"NYC XYZ" wrote:


Hi, All:

I was doing the Word97 (Small Business Edition) set-up on WindowsXP
(Home Edition, with SP2) when towards the end of the installation I get
the error message "! Htmlmqrq.ocx was unable to register itself in the
system registry" with no option to go further.

What does that mean???

Now Word does seem available, despite the aborted installation, only
its icon is nowhere to be found, but I have to access it through
actually opening up a text document, even one created in WordPad
(though not the ones made by Notepad).

I have a "clean" computer, almost nothing else installed save Firefox.

Please advise!!!!


TIA!


Dude,

Sorry about that blank reply I just shot off.

Just had a similar problem. My new Gateway desktop came with XP Pro and
Works 8.0 pre-installed. I uninstalled Works, installed Firefox and then
installed Office 97. When doing the Office install I forgot to turn off the
McAfee Virus Scan. I uninstalled Office, rebooted, turned off McAfee and then
installed Office again from scratch. Now the install seems good.

The symptom I was having with Word 97 was that when I opend a file I'd get a
Word error saying the file was already in use and asking if I wanted to make
a copy of the file.

Hope this helps!