SubscribeB2TR Issues
Important: Office 2007 Beta Ending Soon
Important: Please do NOT email me asking for assistance. Please post all your issues directly into the appropriate Microsoft community newsgroup.
Important: With RTM downloads now available, do NOT mix Beta and RTM!
For RTM issues, see my RTM issues post.
Now that B2TR has been released, the first issues are cropping up. You should read this BEFORE installing B2TR.
Everyone
- Microsoft is recommending that everyone delete the “Building Blocks.dotx” file in order to have the most up-to-date content in galleries. To do so, use Start, Run, type “%appdata%\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks” and delete the file “Building Blocks.dotx” there. Word will recreate the file automatically once you open it again and drop-down a gallery. Note that you shouldn’t delete the file, if you moved the Building Blocks (galleries e.g.) content.
- The RSS support of Outlook has been significantly improved in B2TR. Due to that, Microsoft is recommending to follow the steps outlined in this MS blog post.
File Not Found / File Not Available
- When you try to open files in Access, PPT, Word or Excel B2TR, you receive the message “File not Found”. Or, your files just won’t open.
Solution (from the known issues page): Office has an anti-virus API which we call every time we load a file. In 2007 Microsoft Office a change was made to support scanning encrypted macros. In making this change, we inadvertently changed the size of a data structure in the conversation, and Symantec’s Norton scanner returns an error saying this was unexpected. We treat ANY error from the scanner as a critical failure and block opening files. Unfortunately we do that in ALL cases where the scanner is called. In short with 2007 Office Beta 2 Technical Refresh and Norton Antivirus (any version) the user cannot open any files in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, Access and Project. The user receives an error of File failed to open, File not found, etc.
We currently only see this with the Symantec’s Consumer Norton AV product. Most corporate deployments do not use this plug-in. We are also checking other scanners to see if they are affected. In the Norton case the best option is to disable the Office plug-in. See Method 2: in this KB for guidance on how to do that. - When you try to open files in Excel B2TR, you receive the message “File not Found”.
Solution: In Excel, this could be due to the following checkbox being checked: Excel Options, Advanced, General section, Ignore other applications that use Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE).
File Format Issues / Corrupted Files
- It is good practice to save all files created in the new file formats (docx, xlsx, pptx, etc) in the 97-2003 file formats (doc, xls, ppt, etc) before installing B2TR. If there any issues with your files in B2TR, you are then able to resort to the versions in the older file formats.
- Files created in B1 and B1TR will NOT open in B2TR. You need to save them under a different file name in B2.
- Word files saved in Beta 2 in the new XML file format (dotx, dotm, etc) should open in Word B2TR. If you are having issues with a file, please email it to me right away. As a precaution though, you should save all your Word files in the 97-2003 document formats (doc, dot) in Beta 2 before installing B2TR. This will guarantee that you can still open them in B2TR.
- Files created in Excel 2007 Beta 2 in the new XML file formats should open in Excel B2TR without any problems. If you experience any problems with these files, please email them to me right away.
- Files created in PowerPoint Beta 2 in the new XML file formats should open in PowerPoint B2TR. If you experience any problems with these files, please email them to me right away.
The only exception is: Custom Colors and Custom Fonts saved as a theme (*.thmx) or presentation (*.pptx) from Beta2 do not show up in Theme Colors or Theme Fonts galleries when opened/applied in Beta 2 Technical Refresh (B2TR). - When you open Word or Outlook, it complains about “Normal.dotm” or “NormalEmail.dotm” being corrupt or being in the wrong format.
Solution: The issue should disappear when you open Outlook/Word again. If that isn’t the case, type “%appdata%\Microsoft\Templates” into Start, Run (this is the location for Windows XP), and rename the two files there to something else. This will force Outlook/Word to recreate them from scratch in the correct format. - When you open Word and when you try to insert an item from a gallery, you get a message that “Building Blocks.dotx” is corrupted.
Solution: Start, Run, type “%appdata%\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks” and delete the file “Building Blocks.dotx” there. Word will recreate the file correctly when you open it again. - When you open a new XML file format Word document (dotx, dotm, etc) in Word 2007 B2TR, you receive a message that the file is corrupted.
