Oh wise B3tans, I require your technical wizardry
I'm running Vista and on my quick launch bar, I have a shortcut to a spreadsheet I use. It worked fine until recently, when it started doing this.



I click ok, and then load the file again and it works. It does it about 50% of the time. It's not just the shortcut, it does it if I double-click the file.

But then it's started doing it with other office documents and earlier, I right-clicked a jpg, selected Open with / Paintshop Pro and it threw the same error.

Google hasn't been my friend, and the Microsoft KB is no help either.

Have any of you experienced this and if so, do you have a solution?
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 12:37, 8 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

the problem there
is that you have office 2007. which is an enormous piece of shit.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 12:47, Reply)

Good point
damn Microsoft and their office software that I've had no problems with until this.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 12:55, Reply)

is your mydocs folder redirexted
vista doesn't like redirections to mapped drives ... I always use unc paths. Also has your sync files failed or intermittent?
(CheatingRabbit, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 14:07, Reply)

the other main question is
is it LEGAL software? or stolen from the internetz?!!! that does sometimes fuck things up




legal software is crap
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 14:23, Reply)

yup
Vista, Office and Paintshop Pro are all genuine
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 14:38, Reply)

This is because it is BROKEN
Hit it with a hammer and try again.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 14:37, Reply)

When you have the spreadsheet open
save it as a new file with a different name.

Can you load the copy each time ok or not?
(beer knight starts when the sun is over the yardarm, Wed 5 Aug 2009, 23:17, Reply)

Try this...
support.microsoft.com/kb/211494

Only for Excel though. Don't know about the rest of Office. However, from reading a few forum posts, looks like it may be triggered if you have multiple versions of Office (or have had other versions of Office) on your computer.

You might need to uninstall Office, run the MSinstaller cleanup utility to remove all traces of Office (here: support.microsoft.com/kb/290301) then reinstall it.
( chart cat has an itch, Thu 6 Aug 2009, 4:39, Reply)