Troubles with Word & Excel

[Daniela]

Hi
I’m having problems with MS Word and Excel. Recently always when I want to start Word or Excel, I’m getting message to install some new feature. I need to cancel couple times, that pop-up and after that everything works fine. I try to install using the CD but I’m getting error message that the file POPULIS is not correct.
I don’t want to install anything. How to get rid of that first message for installing

Thanks, D

[pam123]

I can't tell if you're zapping new features or security updates.
What new feature(s) ?

[Daniela]

I'm not sure. I was working on something and didn't pay attention when I was prompt for the first time to instal. I just klick 'OK", and since then I'm having those problems. Is there any way to stop/cancel promt for instalation when I start Word or Excel?

D-

[mairving]

I have seen it do that with add-on programs. Acrobat and other ones like Avery add a macro to the startup that gets a little flitzy. What version of Office is it?

[Daniela]

office XP pro 2002 with FrontPage

[pam123]

This may get you out of the problem if you let the Office update install :

Do you have any other Office family applications such as FrontPage? You can check the Add/Remove Programs applet to see what Office XP applications the operating system thinks are installed. The Office Update looks at the same registry data that the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs applet uses. Uninstall anything you don't need that is related to Office XP.

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