I've installed office 97 on a winXP box and it seems to be working OK. I created a shortcut to open office document and new office document. When i use the open office document, i can open up excel files, but when i try and open a word file i get the error 'the program associated with the selected template cannot be started, or the program cannot use the selected template' - i shouldn't have to reinstall office or anything do i? When i open word and select a doc to open, it works OK. Its just the shortcut.. any ideas??
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Office 97 on Windows XP
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I tried installing office 97 upgrade on my computer and it the installation freezes at 25 to 35 percent every time. Does anyone know how I can stop this? Email me at Matredd@aol.com if you have any ideas.
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Just a note to let you know that Office 97 worked fine for me with Win XP Professional and Home Editions. Your problem may be related to security. Are you invoking this shortcut from a user account that does not have admin priv's.
I get a wierd error message when I open a document in Office 97 under XP. It says the document is already in use and I can't have to instances of the document with the same name at the same time. So I press OK and the document comes up fine, but when I look under the Window menu it has a duplicate copy in there.
Just thought I'de add to the comfusion, thanks.
Just thought I'de add to the comfusion, thanks.
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