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Installing WORD97 on XP
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Hi all, Lurk-a-lot, don't post much, but good group here. This isn't really a new-user question, but I can't find a better location. If you think there is a better place, feel free to point it out. Pretty sure I've seen the answer here before, but cannot find it now. Long story short, I am trying to install Word97 in WinXP Pro SP2+ machine. I have: -- Removed Office 2002 -- Shut Down & Restarted -- Installed Word97 from the original CD, with HTML Authoring ticked. -- Everything copies to the hard drive, but when it goes to update the Registry, I get the message: "htmlmarq.ocx is unable to register itself in the system registry. " I can run winword.exe and create/Save html files OK as long as they are simple text files. Functionally, I can use Insert, Picture OK, and the picture inserts and behaves as expected. But when I click Save, I get the message "Unable to Load Graphics Conversion Filter" which correlates to the htmlmarq.ocx registry error. I'm sure the fix was simple, but darned if I can find it now! I hope someone can give me an assist? Oh, I'm also adding "97" the the folder names at each opportunity, just to make it easy to find after Office 2002 goes back on. ---------------------------- Why bother with word97? Well, I've tried to live with 2002's code bloat and xml long enough; no filter I've ever found will actually get out all the xml and extra crap. I've tried Open Office, which isn't bad, but it occasionally screws up the wysiwyg, expecially with tables and Word 2k2's xml pages. They look OK in Mozilla and IE, but the editor screen is so messed up you can't tell for sure what you're going to end up with. And doing revisions is a royal pain. Tried Composer; too simple, not enough feature set. And so on. So finally I decided tonight to go back to Word97; it writes decent, clean code and if I need the fancy stuff I have other means to do it. And then I ran into the installation problem with htmlmarq. I used to run 97 and 2000 together on win98, but this is the first time I've tried to put 97 onto this XP machine. Something in the back of my head tells me there was an SP2 fix that caused the install problem, but I cannot find any data to get Word 97 to install completely. Any assistance / advice would be most appreciated. TIA, Pop |
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You might try editing the Windows registry as follows:
1. Start regedit 2. Navigate to the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mi*crosoft\Window s NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options" key 3. Modify the two .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm from .ocx to .old 4. Exit and reboot This fix is not endorsed by Microsoft, and works for some people but not for others. Good luck! PopS wrote: Cross-posted to ... .web.authoring Hi all, Lurk-a-lot, don't post much, but good group here. This isn't really a new-user question, but I can't find a better location. If you think there is a better place, feel free to point it out. Pretty sure I've seen the answer here before, but cannot find it now. Long story short, I am trying to install Word97 in WinXP Pro SP2+ machine. I have: -- Removed Office 2002 -- Shut Down & Restarted -- Installed Word97 from the original CD, with HTML Authoring ticked. -- Everything copies to the hard drive, but when it goes to update the Registry, I get the message: "htmlmarq.ocx is unable to register itself in the system registry. " I can run winword.exe and create/Save html files OK as long as they are simple text files. Functionally, I can use Insert, Picture OK, and the picture inserts and behaves as expected. But when I click Save, I get the message "Unable to Load Graphics Conversion Filter" which correlates to the htmlmarq.ocx registry error. I'm sure the fix was simple, but darned if I can find it now! I hope someone can give me an assist? Oh, I'm also adding "97" the the folder names at each opportunity, just to make it easy to find after Office 2002 goes back on. ---------------------------- Why bother with word97? Well, I've tried to live with 2002's code bloat and xml long enough; no filter I've ever found will actually get out all the xml and extra crap. I've tried Open Office, which isn't bad, but it occasionally screws up the wysiwyg, expecially with tables and Word 2k2's xml pages. They look OK in Mozilla and IE, but the editor screen is so messed up you can't tell for sure what you're going to end up with. And doing revisions is a royal pain. Tried Composer; too simple, not enough feature set. And so on. So finally I decided tonight to go back to Word97; it writes decent, clean code and if I need the fancy stuff I have other means to do it. And then I ran into the installation problem with htmlmarq. I used to run 97 and 2000 together on win98, but this is the first time I've tried to put 97 onto this XP machine. Something in the back of my head tells me there was an SP2 fix that caused the install problem, but I cannot find any data to get Word 97 to install completely. Any assistance / advice would be most appreciated. TIA, Pop |
