. A few minutes into the installation, Office balked at not finding some sort of "proof.en-us...\msi", and another similar file. I took that to a search and found people all over a whole bunch of forums with the same probelms, these proofs apparently not being on the installation disk. Is your install an upgrade or a full retail version? I can imagine a registry cleaner could remove indications that a prior version was installed so that an update version can't detect it and would then fail the installation. So, I decided to install Office XP. That installed fine, Word, Excel, Access, but not Outlook, which is where this all started. Outlook installed but can not find its normal folder list with Email, Contacts, etc, and nothing I do seems to be able to ressurrect that. Either it installed or it didn't. Not installing is not the same as installing but unable to run. If I can not get this resolved, I am gone, to something else, I am not sure what, maybe Open Office, I am just not going to stay here unless my porblems can be resolved. OpenOffice doesn't have an Outlook replacement. Using OpenOffice won't help in this particular instance. I do not mneed Outlook for mail, TBird handles mail beautifully. I need Outlook for its Contact lists, which i use at home and at work. Tell us the exact errors and maybe we can help. You've given no information with which troubleshooting can happen. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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Miscrsoft is losing me real fast!!!
Richard Mitnick wrote:
I found the proofing tools for Office 2007. They are ,rar files. I put them in their own folder on the C drive. Rar files are compressed. When I tried to install Office 2007, and went to the folder location, Office 2007 still refused them. Because they are compressed? Do I need to unzip them? I have a .rar tool. I think you're on your own and should experiment as you see fit. Normally, everything you need to install an Office application will be on the install disk and I've never experienced the proofing tools being missing. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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Miscrsoft is losing me real fast!!!
O.K., Thanks.
First, if I mentioned OL97, I was in Error. I meant to say Outlook XP. Where I am is that I was able to completely install Office XP, including Outlook. I first had to edit the registry and delete all references Outlook in Office 10 and Office 12. I did see that the proofing tools at least for English are on my installation disc. But they are in the Office 12 folder, and the install dose not allow one to drill down. Apparently, one needs to save out the proofing tools, what ever has been included, with the files AS FOLDERS. I have not tried to do that yet, because, frankly, Office XP is fine for my needs. In my other machines, where I have Offcie 2007, I save in the 97-2003 mode anyway. I did not remove anything from the registry that was not necessary for me to get Office XP going. Should I find a reason to re-install Office 2007, I will spend the endless time to first remove any trace of Office 2007 (Office 12) first. RSM "Brian Tillman" wrote: Richard Mitnick wrote: I found the proofing tools for Office 2007. They are ,rar files. I put them in their own folder on the C drive. Rar files are compressed. When I tried to install Office 2007, and went to the folder location, Office 2007 still refused them. Because they are compressed? Do I need to unzip them? I have a .rar tool. I think you're on your own and should experiment as you see fit. Normally, everything you need to install an Office application will be on the install disk and I've never experienced the proofing tools being missing. -- Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook] |
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