Microsoft Office..

[TOR_LordRaven]

Wierd problem im running into in office.

Trying to help a buddy out. He is running XP 64-bit, and office 2003.

He was sent an office 07 document and couldn't open it, so we installed the combat-pack, and it works now.

But now, there is a problem: All the menus are blank.

File - Edit - View.. Etc. are all Blank.

You click on file, and the menu drops down, but there is nothing there and you can't click in it.

If you know the hot-keys they still work. Alt+F+P opens the print window, as an example.

Tried Office Repair, no luck. Re-Installed office fresh, still no dice. Suggested OpenOffice, but he didn't want to go that route (and I don't blame him)

Did a google search, but I must not be using the right phrase because nothing (helpful) comes up.

Any ideas?

[ccb056]

Uninstall all the .net frameworks and reinstall the latest one.

[TOR_LordRaven]

uninstall them all and only re-install the latest ?

[AceCombat]

Uninstall all the .net frameworks and reinstall the latest one.

should work, i had to do the same thing

[Zantor]

There is a compatibility pack for reading office 07 documents in office 03. You need to get it to read 07 document formats.

[Foil]

There is a compatibility pack for reading office 07 documents in office 03. You need to get it to read 07 document formats.

He did:

He was sent an office 07 document and couldn't open it, so we installed the combat-pack, and it works now.

[Topher]

This likely a bug in 2003 running in WOW. This can cause 32-bit pointers to use the top bit and older applications don't handle this as well. There are a few other apps I've seen where this happens.

Make sure you haven't changed the allocation preference to be top down. When it's top down this will happen all the time.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... S.85).aspx