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I'm not sure your picture problem is related to the htmlmarq.ocx install
problem. I suspect that htmlmarq.ocx is the Marquee control, which is no longer available; see “Application is not available” error messages when you try to insert some Web Tools in Word 2002 and Word 2003 at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886299. These features were removed (by a Windows patch) for security reasons. Ah, wait, here's an even more relevant article: "INFO: ActiveX Controls That Are Removed from Internet Explorer 5" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190045 And this one suggests a relation to pictures: "WD97: Can't Run OCX Control After Converting to Inline Object" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=167879 -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "PopS" wrote in message ... Cross-posted to ... .web.authoring Hi all, Lurk-a-lot, don't post much, but good group here. This isn't really a new-user question, but I can't find a better location. If you think there is a better place, feel free to point it out. Pretty sure I've seen the answer here before, but cannot find it now. Long story short, I am trying to install Word97 in WinXP Pro SP2+ machine. I have: -- Removed Office 2002 -- Shut Down & Restarted -- Installed Word97 from the original CD, with HTML Authoring ticked. -- Everything copies to the hard drive, but when it goes to update the Registry, I get the message: "htmlmarq.ocx is unable to register itself in the system registry. " I can run winword.exe and create/Save html files OK as long as they are simple text files. Functionally, I can use Insert, Picture OK, and the picture inserts and behaves as expected. But when I click Save, I get the message "Unable to Load Graphics Conversion Filter" which correlates to the htmlmarq.ocx registry error. I'm sure the fix was simple, but darned if I can find it now! I hope someone can give me an assist? Oh, I'm also adding "97" the the folder names at each opportunity, just to make it easy to find after Office 2002 goes back on. ---------------------------- Why bother with word97? Well, I've tried to live with 2002's code bloat and xml long enough; no filter I've ever found will actually get out all the xml and extra crap. I've tried Open Office, which isn't bad, but it occasionally screws up the wysiwyg, expecially with tables and Word 2k2's xml pages. They look OK in Mozilla and IE, but the editor screen is so messed up you can't tell for sure what you're going to end up with. And doing revisions is a royal pain. Tried Composer; too simple, not enough feature set. And so on. So finally I decided tonight to go back to Word97; it writes decent, clean code and if I need the fancy stuff I have other means to do it. And then I ran into the installation problem with htmlmarq. I used to run 97 and 2000 together on win98, but this is the first time I've tried to put 97 onto this XP machine. Something in the back of my head tells me there was an SP2 fix that caused the install problem, but I cannot find any data to get Word 97 to install completely. Any assistance / advice would be most appreciated. TIA, Pop |
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f'ups set to ... word.newusers
g& o: That worked perfectly! In fact, as it turns out, AFTER reading your email, I remembered something and found a thread on a helper group about it; not only did you post there, but I was one of the ones who came back and said you could safely rename the .old's back to .ocx. What I'd give for a photographic memory! Thank you for your time. Cheers, PopS "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... You might try editing the Windows registry as follows: 1. Start regedit 2. Navigate to the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mi*crosoft\Window s NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options" key 3. Modify the two .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm from .ocx to .old 4. Exit and reboot This fix is not endorsed by Microsoft, and works for some people but not for others. Good luck! PopS wrote: Cross-posted to ... .web.authoring Hi all, Lurk-a-lot, don't post much, but good group here. This isn't really a new-user question, but I can't find a better location. If you think there is a better place, feel free to point it out. Pretty sure I've seen the answer here before, but cannot find it now. Long story short, I am trying to install Word97 in WinXP Pro SP2+ machine. I have: -- Removed Office 2002 -- Shut Down & Restarted -- Installed Word97 from the original CD, with HTML Authoring ticked. -- Everything copies to the hard drive, but when it goes to update the Registry, I get the message: "htmlmarq.ocx is unable to register itself in the system registry. " I can run winword.exe and create/Save html files OK as long as they are simple text files. Functionally, I can use Insert, Picture OK, and the picture inserts and behaves as expected. But when I click Save, I get the message "Unable to Load Graphics Conversion