Updated to Office 2003 - Now can't open any docs?

[pmanson]

I upgraded to Office 2003 today and I now can't open any documents such as word, excel.

Any suggestions? or should I just take it off and start again?

[JamieBeeston]

What happens when you try to open them.

Are you trying to open them via dbl clicking them?

did you upgrade to 2003, or just do a fresh 2003 install over 2000 etc.

try opening word / excel 2003 directly, via the start menu links, this might well repair the file-type links.

Enjoy.

[pmanson]

JamieBeeston said:

What happens when you try to open them.

When i try to open up a Word document it comes up with.........

The file " " is not avaliable.

When i try to open up an Excel document it comes up with........

The file cannot be opened because your virus scanner has detected a problem with the file


I did an update over the original (Office XP).

[victormeldrew]

Can you open them by starting Word/Excel then doing File Open?

[pmanson]

victormeldrew said:

Can you open them by starting Word/Excel then doing File Open?

No.

Seems very strange! I think i might resort to uninstalling it then a reinstall

[warmfuzzies]

Try the old drag and drop routine....

kevin

[pmanson]

warmfuzzies said:

Try the old drag and drop routine.... kevin

Nope no luck. Going to do a reinstall tommorrow I think.

[sybaseian]

Hasn't MS Office 2003 changed the ownership of the documents?

I'm sure that I read somewhere that this was a new feature to make it more secure.

[warmfuzzies]

Installed over here, and it didn't do the ownership thing to me.
You could always try to make a new admin account and see if that works.......

kevin

[pmanson]

Weird! Did an uninstall then reinstalled and i'm still having the same problems.

Outlook 2003 is working fine though!

[agent006]

pmanson said:

The file cannot be opened because your virus scanner has detected a problem with the file

That's the problem you've got. Try re-installing your virus scanner so it detects office properly.