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by dbgirl

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I'm having trouble getting MS Office to work on a machine running NT 4.0 - sp6. MS Access doesn't recognize many of the common functions (i.e. trim, msgbox). I just get an error "Can't find library or project".

In addition, I'm getting an errorin Word that a registry entry is missing or corrupt, and to reinstall Word. I've reinstalled MS Office several times, and finally gave up and rebuilt the machine. It still won't work, and I'm frustrated. The Access database does work with no problems on all other machines I've tried it on. Any ideas?

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by paul d. masley

From the limited information, it appears that either you have a corrupt file or quite possibly a bad sector on your hard drive. Do a limited install of the suite, one program at a time and reboot after each install. After the install, test the program. After the complete minimal installation, restart the install and add the additional parts that you want. I could not get Excel to install on an NT4 /sp5 until I tried this. Apparently one file was overwriting another in the shared section ofthe suite.
Paul

by dmiles

It sounds as though the service pack has overwritten some of the files necessary to the application,you may want to take the service pack out and then install office and go back to reinstall service pack 6.

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