Hi All
I have setup office 2003 on windows XP machines connected
to a Windows 2003 server.
Eacher user haas their own profiles and user share on the
server.
My problem is, when a user double clicks on a word or
excel document, it open the correct application but the
file is not opened (the user is presented with a grey
screen). Users can then go to file ->open and open the
document. Users can save files OK. Double-clicking on
publisher 2003 or powerpoint 2003 files open the
application and file correctly
Also, everytime a user opens an office program, the windows installer dialog
box comes up, and then disappears without any user
interaction required.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Travis
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M_A_D_C_A_T,
Are you storing the user's normal.dot and *.xlb files on the server? Microsoft recommends that each user's configuration files be stored on the local computer rather than a server. See http://support.microsoft.c
Brad
Hi,
Each user uses roaming profiles, but office is installed locally on each workstation, I am not running office from the server as indicated in http://support.microsoft.c
Any other ideas??
Some additional information:
I have installed SP1 for Office 2003 and SP2 for Windows XP.
When I log in as the domain administrator (which has blocked policy inheritance) I still have the same problem.
When I log in as the local administrator of the machine (by changing the log on to: box to the local machine) Word and Excel open docuements correctly.
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by: byundtPosted on 2004-09-06 at 19:29:11ID: 11993410
Hi M_A_D_C_A_T,
It wouldn't explain the problems with Word, but make sure that the Tools...Options...General menu item in Excel does not have the checkbox for "Ignore other applications" checked.
Cheers!
Brad