Filter" which correlates to the htmlmarq.ocx registry error. I'm sure the fix was simple, but darned if I can find it now! I hope someone can give me an assist? Oh, I'm also adding "97" the the folder names at each opportunity, just to make it easy to find after Office 2002 goes back on. ---------------------------- Why bother with word97? Well, I've tried to live with 2002's code bloat and xml long enough; no filter I've ever found will actually get out all the xml and extra crap. I've tried Open Office, which isn't bad, but it occasionally screws up the wysiwyg, expecially with tables and Word 2k2's xml pages. They look OK in Mozilla and IE, but the editor screen is so messed up you can't tell for sure what you're going to end up with. And doing revisions is a royal pain. Tried Composer; too simple, not enough feature set. And so on. So finally I decided tonight to go back to Word97; it writes decent, clean code and if I need the fancy stuff I have other means to do it. And then I ran into the installation problem with htmlmarq. I used to run 97 and 2000 together on win98, but this is the first time I've tried to put 97 onto this XP machine. Something in the back of my head tells me there was an SP2 fix that caused the install problem, but I cannot find any data to get Word 97 to install completely. Any assistance / advice would be most appreciated. TIA, Pop |
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Hi Suzanne,
I'm a little embarassed to admit this, but there is one workable answer at http://forum.theispguide.com/isp-ftopic2753.html which works quite well, and in fact which I even responded to there, having forgotten I'd actually been this route once before. Richard Ford posts the workable response there, and I even responded that it was fine to rename the files back to .ocx's. Don't know if you're interested or not, but I have a couple of inline comments which are intended as FYI and NOT confrontational in any way: "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... I'm not sure your picture problem is related to the htmlmarq.ocx install problem. I suspect that htmlmarq.ocx is the Marquee control, which is no longer available; see “Application is not available” error messages when you === I was quite certain the problem was the html... file since it was during the install that it was failing to register itself. Perhaps I didn't make that completely clear; sorry if that's so. === BTW, the marquee controls all -seem- to be named "marquee(something)" so it was worth figuring that out. I still have no idea what htmlMARQ stands for though; whatever it is, without it, a user cannot insert graphics into a WD97 document. That I can prove ;-{. try to insert some Web Tools in Word 2002 and Word 2003 at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=886299. These features were removed (by a Windows patch) for security reasons. === Again, this isn't really about an instal of wd97l issue. But, it's good you mentioned it, because it reminded me there are updates to apply to WD97. Groannnn, wonder which archive those are in? I didn't do housekeeping very well back then :-[ Ah, wait, here's an even more relevant article: "INFO: ActiveX Controls That Are Removed from Internet Explorer 5" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190045 === I read thru this one because it was of interest to me, but it's not really about WD97 installation on an XP system. And this one suggests a relation to pictures: "WD97: Can't Run OCX Control After Converting to Inline Object" at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=167879 === Again, that one's not an installation issue, but certainly related. In fact, I grabbed it and added it to my "maybe" files for future "borkenness" times. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) === I have no idea why the problem with htmlmarq.ocx was pre-existing and refused to let wd97 load though. I imagine it's an XP "protect us from ourselves" feature but that's just a guess. I'll be curious to see if they're reinstalled witn I put WD2002 back on. I'm assuming they're something left there from the wd2002 uninstall, that wd97 wanted to replace. Right now it just gets a big "huh!". === So, although the direct answer came from g & o, I do still sincerely thank you because the otherwise value of your response is worth having. Best Regards, PopS -- I fail to see why doing the same thing over and over and getting the same results every time is insanity: I've almost proved it isn't; only a few more tests now and I'm sure results will differ this time .... .... |
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PS - Did you ever figure out why this fix doesn't work