Solution: The file you tried to open was most likely created in B1 or B1TR. B2TR cannot read files created in B1 or B1TR. You should open the file in B2 and save it using Save As under a new filename. As an additional precaution, you should also save it in the 97-2003 document formats (doc, dot).
Installation of B2TR
- There is a minimum requirement for 2.0 GB of free space on the Windows
partition in order to install the client patch. This is a hard requirement
that is needed because of the large size of the client patch (nearly 500
mb), and the way that Windows Installer patching works. Some of this space
will be returned after installation, but no more than 500 mb can be expected
to be returned after installation. If you do not have enough disk space on
this partition, you should take steps to increase the amount of free space. - If you have tampered with the \MSOCache folder or it is damaged in some
way, you will be prompted for the source files. Do not move or delete this
folder. - The B2TR patch cannot be uninstalled. The only way to revert your installation back to Beta 2 is to remove Office 2007 completely and the reinstall Beta 2.
- Once you have installed the B2TR patch, you cannot install any Office 2007 Beta 2 programs anymore.
- If you downloaded the German language pack for Beta 2 English, then you have to download the full German B2TR patch as well. Otherwise, the German spell checker will crash in Outlook and Word. In addition, you need to get the German B2TR SLP patch as well. The SLP specific patch does not include the German spell checker which is contained in the full German B2TR patch. If you want to, you can also extract proof-de-de.msp from the full German B2TR patch and install it and the German SLP patch only.
- See this KB article for troubleshooting B2TR installation issues.
- B2TR and all B2TR downloads (e.g. PDF add-in) are compatible with Vista RC1. If you want do a clean install of Vista RC1 with Office 2007, then install RC1 first, followed by Office 2007 Beta 2 and then B2TR. If you have a current installation of Vista Beta 2 with Office 2007 Beta 2, then install B2TR first followed by the update to Vista RC1.
- Do not install B2TR on Vista Beta 2, if you are not planning to immediately upgrade to Vista RC1. B2TR is designed for Vista RC1 and you will probably not be able to use Office 2007 B2TR under Vista B2.
- If you find yourself unable to remove Office 2007 B2TR or to reinstall Office 2007 Beta 2 after removing it, please contact me via email.
- If you have OneNote 2007 installed, please read my OneNote B2TR post as well.
Instant Search, BCM, PDF, XPS, Add-Ins, Expression Web, Links in Outlook, Misc
- Instant search for Outlook and OneNote is not available in Vista Beta 2.
Solution: You need to upgrade to Vista RC1. - All add-ins written for Office 2007 don’t work anymore, and/or give error messages.
Solution: Disable those add-ins for now and wait for updates from the developers. Microsoft changed a lot. The new control ID list is now available for download (posted by Jensen Harris and linked from his blog). You can now also get the new customUI.xsd. - BCM Beta 2 is not compatible with Outlook 2007 B2TR.
Solution: Download BCM B2TR - After installing B2TR, files cannot be saved in PDF or XPS format.
Solution: Due to a legal disagreement with Adobe, Microsoft is providing XPS and PDF functionality only as downloadable add-ins (PDF, XPS, PDF and XPS). - Windows Desktop Search 3 Beta 1 is not compatible with Outlook and OneNote B2TR.
Solution: Install Windows Desktop Search 3 Beta 2. - Expression Web Beta 1 can be installed after the B2TR patch has been applied.
- In Outlook 2007 B2TR running under Vista RC1, you receive the error message “This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator” when you click a link in Outlook.
Solution: FireFox seems to be responsible for this. Check this blog post for steps on how to resolve the error. - Word 2007 crashes moments after opening under Vista RC1. Your default printer is a Dell 5100CN network printer.
Solution: Make a different printer your default printer. - If you have a completely corrupted Ribbon after installing B2TR, remove all Office 2007 applications and reinstall them again as Beta 2 followed by B2TR.
- You cannot use Word 2007 as Outlook 2003’s email editor. Outlook 2003 was not designed to work with Word 2007. This is not a bug. This is by design.
I’ll keep updating this post with new information.
If you can’t find the solution to an issue here, please check the official known issues list.
You can download B2TR here. All B2TR downloads are available on the Microsoft download page.
Hint: If you have subscribed to my blog with Outlook 2007 B2TR and would like to be told by Outlook whenever I update this post, then go into Tools, Options, Other, Advanced Options and check “Any RSS Feed item that is updated appears as a new item”. This will ensure that this post is marked as unread by Outlook after I posted an update.
