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.
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Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]