RE: Vista and Office 2003 / 2007
Same for me. I have a fresh install of Vista and Office 2007. I do not have
any other Office installs on my system. I did not upgrade a previous XP
install. I chose to install Vista in a seperate folder and the install
renamed the Windows folder to Windows.old. I am guessing with this option it
will not pull any configuration or applications installs over.
I am getting the same errors:
Every Office application re-runs the re-configure screen like it is the
first time
Excel gives me an error about stdole32.tlb (for me it only says stdole32.tlb
and an ok button. Nothing about not being registered)
Access gives me there is no license.
So for anyone saying this is a problem with multiple office installs I can
clear that up since this was a new install.
Re: Vista and Office 2003 / 2007
I seem to remember this happening when I first installed Office '07. At one
point I had to do a phone re-activation with MS. A reboot cleared it up
though.
Re: Vista and Office 2003 / 2007
Does anyone know if Microsoft is working on this issue? It seems they have
no way of contacting them unless you want to pay $50 and I am just not one to
pay to let them know there is a problem. From scanning the different forums,
this seems to be a common issue. Even from someone who bought a new system
with Vista and installed Office 2007 had these issues.
Re: Vista and Office 2003 / 2007
I thought you could provide feedback through Office 2003/2007 that keeps
popping up every so often. Contacting MS about a bug in any of their
programs, including operating system, is simply not worth any payment.
After finding a Windows XP Product Activation bug when XP released, the
Microsoft account reps acted like I was a criminal and criticized me
greatly for finding such bug. The bug did get silently corrected
through one of the multitude of security updates back then, but
Microsoft's behavior was extremely unprofessional.
Re: Vista and Office 2003 / 2007
Well I hope they get their act together. The most annoying thing is that it
goes through configuration in Outlook for every email that gets downloaded.
So if I have 10 emails, it runs through congiration for each email that gets
downloaded.
Re: Vista and Office 2003 / 2007
This is getting to be a nightmare for me.
First it only happened when starting outlook.
Now it's happening at the start of every Office 2007 application.
And this morning, FOR EVERY SINGLE individual e-mail downloaded, I
cycle though "updating configuration" dialog.
Fix that works-- sometimes
It did for me, after wasting 10 hours or so trying to figure out what MSFTs pinhead developers had done. Found it in a post on a blog by uksbsguy aka David Overton. gotta scroll way down.
Go to your program files directory, usually c:\program files\
Open \Microsoft Office\Office12. Complete path: [your system drive, usually c:]\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12
Locate the executables for the office programs. Tip: to find them all, click on the "Type" header in windows explorer then just scroll till you see all the .exe files together. Word is called Winword, Ecxel is called Excel, Access is called MSAccess, Publisher is called MSpub, etc.
Now simply right click each one then select create shortcut. Instead if it doing it, you will get a message saying it can't create the short cut there, do you want to put it on your desk top (lamer than lame--why would you create a short cut to there? - you are already there). Say yes, without letting your bloodpressure rise, as I do.
When you want to use the program, just click the shortcut you've created. Unbelievably, it works. It's worked for several people, and it worked for me.
btw, if you can't see the proper directory or files, open the "tools" menu in explorer, go to "folder options", then go to the "view" tab, and then select show hidden files and folders. Then deselect "hide extensions for known file types" and deslect "hide protected operating system files". If you feel too nervous about doing this, find a friend who knows what they are doing or hire someone.
This will NOT fix the stdole32.tlb error, but it should prevent the installer from running every time you open a program.
Good luck.
Re: Vista and Office 2003 / 2007
Hello.
I also had this problem and after reading hundreds of web pages all I can say is that the only real solution is format and reinstall vista. Most online suggestions are crap and this thread was not helpful at all either. :(
Re: Vista and Office 2003 / 2007