Note: All the examples and add-ins posted on this blog do NOT work with B2TR. I’ll be updating them in the coming days/weeks.
Last updated 2006-09-29 12:08 ET
September 14th, 2006 at 21:19
[…] Excellent post by Patrick Schmid! […]
September 14th, 2006 at 21:28
Great information Patrick! Thanks for taking the time to put this together so quickly - You have done us all a great service!
September 14th, 2006 at 21:32
Kathy,
you are welcome
What better way for a nerd to spend most of his bday than installing a new beta build..?
Patrick
September 15th, 2006 at 2:06
[…] Beta 2 Technical Refresh Available Now This morning, the Beta 2 Technical Refresh of the 2007 Microsoft Office system became available for download. You can download it now from the Microsoft Download Center. (The download link above is the main download link. You also view the list of all available Beta 2 Technical Refresh updates for client and server by clicking the Beta 2 Technical Refresh link on this page.) You must have Beta 2 installed in order to patch it to Beta 2 Technical Refresh, so don’t uninstall Beta 2. Why a patch instead of a full release? Primarily because we need to test the patching technology broadly, and this is a great chance to make sure it works well. Patching is the way we release updates to Office after it ships, so making sure it works well is an important part of the beta process. Please also consider downloading the Send a Smile Feedback Tool to tell us what you think about Office 2007. If you already had it installed from Beta 2, you can continue to use it in B2TR. In my post yesterday, I posted a list of the most substantive changes to the user interface in the new build. Consider this by no means a full list of changes in B2TR—just those in the UI. I’ve also posted a list of Ribbon Control IDs for use with B2TR for RibbonX developers. These should also show up on MSDN sometime in the next few weeks. It’s a 1.3 MB download (.zip file) if you need to grab it now. Note: If you’re having trouble installing the patch, try following the instructions in this article. Note 2: Patrick Schmid is keeping a great log of solutions to common installation issues with B2TR. […]
September 15th, 2006 at 9:33
Hi,
“Document Building Blocks”
tested hard way - before reading your blog:
==
When you open Word and when you try to insert an item from a gallery, you get a message that Building Blocks.dotx is corrupted.
Solution: Start, Run, type %appdata%\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks and delete the file Building Blocks.dotx there. Word will recreate the file correctly when you open it again.
==
or copy “proper” version from:
Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\
Document Parts\1033\Building Blocks.dotx
(date: 2006-07-28)
(as I did).
And for every registered user.
September 15th, 2006 at 12:48
I have been deleting this Building Blocks.dotx from the wrong folder all the time.
After I deleted them from “C:\Users\Myname\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks\1033″ Word does no longer mention the “Building Blocks”file BUT still stops working…
September 15th, 2006 at 19:05
ChrisN - Thanks for the alternate approach! Worked for me!
September 15th, 2006 at 20:41
I’m seeing a couple pixel white border along the bottom and right sides when viewing powerpoint presentations (in the 2003 file format if it makes any difference). Is there any known workaround for this?
September 15th, 2006 at 22:08
Installed new release….but data file in Outlook not closing properly. Agreed with comments above otherwise.
September 16th, 2006 at 6:08
I had this problem here:
When you open Word and when you try to insert an item from a gallery, you get a message that “Building Blocks.dotx” is corrupted.
Solution: Start, Run, type “%appdata%\Microsoft\Document Building Blocks” and delete the file “Building Blocks.dotx” there. Word will recreate the file correctly when you open it again.
Thankfully, the information you provided fixed the problem, and now i can add headers and footers to my documents. Thanks for this information, without it, i would have been lost as to what was going wrong.
September 17th, 2006 at 6:33
Excellent post. I also had the building blocks problem and tried to deinstall Office 2007 and reinstall it again.
Unfortunately I was not able to install Beta2 again and so I hat do get back to a system restore point.
After deleting building blocks (as you mentioned) everything worked fine again.
Another issue is that modified bibliography stylesheets that worked with Beta2 are not compatible with Beta2TR (they are not even loaded). I think this is caused by changing field naming on certain fields by Microsoft.
