Keenan
We do not believe that the Office '97 should be causing an issue, we
were just saying that since it is such an old product we no longer test with
it and therefore do no know of all the results or affects that could happen.
Office is not even required to run Electrical, so the only thing you would
have to do for '97 is convert any of the mdb files if you would want to edit
them in access. Have you attempted to install this on any other machine?
Also, what rights do you have? It sounds like your company is fairly strict
and IT monitors things pretty closely. If that is the case, you may not
have the full Administrator rights that are needed to install the program
correctly. My next suggestion would be, get IT involved, have them login to
the machine so that they have full admin rights on the machine, then run the
"repair" option from the CD. Let's give that a try and see what happens.
If you could also get someone else to try installing it, or take the CD home
and install it there, that could help narrow it down to something on that
particular machine, but again, no matter what machine you go to install on,
you must have full admin rights to install the program.
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Regards,
Jared Bunch
Technical Support Specialist
Autodesk, Inc.
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"kcurry32" wrote in message
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> Hey Guys,
>
> I tried install MDAC 2.5, but it would not install because it recognized
that the files were already installed with W2k. I also tried to install
MDAC 2.8 (the latest) and then reinstalling Jet 4.0 SP8 (as the MS wedsite
suggested), but again, no luck. Anymore suggestions?
>
> It's a little disappointing that the install relies on a later version of
a program (ACC2000), as I understand you'll are saying. If this is the
case, I'm shot, because Hallmark Cards (my employer) still uses Office97 as
it's default office application and has no plans of changing anytime soon.
What if I didn't have Office installed at all? Would this help (even though
I have no way of installing it again myself, it's an IT controlled program)?
>
> Thanks for all your suggestions so far. I'm hoping one of them will lick
my problem (I only have 14 more days to try this program out before I'm able
to recommend it or not to my staff and EE peers within the corporation. I'd
sure like to try it first so that I can give it a fair shake, because your
marketing department makes it sound very apealing to our needs.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Keenan