Solutions built for Office programs may not work with Office 2003 Beta2 (822046)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2003
  • Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
  • Microsoft Office Outlook 2003
  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
  • Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
  • Microsoft Office Word 2003
  • Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003
  • Microsoft Office Student and Teachers Edition 2003
  • Microsoft Office Small Business Edition 2003
  • Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003
  • Microsoft Office Access 2003
Note The symptoms that are described in this article apply only to the beta version of this product. This issue does not occur in the final release of Microsoft Office 2003.

SYMPTOMS

When you try to automatically activate a Microsoft Office 2003 beta program, the Office 2003 beta program that you try to activate is not activated as expected. Instead, you may receive a runtime error message.

This problem occurs when you are trying to automatically activate an Office 2003 program by one of the following solutions:
  • A Visual Basic application.
  • A macro from within an Office program.
  • Another solution that involves Microsoft Office.

CAUSE

This issue occurs because the text in the title bar of Office 2003 Beta2 programs is different from the text in previous versions of Office. When a solution tries to activate an Office program, the argument it sends to the AppActivate method requires the name of the program as it appears in the title bar. Because the title bar is different in the Beta2 version of Office, the process does not complete successfully.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this issue, install one of the following updated versions of Office.
  • Microsoft Office 2003 Beta2 TR
  • Microsoft Office 2003 (RTM)

Important You must perform a full install from CD-ROM. If you only update or patch your existing installation of Office 2003 Beta, the problem is not resolved.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:9/27/2006
Keywords:kbactivation kbProgramming kberrmsg kbprb KB822046 kbAudEndUser
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