September 17th, 2006 at 10:07
[…] Inevitably, there are those experiencing installation and first-run issues and Patrick Schmid, who has been a tireless contributor to the beta test community, has begun assembling a list of issues and resolutions on his blog. […]
September 17th, 2006 at 13:12
[…] Forewarned is forearmed but after I rushed to install the new Beta refresh at work. I found that Excel files with embedded comments were marked as damaged. And all my Word 2007 .docx files had to be recovered. And make sure to bookmark Patrick Schmid’s blog on Office 2007 B2TR Issues. […]
September 19th, 2006 at 0:51
I have an issue regarding Word changes in the b2tr.
I can not change text direction in text boxes anymore. I just tried it in beta2 and it works seemlessly. But in b2tr, the button is disabled no matter what. So is the button to rotate the text box which worked fine in beta2. I have tried it in 3 different machines with the b2tr and a laptop with beta2 which I have not updated.
I dont know if this is the right place to ask, but could anybody help me in this regard? Is anyone else experiencing the same issue?
Thanks for you help.
September 19th, 2006 at 1:53
I could not installed the B2TR.
Everytime I run the update, it didn’t show any menu, it’s just idle (only the first 5 seconds, there’s HDD activities).
I already checked task manager to see whether B2TR was running, it was for about less than 10 seconds and then dissapear from the task manager.
I already cleaned up the temp folder, and have 2.3GB Free space.
Anyone can help?
Thanks.
September 19th, 2006 at 7:33
@Voltus5: the same thing occured to me, you have to wait for it to load (I waited for 2 minutes for the installation window to appear). It is, after all a freakin’ LARGE file, so it will require some patience to load.
September 19th, 2006 at 8:09
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September 19th, 2006 at 9:16
Trend Micro Anti-Spam Pilot, one of the best spam solution that I have tested is not working any more. TEO, an add-in for Tablet PC/UMPC users is not working any more.
September 19th, 2006 at 9:20
Ctitanic,
TEO seems to be a 2007-specific add-in. As noted above, all of those were broken with B2TR and developers will need to update them. This can take some time, e.g. I haven’t updated mine yet.
I don’t know what’s going on with Trend Micro Anti-Spam Pilot, but you should contact Trend Micro and ask for help.
Patrick
September 19th, 2006 at 9:30
I have contacted both developers. TEO is aware of this situation and has started to work on it. Trend Micro was not aware of this situation with Office 2007 so I sent them today the link to this page.
September 19th, 2006 at 11:12
Hi, Patrick — This is not intended as criticism, so please accept it with a smile, as that is how it is meant.
It’s a mini grammar lesson. It’s true that people are terribly abusing their “me” and “I” pronouns these days, but I am afraid you have over-compensated.
In your title, “Patrick Schmid: Putting You & I back into Office 2007’s UI - B2TR Issues”, the correct use would be, “Putting You & Me back . . . .”
Why? Because “I” is the subjective, “in-charge” pronoun, and “me” is the objective receiver of the action. You and I go to the market, but you give me your good advice. In your title, Patrick Schmid is the active force who is telling it as it is to two passive receivers, who must be you and me; not you and I. (”You” gives no hint, as it has just the one form.)
So: You and I confer with Patrick. Patrick tells you and me what to do. If I were you, I would listen to Patrick. Patrick will never fail me. I have always taken Patrick’s advice. I see that Patrick has given me more information. —All of those examples are correct. “I” is subjective, in-charge, the doer of the action. “Me” is objective, the receiver of the action. The really common, really bad form you hear on the street, especially among kids, is “Me and Patrick went to the movies”, and that is BAD!! (Should be, “Patrick and I went to the movies.”)
I just thought you might be interested. After all, the rest of what I read here is 100% your expertise, and I am far, far behind . . . .
Thanks a lot.
C.
September 19th, 2006 at 11:21
Hi Carson,
thanks for the grammar lesson. I actually violated grammar on purpose, as “You and Me” wouldn’t work with my word play. The whole point of “You & I” is that it sounds similar to “UI”.
Patrick
September 20th, 2006 at 2:38
Hi.
Im a user of the office beta 2 and I decided to install the update. Everything was right until I opened my excel, and it is totally wrecked and dont work anymore; even de ribbon.
I cant send the picts so you guys can see whats going on. Anyone who can help??
Thanks in advance!!
Alvaro S.
September 20th, 2006 at 21:23
@Bruce
Thanks for your advice.
