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Name: MarkW
Date: March 2, 2007 at 02:36:04 Pacific
OS: Win NT
CPU/Ram: PIII-733/ 128mb
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Hi there

I have copied some documents (word & excel 2003) from a windows 2000 to an NT 4.0 workstation (using office 2000). Unfortunatley I can no longer open these docs by double clicking the files, I receive a 'cannot find file' message. I can however open the docs by firstly opening the application then file>open. I have trashed the user profile and recreated but no joy. I have tried to uninstall Office but I receive the following error

"Internal Error 2755: Please Contact Product Support for assistance."

I have checked the event logs on the workstation and these two errors appear frequently

Product: Microsoft Office 2000 Professional -- Internal Error 2755: Please contact product support for assistance.

Detection of product '{00010409-78E1-11D2-B60F-006097C998E7}', feature 'ExcelUserData', component '{8ADD2C96-C8B7-11D1-9C67-0000F81F1B38}' failed. The resource 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Excel\UserData' does not exist.

Any advice would be much appreciated

Thanks in advance


Mark



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Response Number 1
Name: Lupin3rd
Date: March 2, 2007 at 04:43:23 Pacific
Reply:

Possibly a problem associated with opening a word/excel 2003 file in word/excel 2000, so maybe try saving them in Word/Excel 2003 as the 2000 counterparts? use the File>Save As option. Just really a way to get the whole solution progress started. But that is a way if you really want to be able to jsut double click them from any where right now.

If this equals that, then why does that equal this?


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Response Number 2
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: March 21, 2007 at 07:29:01 Pacific
Reply:

Try this:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/166389

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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: March 27, 2007 at 10:11:56 Pacific
Reply:

So, did either of those suggestions help?

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Response Number 4
Name: MarkW
Date: March 28, 2007 at 11:37:32 Pacific
Reply:

Hi Jennifer

Yes, the support doc from Microsoft was perfect, thanks very much for your help guys I really appreciate it

Regards

Mark


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Response Number 5
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: March 28, 2007 at 12:15:08 Pacific
Reply:

You're certainly welcome.. Thanks for posting back...

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