for some users? I'm tempted to try to figure it out, but I'm not willing to take the time to try the various install scenarios that occur to me as possibilities. Plus you can never be sure exactly why something didn't work; it may have been other problems contributing, who knows? Or even sour grapes if it was only a few. Regards, Pop "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... You might try editing the Windows registry as follows: 1. Start regedit 2. Navigate to the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mi*crosoft\Window s NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options" key 3. Modify the two .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm from .ocx to .old 4. Exit and reboot This fix is not endorsed by Microsoft, and works for some people but not for others. Good luck! PopS wrote: Cross-posted to ... .web.authoring Hi all, Lurk-a-lot, don't post much, but good group here. This isn't really a new-user question, but I can't find a better location. If you think there is a better place, feel free to point it out. Pretty sure I've seen the answer here before, but cannot find it now. Long story short, I am trying to install Word97 in WinXP Pro SP2+ machine. I have: -- Removed Office 2002 -- Shut Down & Restarted -- Installed Word97 from the original CD, with HTML Authoring ticked. -- Everything copies to the hard drive, but when it goes to update the Registry, I get the message: "htmlmarq.ocx is unable to register itself in the system registry. " I can run winword.exe and create/Save html files OK as long as they are simple text files. Functionally, I can use Insert, Picture OK, and the picture inserts and behaves as expected. But when I click Save, I get the message "Unable to Load Graphics Conversion Filter" which correlates to the htmlmarq.ocx registry error. I'm sure the fix was simple, but darned if I can find it now! I hope someone can give me an assist? Oh, I'm also adding "97" the the folder names at each opportunity, just to make it easy to find after Office 2002 goes back on. ---------------------------- Why bother with word97? Well, I've tried to live with 2002's code bloat and xml long enough; no filter I've ever found will actually get out all the xml and extra crap. I've tried Open Office, which isn't bad, but it occasionally screws up the wysiwyg, expecially with tables and Word 2k2's xml pages. They look OK in Mozilla and IE, but the editor screen is so messed up you can't tell for sure what you're going to end up with. And doing revisions is a royal pain. Tried Composer; too simple, not enough feature set. And so on. So finally I decided tonight to go back to Word97; it writes decent, clean code and if I need the fancy stuff I have other means to do it. And then I ran into the installation problem with htmlmarq. I used to run 97 and 2000 together on win98, but this is the first time I've tried to put 97 onto this XP machine. Something in the back of my head tells me there was an SP2 fix that caused the install problem, but I cannot find any data to get Word 97 to install completely. Any assistance / advice would be most appreciated. TIA, Pop |
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Not a clue. I support a group of computers in a production
environment running a legacy custom application built around MS Office 97 and MS FoxPro 2... they don't need the web authoring stuff, so I always choose a custom installation and de-select the web authoring tools, thereby avoiding the htmlmarq error message altogether. I think I've only seen one or two users in these newsgroups report that the registry fix didn't work for them. I've seen one user report being unable to install SP2 for Office 97 when the web authoring tools are not installed, but I haven't run into that problem myself on any of my computers... I think that guy is full of hooey because it makes NO sense that not installing what is essentially an optional feature would prevent Off97 SP2 from installing, when many optional features are not installed in a "typical" Off97 installation. But then, I also haven't run into the "can't insert graphics when web tools not installed" problem that you mention in your reply to Suzanne (I tried it myself just now to make sure). Anyhow, I ain't fixin' what ain't broke! PopS wrote: PS - Did you ever figure out why this fix doesn't work for some users? I'm tempted to try to figure it out, but I'm not willing to take the time to try the various install scenarios that occur to me as possibilities. Plus you can never be sure exactly why something didn't work; it may have been other problems contributing, who knows? Or even sour grapes if it was only a few. Regards, Pop "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... You might try editing the Windows registry as follows: 1. Start regedit 2. Navigate to the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mi*crosoft\Window s NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options" key 3. Modify the two .