I miss my Offcat

Do I need my office assistant? no

Do I care that you think the office assistant is a waste of processor capacity? not right now -- mebee later, we can start a whole new discussion about all the things that waste processor capacity unnecessarily.

Do I use all of my processor so that I need to worry about wasting it on a silly paperclip or flying dog or whatever? no

:wave: Now that we have that covered, at work here, we have Office 2000 for Word and Excel and Powerpoint...Just upgraded Outlook to 2003...OS is Win2k.

Since the upgrade to Outlook - when starting any of the other Office 2000 items the popup comes up and says "the office assistant could not be started" and then it tells you to repair and reinstall.

We have tried fixing - we have tried unistalling outlook and office and still error city.

Microsoft does have info on the error and they want to either turn on virtual memory or to increase the filepage size (for win2000) - and I have cranked up the page size to no avail.

Now, here is the part where I think I am on to something but I am not sure what: if I start one of the Office 2000 items first, Word, Powerpoint, or Excel - then start Outlook - the error goes away.

I have tried googling - I have tried Microsoft's knowledge base - I have tried the Microsoft discussion groups (gads what an appalling UI that thing is) and no help anywhere. Anyone got any bright ideas ---you know besides asking the boss if we can buy Office 2003 so I can have a kitty-cat animation on my desktop?

thanks a ton

more office assistants to waste your processor