Office 2K glitch ;)

[Paddy]

I was installing Office 2000 standard (upgrade) today on a fresh build of Win2K. Of course with it being a clean install the CD reported that no valid products where found to upgrade, 'could i please select a drive' to look for one.

Bugger! I thought, but then I had the idea of pointing the installation program to look at itself. And it worked!

I bet that one is going to cost MS a few bob!

LOL

[Brian R.]

Good thinking

[SteveC]

Yeah - it's a great one, innit?! It's saved us so much time at work digging out Office 97's when we install O2K from the upgrade CD...

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[Taz]

That bit of code must have been written by the same person who wrote the Product ID checking routine which excepts all ones as a valid number!

[fds]

Strange, that never worked for me when installing Office 2000 Premium (Upgrade, US English).

It did work though when I simply copied the pfiles\ folder from the CD to the hard drive and pointed the installer there.

[Gurm]

Pretty sure it's just for Standard and Pro versions, not Premium.

- Gurm

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