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| Thread ID: 43292 | 2004-03-09 23:19:00 | Retro-installation of components for Office 2000 Premium | Billy T (70) | Press F1 |
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| 221359 | 2004-03-09 23:19:00 | Hi Team I want to add PowerPoint to an existing Office 2000 installation. It was left off this box because I didn't think it would ever be needed. When I try to install it via Add/Remove programs, I get the list of installed and available components and naturally PowerPoint has the "not installed" red cross. The window I am looking at says you can add components later, but I'm blowed if I can find out how. There doesn't seem to be an "Office" help file on the computer or CD, and I have banged my head on the MS knowledgebase for over an hour without success. I have tried every search term I can think of, and I've Googled till my keyboard cried "enough!" All this tells me that the answer is probably stupidly simple, so simple that it doesn't need a knowledgebase or help file entry. Can anybody put me out of my misery please? Cheers Billy 8-{) :( |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 221360 | 2004-03-09 23:27:00 | Have you tried putting your Office CD in the drive? If your CD drive is set to auto-run it should come up with a dialogue box to reinstall or add new components (pretty much the same as Add/Remove but since that isn't working for you.....). | Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 221361 | 2004-03-10 00:01:00 | I am with F&I on this. All I have ever neded to do was run the CD Setup (or autorun) and choose what I wanted to install or uninstall from there. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 221362 | 2004-03-10 00:11:00 | hmm not sure what you are using but mine is XP and when i go add remove programs i get a change box, then a wizard comes up and i just tick the components i want or dont want then then hit a box called update, but i remember the older office haveing boxes and you could right click on them and tell to install or install all. Hope this helps |
Budda (2736) | ||
| 221363 | 2004-03-10 00:55:00 | Okay, I finally found the (an?) answer. Yes, I got the same problem whether using Add/remove or the install CD. I tried the update option of course, but that didn't do anything either. Finally, and with gritted teeth, I tried the "install when next run" option which enabled most but not all the crossed out PP options; which then installed a PP icon; which, when clicked, prompted for the CD; which then installed PowerPoint. What a convoluted process. I can't believe that this is the intended path, but it worked so I'm not asking anymore questions! Cheers Billy 8-{) :_| |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 221364 | 2004-03-12 02:00:00 | I can't understand why you are going to ADD/Remove programs. Just insert the CD and it should Autorun & come up with a Menu, "Repair" ADD etc. If it does not autorun, Start/Run and select the CD & setup. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 221365 | 2004-03-12 04:02:00 | Windows works either way and brings up the same path Mzee, so it doesn't matter which you use. As it happens, neither path would work and I subsequently found what may or may not have been a work-around that allowed installation. I'm too long in the tooth to not know about autorun, or the alternatives if that fails, so what was bugging me was the absence of any option to initiate the component installation. The program is installed now so I'm not too concerned about how I got there, I've just stored the info away for future use. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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