Problem with MS Office 2003 Pro
 

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

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

HTH

Can certainly happen when you repair an installation.

Here are the official words and solutions:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;822520

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;817117

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