Critical Excel 2007 bug cripples users

What is 850 x 77.1 ? a calculator will tell you it's 65535, but a critical flaw in Microsoft's Excel 2007 causes it return 100000 as the answer to this, and any other calculation for which the result is 65535.

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WINDOWS TIP # 15: When Windows Will Not Let You Uninstall or Reinstall a Program

Office (and many other programs that use the Windows Installer Service) will often prevent reinstallation and uninstallation if there is a version conflict. This is how to correct this problem.

Programs that use Windows Installer Service are very picky about version conflicts.

Here is a common example. You install Office. It works well but something gets corrupted. You've lost your disc so you rebuild off the network or try to update online. Maybe you try to upgrade to the latest version. You get to a point that you can neither reinstall or uninstall and receive an error like one of the following:

This patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch package exists and that you can access it or contact the application vendor to
verify that this is a valid Windows Installer Patch package.

This action is only valid for products that are currently installed.

Setup is unable to remove earlier version.

The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable.

Error 1612. The installation source for this product is not available. Verify that the source exists and that you can access it.

This is a very common and painful problem that is caused by the Windows Installer Service. The best solution is to use Windows Install Clean Up to blitz the previous installation. After you "clean up" the previous install, you will be able to reinstall the program that is giving you the problem.

The Windows Install Clean Up program is powerful and can be dangerous. Read the support article noted below before running it on your system.

Read the support article and download the utility here.

Source: tech-recipes

 

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Tiny Office Pro 2003, 71.3 MB and WORKS!

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Office 2007 Beta 2 Download Now Available

Get the latest Office Beta here. Also check out over 80 screenshots at.
http://windowsconnected.com/photos/default.aspx

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ODF for MS Office - Open office to supply MS Office Plug in.

Just because Microsoft refuses to support ODF (Open Document Format) never meant that someone wouldn't write a plug-in to enable Microsoft Office users to read and write ODF documents. Well, it's happened.

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