After installing Office 97 on a machine running Windows XP, several
applications load apparently ready for use but not Word and Excel. Instead I
get the message 'this application must be installed to run. Please run Setup
from the location where you originally installed the application'. After
doing this the same error still occurs. This also happens after uninstalling
and re-installing. The machine previously ran Office 2003 which I have
uninstalled to use elsewhere.

Can anyone advise how to resolve this problem so that I can run all the
Office97 applications on this machine?

Office 97 is now over 9 years old and is way
past its prime. Upgrade to Office 2003.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User


"Mike" wrote:

> After installing Office 97 on a machine running Windows XP, several
> applications load apparently ready for use but not Word and Excel. Instead I
> get the message 'this application must be installed to run. Please run Setup
> from the location where you originally installed the application'. After
> doing this the same error still occurs. This also happens after uninstalling
> and re-installing. The machine previously ran Office 2003 which I have
> uninstalled to use elsewhere.
>
> Can anyone advise how to resolve this problem so that I can run all the
> Office97 applications on this machine?
>

"Carey Frisch [MVP]" <mrxp2004@nospamyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:8C446D28-2530-4B75-AA14-0660E3EA2040@microsoft.com...
> Office 97 is now over 9 years old and is way
> past its prime. Upgrade to Office 2003.
>

and it still works on Windows 2003.

Dick

"Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EECE5AE4-99C7-4B42-910D-DD1801079747@microsoft.com...
> After installing Office 97 on a machine running Windows XP, several
> applications load apparently ready for use but not Word and Excel.
Instead I
> get the message 'this application must be installed to run. Please run
Setup
> from the location where you originally installed the application'. After
> doing this the same error still occurs. This also happens after
uninstalling
> and re-installing. The machine previously ran Office 2003 which I have
> uninstalled to use elsewhere.
>
> Can anyone advise how to resolve this problem so that I can run all the
> Office97 applications on this machine?
>

Mike

The only thing that comes to mind is that the uninstall of Office 2003 did
not work. Can you see any remains of 2003 on your computer?

I have Office 97 Pro running on a Windows 2003 Standard system so it should
work.

Dick