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Getting error with my Office 2000 when starting and closing
It looks like I messed up something when I was rearranging my HD partitions a while back. I suspect that some of the Office Program files got moved to another partition and then back to where they used to be. The result seems to be that every time I start any of my Office programs, Word, excel, powerpoint, access, I get an error "Compile error in hidden Module: Autoexec" If I click Ok things proceed normally, but I then get the same error box when I shut down any of the Office programs. Again clicking OK lets me proceed. But... I am guessing that some thing I did makes Office think this may not be a valid installation. But it is valid. I have all my CD's etc for when I originally bought it way way back. It's been kind of a nuisance until I just recently tried to do a mail merge to make some labels. And I can't get them to print. Since the same little error window pops up briefly during the mail merge sequence, I am thinking that the problem relates to the error I get at Office startup. So what can i do to fix this?? Help will be very much appreciated. Thanks Sam |
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Getting error with my Office 2000 when starting and closing
See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307410 "You receive a 'Compile
error in hidden module' error message when you start Word or Excel". Sam wrote: It looks like I messed up something when I was rearranging my HD partitions a while back. I suspect that some of the Office Program files got moved to another partition and then back to where they used to be. The result seems to be that every time I start any of my Office programs, Word, excel, powerpoint, access, I get an error "Compile error in hidden Module: Autoexec" If I click Ok things proceed normally, but I then get the same error box when I shut down any of the Office programs. Again clicking OK lets me proceed. But... I am guessing that some thing I did makes Office think this may not be a valid installation. But it is valid. I have all my CD's etc for when I originally bought it way way back. It's been kind of a nuisance until I just recently tried to do a mail merge to make some labels. And I can't get them to print. Since the same little error window pops up briefly during the mail merge sequence, I am thinking that the problem relates to the error I get at Office startup. So what can i do to fix this?? Help will be very much appreciated. Thanks Sam |
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Getting error with my Office 2000 when starting and closing
garfield-n-odie [MVP] wrote:
See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307410 "You receive a 'Compile error in hidden module' error message when you start Word or Excel". Thanks for that really fast response. Will go looking for the files that link suggests and make the fixes that it suggests. btw, I did have Symantec AV and the good old Norton Utilities on this machine a long time ago. They are all gone and a thorough, really thorough removal was made of ALL Symantec products. Hope I didn't take out anything that might be needed... Also I do own and run Adobe 5.O PDF writer on this machine. Yup it's an antique too, but still works. Glad the ref you gave did not require me to buy a newer one. Thanks very much Sam |
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Getting error with my Office 2000 when starting and closing
SUCCESS !!!
The problem seems to ahve been with the two adobe pdf files; Just as the MS KB said. Moving the two adobe 5.0 files out of the Office startup and out of the XLstartup directoruies looks to have solved this problem !!! I can now start Word & Excel without that pesky "error" box. And I got my labels to do the mail-merge and print. So this kid is a lot happier. Thanks very much !! Sam |
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Getting error with my Office 2000 when starting and closing
Glad to hear it, and thanks for the feedback. :-)
Sam wrote: SUCCESS !!! The problem seems to ahve been with the two adobe pdf files; Just as the MS KB said. Moving the two adobe 5.0 files out of the Office startup and out of the XLstartup directoruies looks to have solved this problem !!! I can now start Word & Excel without that pesky "error" box. And I got my labels to do the mail-merge and print. So this kid is a lot happier. Thanks very much !! Sam |
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