I had let it run for about 15 minutes with no avail.
After the UAC menu appeared, click Allow, then it’s gone, just idle, nothing happened.
Any suggestion please?
September 20th, 2006 at 22:51
Voltus,
send me an email please. I’ll help you with it privately.
Patrick
September 24th, 2006 at 5:22
There is a little problem when installing Word 2007 parallel to Outlook 2003.
When writing an E-Mail Outlook complains that it is not able to find Word 2003 and so you have to use the Outlook 2003 text editor (no spelling-checker, …).
Everything was fine with Beta 2, this problem came up with Beta 2 TR.
Do you know any solution?
September 24th, 2006 at 12:49
I’m having problems with B2TR on my PC, and I’ve trawled the ‘net far and wide, to no avail - I can’t find any solution and/or even discussion of my problem, so I hope someone here knows what happened.
I’m using the french version, and after the TR installation, all programs have become completely unusable: the entire UI is corrupt, in Word, Powerpoint, Publisher and Excel. The menus don’t work at all, although the ribbon in Word looks normal, although only on the first tab - the other tabs simply don’t exist.
Outlook simply won’t start, citing lack of resources. Powerpoint actually tells me something is corrupt, and to close all files and restart Powerpoint.
In Publisher, functionality seems correct, until you look at the menus: ‘File’ has ben replaced by ‘Unread element’, and in that menu, you have various unrelated options (like ‘view calendar’ and that sort of things) as well as oriental characters (to my untrained eye, they look like Traditional Chinese, but I could be wrong).
Screenshots have been put up online if you want to have a look at it: www.etudesfrancaises.com/b2tr is the very hastily-thrown-up place to go.
Thanks!
(I’ve tried reparing the install, and Office Diagnostics, to no avail.)
September 24th, 2006 at 17:49
Awesome website, I’ve looked to solve the building blocks error for some time now, and not until now I actually managed to find how to solve it.
I will continue to look at this site for solutions and goodies, awesome work, thanks.
September 25th, 2006 at 16:32
Just wanting to thank you for making this great website. Thanks to you, i got the document building blocks working again, and my documents look good again. Microsoft should write such things on their site! They could learn something from you!
Again, thank you very much.
September 27th, 2006 at 4:42
Hi Eric,
Hi Patrick,
I am also experiencing simillar problem with upgrading to B2TR. If you manage to fix this issue can you please post the solution here. By the way, I am using the English version and still having the same problem with the ribbons in all office application (the text is unreadable and the icons are not there).
Thanks!
September 27th, 2006 at 8:39
Ali,
send me an email. Eric and I are troubleshooting this via email directly.
Patrick
September 28th, 2006 at 13:45
WJ,
I checked with Microsoft on your issue. Outlook 2003 is not designed to work with Word 2007. You were lucky it worked in Beta 2, but this won’t work by design.
Patrick
September 29th, 2006 at 12:53
“Once you have installed the B2TR patch, you cannot install any Office 2007 Beta 2 programs anymore.”
Huh? Are there going to be more Office 2007 Beta 2 programs? Let’s hope the next beta is called Beta 3.
September 29th, 2006 at 13:58
David,
Office 2007 Beta 2 includes several different programs that come in various installer packages:
- Professional Plus has Access, Excel, InfoPath, Outlook, PPT, Publisher, Word
- Groove
- SharePoint Designer
- OneNote
- Project Professional
- Visio Professional
So if you just installed Professional Plus Beta 2 and then patched it to B2TR, you cannot install Groove, SPD, OneNote, Project or Visio 2007 anymore as they would have to be installed as Beta 2 and then as well patched to B2TR. However, once B2TR is installed, no Beta 2 program will install anymore.
There won’t be any next beta anymore according to various news reports. According to those, the next Office 2007 build will be the release one.
Patrick
September 29th, 2006 at 16:11
Why in the world is the Office install writing to the Windows partition, and requring 2 GB free there? The Office install should write to the Office partition and the Temp partition, and leave its permanent installed files in the Office partition.
Unless Office, like Internet Explorer, is now part of Windows? ? ?
September 29th, 2006 at 16:21
David,
the Office B2 install is copying its MSI files into \MSOCache, which should be on the same partition as the Office program files. You should not mess with this folder, as messing with it will give you grave problems when installing patches/updates. The B2TR patch however does not modify the contents of the \MSOCache folder. This particular folder is something specific to Office and has been around in 2003 already (where you could delete it. MS got rid of that option in 2007, as deleting MSOCache created an enormous amount of issues with 2003).
