Within our company we are currently running XP machines with office 97 on.
When a Word 97 document has an excel spreadsheet attached within it, the
spreadsheet will not open. Instead the following error message appears "Word
cannot edit the Microsoft Excel Worksheet".

I've looked all through Microsoft and all I can find is article 185017
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185017/EN-US which describes the problem, but
the resolution to run Office SR2, which I've done, doesn't solve the problem
on XP.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards Bill

If you're using Norton AntiVirus (or any similar Symantec product), make
sure the Office Plug-in is disabled.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Bill" wrote in message
...
Within our company we are currently running XP machines with office 97 on.
When a Word 97 document has an excel spreadsheet attached within it, the
spreadsheet will not open. Instead the following error message appears
"Word
cannot edit the Microsoft Excel Worksheet".

I've looked all through Microsoft and all I can find is article 185017
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185017/EN-US which describes the problem,
but
the resolution to run Office SR2, which I've done, doesn't solve the
problem
on XP.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards Bill

We're not using Norton AntiVirus or symantec products. We use McAfee AntiVirus.

Regards Bill

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If you're using Norton AntiVirus (or any similar Symantec product), make
sure the Office Plug-in is disabled.

--
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.

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Within our company we are currently running XP machines with office 97 on.
When a Word 97 document has an excel spreadsheet attached within it, the
spreadsheet will not open. Instead the following error message appears
"Word
cannot edit the Microsoft Excel Worksheet".

I've looked all through Microsoft and all I can find is article 185017
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/185017/EN-US which describes the problem,
but
the resolution to run Office SR2, which I've done, doesn't solve the
problem
on XP.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards Bill