Problem with MS Office 2003 Pro

[FJJP]

High spec computer Win XP Pro. A few problems developed with Office so I decided to re-install or repair. It seemed to go OK, but trying to open any Office application resulted in the following error message -

"The application failed to initialise properly (0xc0150002)"

Anyone any ideas? I am loath to uninstall and re-install for fear of losing data (especially non e-mail data in Outlook).

FJJP

[TopBunk]

Visit Microsoft Knowledge Base and enter >>> 0xc0150002 <<< as the search key. This lists a couple of leads to follow up on that should help you. Replace the search string with the one above.

Knowledge Base here (http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?InCC_hdn=true&Catalog=LCID%3D2057%26CDID%3DEN-US-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3DON&QuerySource=gASr_Query&Product=winxp&Queryc=el90xbc5.sys&Query=el90xbc5.sys&KeywordType=ALL&maxResults=100&Titles=false&numDays=&InCC=on)

HTH

[stickyb]

Can certainly happen when you repair an installation.

Here are the official words and solutions:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;822520

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;817117

[FJJP]

Thanks for the info, guys. Turns out that you were correct - after problems with XP, I did a lot of repair type work. It was after the last that the Office problems began.

I followed your links and added the updates which fixed the prob.

Well done, and thanks.

Oh, and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

FJJP