In addition to that, Windows Installer itself puts files in some places. B2 goes into \windows\installer\$PatchCache$\Managed
B2TR goes into \windows\installer (the 6 .MSP files with an 8/26/06 date). Those files are written there by Windows Installer and programs that use Windows Installer end up having files written to windows\installer.
So no, Office is definitely not part of Windows. To the contrary, Microsoft has stripped out of Office 2007 features that should be operating system features, such as speech recognition. Those are now part of Windows (Vista). MS has gone to great lengths to make sure Office is just Office and doesn’t play at all in the domain of the OS. The installer issue affects Windows programs in general and Office is nothing special in this regard.
I hope this explains it.
Patrick
October 1st, 2006 at 1:43
[…] B2TR is the odd one in this list, as it is a patch for Beta 2. That means, users need to install Beta 2 and then install the B2TR patch to end up with the newest Office 2007 beta version. Office 2007 B2TR is set to expire on March 31, 2007. If you haven’t installed it yet or are experiencing some problems, please visit my B2TR issues page. […]
October 2nd, 2006 at 15:54
Hey Patrick,
Thanks so much for the feedback on your site. You put a lot of effort into this for sure!
I am confused on an install. i have a copy of the opplus-en and have installed it. it does not give me the option to install project of visio. Everywhere i read it says they are included but i cannot find them in that file. Is there somewhere else i should look? Am i missing something?
Thanks!
Clint
October 2nd, 2006 at 15:59
Clint,
Project and Visio are included in Office 2007, but as separate downloads. There is one download for Project and another one for Visio.
Patrick
October 2nd, 2006 at 19:04
Hey Patrick
As encountering the same situation as Eric and Ali
I would please like to hear of any progress in your troubleshooting effords?
I have tried several unistall/install cycles - and I’m getting pretty good at it and the Beta 2 looks really good … untill I install B2TR.
I’m installing B2 on my D-drive, while Windows XP (DK-version) resides on my C-drive.
Thank you for an excellent site and blog!
Best regards
Erik Bo
October 2nd, 2006 at 19:08
Hi Erik,
the issue persits even after uninstalling all of Office 2007 and reinstalling it? If yes, then you just won the jackpot
Send me an email with a screenshot and I’ll work with you on resolving it.
Patrick
October 2nd, 2006 at 23:45
You have excellent tips. I’d like to ask for help.
I installed the B2TR on top of my Beta install (with Business Contact Manager). I then installed the new version of BCM.
When I start Outlook, each time!, it recognizes that BCM is installed, but it puts me through the “Choose your database” screen, then into the Wizard Help screen. When I click Finish, it crashes and says there has been a critical error.
Any ideas?
October 3rd, 2006 at 0:41
Bill,
please post your question in the Outlook MS newsgroup. I don’t know anything about BCM, but people there do.
Patrick
October 3rd, 2006 at 14:21
Yo All!
It helped to threaten with Patrick!
After 2 more uninstallation (Add/Remove Programs+WinInstallCleanUp)-install (antivirus scan off; WinInstall log: voicewarmup) cycles everything works just fine.
Don’t ask me why?
Thanks again Patrick for supporting and helping out!
Best regards
Erik Bo
October 3rd, 2006 at 15:36
Thanks for all the work. You saved me from pulling my hair out following installation of BT2TR-EVENTUALLY!
Ps I like the new outlook but find the tabs system messy!
October 7th, 2006 at 11:49
bcm b2tr will not install and is asking for setup files on source disk or the original install location. ???
October 9th, 2006 at 2:32
Patrick Schmid - Thanks man for all your help. People like you help make the world a better place. I found the cannot insert pages numbers solution on your site. Thanks again Man!
October 9th, 2006 at 19:03
[…] Bei Installationsproblemen hilft euch vielleicht M$ weiter und bei Probleme nach der Installation koennt ihr einfach mal bei pschmid.net vorbeischauen, vielleicht findet ihr dort eine Loesung,Volkan ‘ne kleine FAQ zusammengestellt und bei office2007-blog.de bekommt ihr allgemeine und Insider-Infos rund um Office 2007. […]
October 12th, 2006 at 5:15
Hi Patrick,
I was able to install all B2TR components successfully. Afterwards I also did the SharePoint Reconfiguration successfully. However, when I try to open Central Administration page it says that “An unexpected Error Occured.”
