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Old May 23rd, 2008, 10:03 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Richard Mitnick
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Default 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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Old May 27th, 2008, 03:14 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Brian Tillman
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Default 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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Old May 27th, 2008, 08:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.outlook.general
Richard Mitnick
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Default 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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