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm from .ocx to .old 4. Exit and reboot This fix is not endorsed by Microsoft, and works for some people but not for others. Good luck! PopS wrote: Cross-posted to ... .web.authoring Hi all, Lurk-a-lot, don't post much, but good group here. This isn't really a new-user question, but I can't find a better location. If you think there is a better place, feel free to point it out. Pretty sure I've seen the answer here before, but cannot find it now. Long story short, I am trying to install Word97 in WinXP Pro SP2+ machine. I have: -- Removed Office 2002 -- Shut Down & Restarted -- Installed Word97 from the original CD, with HTML Authoring ticked. -- Everything copies to the hard drive, but when it goes to update the Registry, I get the message: "htmlmarq.ocx is unable to register itself in the system registry. " I can run winword.exe and create/Save html files OK as long as they are simple text files. Functionally, I can use Insert, Picture OK, and the picture inserts and behaves as expected. But when I click Save, I get the message "Unable to Load Graphics Conversion Filter" which correlates to the htmlmarq.ocx registry error. I'm sure the fix was simple, but darned if I can find it now! I hope someone can give me an assist? Oh, I'm also adding "97" the the folder names at each opportunity, just to make it easy to find after Office 2002 goes back on. ---------------------------- Why bother with word97? Well, I've tried to live with 2002's code bloat and xml long enough; no filter I've ever found will actually get out all the xml and extra crap. I've tried Open Office, which isn't bad, but it occasionally screws up the wysiwyg, expecially with tables and Word 2k2's xml pages. They look OK in Mozilla and IE, but the editor screen is so messed up you can't tell for sure what you're going to end up with. And doing revisions is a royal pain. Tried Composer; too simple, not enough feature set. And so on. So finally I decided tonight to go back to Word97; it writes decent, clean code and if I need the fancy stuff I have other means to do it. And then I ran into the installation problem with htmlmarq. I used to run 97 and 2000 together on win98, but this is the first time I've tried to put 97 onto this XP machine. Something in the back of my head tells me there was an SP2 fix that caused the install problem, but I cannot find any data to get Word 97 to install completely. Any assistance / advice would be most appreciated. TIA, Pop |
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You got that right: If it aint' borke, don't fix it!
FWIW, neither 97 nor 2002 replaced the .OLD files I renamed. I still have updates to apply, so they might yet, but ... . PopS "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... Not a clue. I support a group of computers in a production environment running a legacy custom application built around MS Office 97 and MS FoxPro 2... they don't need the web authoring stuff, so I always choose a custom installation and de-select the web authoring tools, thereby avoiding the htmlmarq error message altogether. I think I've only seen one or two users in these newsgroups report that the registry fix didn't work for them. I've seen one user report being unable to install SP2 for Office 97 when the web authoring tools are not installed, but I haven't run into that problem myself on any of my computers... I think that guy is full of hooey because it makes NO sense that not installing what is essentially an optional feature would prevent Off97 SP2 from installing, when many optional features are not installed in a "typical" Off97 installation. But then, I also haven't run into the "can't insert graphics when web tools not installed" problem that you mention in your reply to Suzanne (I tried it myself just now to make sure). Anyhow, I ain't fixin' what ain't broke! PopS wrote: PS - Did you ever figure out why this fix doesn't work for some users? I'm tempted to try to figure it out, but I'm not willing to take the time to try the various install scenarios that occur to me as possibilities. Plus you can never be sure exactly why something didn't work; it may have been other problems contributing, who knows? Or even sour grapes if it was only a few. Regards, Pop "garfield-n-odie" wrote in message ... You might try editing the Windows registry as follows: 1. Start regedit 2. Navigate to the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mi*crosoft\Window s NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options" key 3. Modify the two .ocx files whose names start with HTMLm from .ocx to .old 4. Exit and reboot This fix is not endorsed by Microsoft, and works for some people but not for others. Good luck! PopS wrote: Cross-posted to ... .web.authoring Hi all, Lurk-a-lot, don't post much, but good group here. This isn't really a new-user question, but I can't find a better location. If you think there is a better place, feel free to point it out. Pretty sure I've seen the answer here before, but cannot find it now. Long story short, I am trying to install Word97 in WinXP Pro SP2+ machine. I have: -- Removed Office 2002 -- Shut Down & Restarted -- Installed Word97 from the original CD, with HTML Authoring ticked. -- Everything copies to the hard drive, but when it goes to update the Registry, I get the message: "htmlmarq.ocx is unable to register itself in the system registry. " I can run winword.exe and create/Save html files OK as long as they are simple text files. Functionally, I can use Insert, Picture OK, and the picture inserts and behaves as expected. But when I click Save, I get the message "Unable to Load Graphics Conversion Filter" which correlates to the htmlmarq.ocx registry