Please help me in resolving this issue.
Regards,
Shalin Parmar
October 12th, 2006 at 5:18
Sorry Shalin, I can’t help with B2TR Server component issues.
October 12th, 2006 at 11:48
Anyone else had issues with Themes not fully applying to OneNote (actually no interface within ON or OL to change theme… have to go into Word to change). ON then applies theme to title bar, but not menu bar and panes….
October 12th, 2006 at 12:06
…. found it…. http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2006/08/14/699304.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage
October 12th, 2006 at 16:48
A big thank you for solving my two main probles with B2TR: Building Blocks and Norton AV! Thanks for taking the time to write this up!
October 19th, 2006 at 1:24
Thank you so much for helping me out in resolving my page numbering problem. Thank you for your time and effort.
October 20th, 2006 at 15:27
Hi all,
I installed Office 2007, and then installed B2TR. All the core software is working fine now.
But, I also bought (for a whole $1.50!) Outlook ‘07 BCM. I downloaded and went through the whole install process, including the reg key and EULA window, but before it installed completely I got this:
Wizard .exe
The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.
I’ve since read here that I can’t install a pre-B2TR program, like Outlook ‘07 B2, after I’ve installed Office B2TR. (Which sucks, because I also bought Project and Visio, and hadn’t installed them yet. I’ve only tried Project so far, but it won’t install either.)
Anyway, at this moment I’m downloading Outlook ‘07 BCM B2TR (BCMBeta2TR.exe) Before I click ‘run,’ will it install when I already have Outlook B2TR installed?
By the way, thank you for your good work here, Patrick. I’m fortunate to have found your virtual presence.
October 20th, 2006 at 15:29
Andy,
yes, that’s the program you need to install to get BCM.
Patrick
October 23rd, 2006 at 0:23
Thanks for the info Patrick. Wish stuff like this was posted on Microsoft’s site.
cheers
tom
October 24th, 2006 at 7:15
Ok, so I updated my Beta 2 to the technical refresh. Now, I cannot read or recover my .docx files that I incidentally saved instead of their .doc counterparts. Is there any way to get these documents opened in Word TR without going through the process of removing TR and re-installing Beta 2? I’ve tried the “Open and Repair” function, but that didn’t work…
October 24th, 2006 at 10:36
Arjan,
did you read the section above about Norton AntiVirus (Everyone section)?
That should help.
Patrick
October 24th, 2006 at 20:07
Downloaded the B2TR and every thing works fine fortunately, however I did get the building blocks thing a couple of times and that went away. What I am really concerned about is that I lost the fancy headers and footers and most of the decorative coverpages is there any way to get these back. I really miss using them to impress fellow students and professors when writing reports.
October 24th, 2006 at 20:09
Delete the Building Blocks fie as described above. Then open up any of those galleries. Word should restore the file automatically.
Patrick
October 27th, 2006 at 2:40
Patrick,
I have an issue with Access 2007, created a simple program that captures data, and filters this data into a report, this program runs perfectly in 2003 but when i run it in 2007 the filters in the code don’t function, any idea how to solve this?
October 27th, 2006 at 2:42
Tumi,
I suggest you ask your question in an Access community newsgroup.
Patrick
November 24th, 2006 at 2:51
Patrick (or anyone who might have encountered this problem) I had BR2 and was having issues with Outlook with Business Contact where the SQL database wouldn’t start. (the services themselves were somehow disabled. I downloaded the B2TR flavours of Office and Outlook with BCM, patched office just fine, but the BCM failed to load. The warning dialog tells me that I am missing setup files. After reading through this site, I dug through my HD and foudn that the /msoffice files are all in place and everything seems to be where it should be.
I have tried to dig through the MS site to no avail on this issue and can’t seem to find anyone else that this issue prehaps you can help or give me a clue as to where to search?
November 28th, 2006 at 18:47
David,
I don’t know BCM at all, so I suggest you check out the public newsgroups for Outlook. You can get to them with the link all the way on the top of this page.
