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[KB242]Compatibility problem between PlantVue and Office 2003

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16 years ago
By RM
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Applies to:

PlantVue versions 2.0 and 2.5.
Summary:

This article describes how to overcome an incompatibility between PlantVue and Office 2003 SP1 on the same PC.
Details:

After PlantVue is de-installed, the Office 2003 applications no longer work. They display a message about a missing or corrupt file. This appears to be due to PlantVue and Office 2003 using different versions of VBA (6.2 & 6.3).

In particular, removal of VBA with PlantVue deletes the Registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.pip, but the Office applications cannot run without it.

Solution

Restore the missing key as follows:

  1. Open the Windows Registry Editor (Start.Run.RegEdit.exe).
  2. In the folder HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, select the key named ‘.pip’.
  3. Double-click on its ‘Default’ name to open the Edit String dialog.
  4. Enter a value of ‘PIPFile’.

RegEdit_dialog_PIP_file_key

  1. Select OK to close the Edit String dialog, then select File.Exit to close the Registry Editor.

Created on: 01 Dec 2010 Last update: 04 Sep 2024