error. I'm sure the fix was simple, but darned if I can find it now! I hope someone can give me an assist? Oh, I'm also adding "97" the the folder names at each opportunity, just to make it easy to find after Office 2002 goes back on. ---------------------------- Why bother with word97? Well, I've tried to live with 2002's code bloat and xml long enough; no filter I've ever found will actually get out all the xml and extra crap. I've tried Open Office, which isn't bad, but it occasionally screws up the wysiwyg, expecially with tables and Word 2k2's xml pages. They look OK in Mozilla and IE, but the editor screen is so messed up you can't tell for sure what you're going to end up with. And doing revisions is a royal pain. Tried Composer; too simple, not enough feature set. And so on. So finally I decided tonight to go back to Word97; it writes decent, clean code and if I need the fancy stuff I have other means to do it. And then I ran into the installation problem with htmlmarq. I used to run 97 and 2000 together on win98, but this is the first time I've tried to put 97 onto this XP machine. Something in the back of my head tells me there was an SP2 fix that caused the install problem, but I cannot find any data to get Word 97 to install completely. Any assistance / advice would be most appreciated. TIA, Pop |
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Hi Pop,
The HTMLMARQ ActiveX controls were disabled as a security precaution by Windows XP Service Pack 2. My understanding is that the Windows folks made that call and the Office folks aren't in a position to reinstate the control. It affects Office 97, 2000, XP/2002 and 2003. The registry change is one we've suggested (not 'Microsoft approved g') but it doesn't work for everyone it seems. Not sure though why the control would prevent you from inserting a graphic into a Word document. ========== "PopS" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, I'm a little embarassed to admit this, but there is one workable answer at http://forum.theispguide.com/isp-ftopic2753.html which works quite well, and in fact which I even responded to there, having forgotten I'd actually been this route once before. ...[snip] -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" - http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx |
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"Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote in message ... Hi Pop, The HTMLMARQ ActiveX controls were disabled as a security precaution by Windows XP Service Pack 2. My understanding is that the Windows folks made that call and the Office folks aren't in a position to reinstate the control. It affects Office 97, 2000, XP/2002 and 2003. The registry change is one we've suggested (not 'Microsoft approved g') but it doesn't work for everyone it seems. Not sure though why the control would prevent you from inserting a graphic into a Word document. ========== "PopS" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, I'm a little embarassed to admit this, but there is one workable answer at http://forum.theispguide.com/isp-ftopic2753.html which works quite well, and in fact which I even responded to there, having forgotten I'd actually been this route once before. ...[snip] -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" - http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx Yeah, problem's solved and both are living nicely in the same house now, different bedrooms. Interestingly, if those ocx's were removed in SP2, something brought them back, maybe one of the ensuing hot fixes?. They weren't replaced by either WD97 OR WD2002, so I guess they're truly not needed, at least in my machine, but ... if they were removed by MS, where'd they come from? My XP is a format/install so they weren't leftovers. I have the CDs and a Gateway P4, 512, lotsa drive space, 2.6GHz. First thing I did was remove the OS and reformat/install with a retailed set of CDs. Regards, |
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Hi Pop,
The OCX controls weren't removed, just disabled by Windows XP SP2 (i.e. it watches for them to be called then intervenes) As with many of the 'workarounds' for security related issues (include the elimination of 'show me' help in Office 2000) g they're use at your own risk (just as if you hadn't installed the security update that fixed them) ========= Yeah, problem's solved and both are living nicely in the same house now, different bedrooms. Interestingly, if those ocx's were removed in SP2, something brought them back, maybe one of the ensuing hot fixes?. They weren't replaced by either WD97 OR WD2002, so I guess they're truly not needed, at least in my machine, but ... if they were removed by MS, where'd they come from? My XP is a format/install so they weren't leftovers. I have the CDs and a Gateway P4, 512, lotsa drive space, 2.6GHz. First thing I did was remove the OS and reformat/install with a retailed set of CDs. Regards, -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" - http://microsoft.com/events/series/a...andtricks.mspx |
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