Patrick
November 29th, 2006 at 6:37
Ever since i have tried to install the B2TR I cant run the Office Programs anymore. Every time I try to open for example Word I get the information:
„Word konnte zuletzt nicht korrekt gestartet warden. Das Starten von Word im abesichterm Modus hilff Ihnen, ein Startprolem zu korrigieren oder zu isolieren, sodass Sie das Programm erfolgreich starten können. Einige Funktionen können in diesem Modus deaktiviert sein.“
When i then klick on „yes“ it seem fist to start up normaly but then I get into the Window installer window and it starts to install some stuff. After installation it somehow still does not work. Any idea what it could be?
November 29th, 2006 at 10:06
David,
Which Windows version?
Patrick
November 29th, 2006 at 15:33
Hello, I updated to B2TR from B2 and now have issues with Outlook. Everytime I click on Send/Receive, I get the following error message: ‘Not implemented’
My details are:
Windows XP Pro SP2
Office 97, 2000, xp, 2003, 2007 B2TR
Outlook 2007 correctly replaced my 2003 version.
Thanks for any help.
November 29th, 2006 at 15:34
Charlie,
run Office Diagnostics (Start, All Programs, Microsoft Office, Office Tools). It should give you a hint as to what is wrong.
Patrick
November 30th, 2006 at 20:17
Patrick,
Thanks, that was a good start as I found I had both Outlook 2003 & 2007 installed. So, after uninstalling Outlook 2003, and tinkering with this a little more, I found that instead of Uninstalling or Repairing Office 2007 (which can take a loooooong time), just going to Add/Remove Programs—>Office 2007—>Change—>Add/Remove, and fixing all the Outlook issues there did the trick. Hope this helps others.
Charlie
December 12th, 2006 at 11:10
Patrick,
I have a problem with the page numbering on the BT2r of Word. I deleted all Building Block files. I restarted Word, and the page numbering function still doesn’t work. I even checked to see if any functions were disabled, and they aren’t. Is there any workaround? Thanks,
Avi
December 12th, 2006 at 11:23
Avi,
if you deleted both copies of Building Blocks on your computer, then run a repair of Office (Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Change Office 2007, Repair)
Patrick
December 12th, 2006 at 17:33
Patrick,
Thank you. After showing invisible files, I made sure to delete the temporary files of Building Blocks. Afterwards, I ran the repair of Office, and voila–The pagination now works!
Avi
January 3rd, 2007 at 14:39
Hi Patrick,
I have installed Office Beta 2 and then B2TR. I can’t open the programs of files. Windows acts like it is setting up every time I open Word, then it says to check with setup.chm.
I think starting again is in order, but how do I remove the first beta 2 without corrupting the rest?
Thanks - you are a great source of real info here!!
Pat
January 9th, 2007 at 12:29
Hi Pat,
I’d deactivate the Office plugin of Norton AntiVirus first. Then I’d remove all of the beta and install the trial version from http://trymicrosoftoffice.com.
Patrick
January 19th, 2007 at 16:44
Thanks great advice!
January 22nd, 2007 at 8:03
Hi Patrick,
I’m having difficulties in printing a workbook .xlsm to pdf printer from a vba code, it result a blank page. I use pdfcreator, PrimoPdf, and adobe. all results blank page that curious me a lot. If you don’t mind, i could send you the .xlsm, since i’m frustating finding the answer.
if i run it from excel 2003, it worked 100%. nothing wrong if print from others application, such as notepad, wordpad. it’s just problem in excel 2007 beta 2.
well, my environtmen are: WinXp sp2, Excel 2007 beta 2. (and zone alarm pro is running in desktop.).
Please, help me…
Thanks in advance,
mike
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:46
Mike,
you should remove Beta 2 and install a trial version from http://trymicrosoftoffice.com. Beta 2 is so old and buggy, there is no point in even trying to troubleshoot this.
Patrick
February 10th, 2007 at 19:05
Since removing Office 2007 beta 2, in Word when I try to use the thesaurus I get an Office Setup dialog. When it finishes there are no synonymns for a simple word such a “nice”. Messages to two Word newsgroups went unanswered. Makes me want to go back to WordPerfect!
February 10th, 2007 at 19:41
Bernard,
you might have to remove Office 2007 using the manual removal steps and then reinstall it.
Patrick
October 27th, 2008 at 18:14
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