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My installation of Office has been fine until today. I tried to run a Wizard (Table Analyser) from Access and I got an error message saying Wizard not installed properly/error in registry/a Visual Basic declaration is incorrect...sort of thing...although it doesn't show an error number, it's Error 7850.

The solution apparently is to do a Detect and Repair in Access, or to delete all the accwiz.dll and .mde files and then repair or reinstall Office.

I have tried every tweak, every registry hack and every fix I can find in the MS Knowledgebase but to no avail. I really don't want to wipe my system and re-install everything from scratch.

The only thing that has changed on the system since the last time Office worked properly, was that I have added a Hauppauge WinTV-PCI card. I can't see any link between that and Office Wizards suddenly not working.

I have also done a complete uninstall of Office, removed all relevant ini files and registry entries, then re-installed from scratch. I think this is a VBA issue but I'm not sure. If so, how do I uninstall and reinstall just VBA (there is no option for this on the Office Setup custom options). I did try deleting the VBA folder in Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared, and Office then flashed up a dialoge stating that this feature needed to be installed. I inserted the O2K CD, and it installed (apparently!) the missing components, but Wizards still don't work.

I have tried a Google search for more help, and a Copernic search, but no luck yet....any suggestions anyone?

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by guruofdos

I should mention that I've already looked at these KB articles...the utility doesn't work on XP. I'm running XP2Pro

by dklippert

Have you tried renaming accwiz.dll and copying it off of the installation CD?
Do you have SR2 installed?
Also try:
Start>Run
regsvr32 accwiz.dll

by curacao_dejavu

Hi,

First a question:
Is the wizard not running for 1 office program or none are working ?
a search on ms website reveals that the program may have a problem with the location of the cliparts.

I would suggest to completely remove office 2000.

Install it again but in a completely different folder than the previous installation (normal installation defaults to c:\program files\office)
so install it in a diferent partition (if you have )or a diferent folder.
Install office 2000 sp3.

and install the latest mdac

You can download the latest MDAC version from the Microsoft.com Download Center by following these steps:
Go to the following Microsoft web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads

In the Product list, select Data Access Components SDK.
In the Operating System list, select the appropriate operating system.
In the Show Results for list, click All Downloads.
Click Find It.
In the results list, select the version of MDAC you want to download and then click Save it to disk.
When the download is complete, double-click the downloaded file and follow the instructions to install it.
If downloading and installing the latest version of MDAC does not resolve the problem, you may need to uninstall and reinstall MDAC by using the Microsoft Component Checker.

For additional information about removing MDAC and installing the current version of MDAC by using the Component Checker, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
307255 INFO: Component Checker: Diagnose Problems and Reconfigure MDAC Installations

Success

Leopold

by guruofdos

Nothing to do with MDAC. I solved the problem...stuck in another hard disk, installed 98SE and Orifice2k, split my tables....saved my data and then put my original hard disk in. I then copied the Office registry entries from the new disk and imported them to the old disk. Worked fine.

by paulvs1_

I would suggest to completely remove office 2000.

Install it again but in a completely different folder than the previous installation (normal installation defaults to c:\program files\office)
so install it in a diferent partition (if you have )or a diferent folder.
Install office 2000 sp3.

and install the latest mdac

You can download the latest MDAC version from the Microsoft.com Download Center by following these steps:
Go to the following Microsoft web site:
http://www.microsft.com/

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