Questions tagged [office-2003]

Questions about Office 2003 should relate to a specific programming problem. Add the tag for the programming language you are using to target an Office 2003 program, as well as the tag of the specific Office 2003 program.

Questions about Office 2003 should relate to a specific programming problem. Add the tag for the programming language you are using to target an Office 2003 program, as well as the tag of the specific Office 2003 program.

Microsoft Office 2003 is a suite of programs for office productivity.

It was released in a variety of bundles, including but not limited to:

  • Microsoft Office 2003 Home and Student (for academic use)
  • Microsoft Office 2003 Professional
  • Microsoft Office 2003 Standard
  • Microsoft Office 2003 Enterprise

Each one comes with a different suite of programs.

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Is it possible to create an Office 2003 VSTO add-in from Visual Studio 2015?

Is it possible to create an Office 2003 VSTO add-in from Visual Studio 2015? Its seem that VS2015 can only create VSTO add-in for Office 2010 and later.
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Is it possible to create ClickOnce-like functionality for an Excel 2003 addin?

I'm working on an Excel 2003 addin (users will upgrade to newer Office, but not any time soon), and am wanting to use functionality to automatically check for a newer version, and deploy it if there is one. I can't use ClickOnce as that is Office…
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COM Exception (code 0x800A03EC) thrown when programmatically changing page breaks in VB.Net

I am attempting to use the VB.Net Excel COM interop to programmatically change the location of the first horizontal page break on an Excel spreadsheet being generated by the program. Code to do so is as follows: Dim range As Excel.Range …
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Issue while establishing connection with excel

The below connection string establishes connection with excel file which has extension as '.xls' but same string throws an exception while opening a connection with file which has extension as .xlsx. Any idea? ConnectionString =…
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What is the use of MS Office related lockbackreg.msi?

I recently noticed that a installer file named lockbackreg.msi is included in a setup package that I use to install a large application on my machine. This file is said to be a MS .NET Update required by Office 2003 for addin functionality but I…
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Deploy VSTO Document solution to Excel 2003

We have an Excel workbook which has c# VSTO code in it and two .NET DLLs that sit behind it. The spreadsheet used to work for all users in the organisation. Recently our IT department had a problem with the OU which deleted all user accounts. The…
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How to extract versions in doc file

In office 2003, we can save different versions of the word document in the same .doc file. But this versions feature is removed from 2007. Is there any option to detect whether the .doc file is having any versions and extract the versions to…
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MS Word: Strange mode where typeover inserts instead

I seem to have gotten Microsoft Word (from Office 2003) into a weird mode. If I select some text with the mouse and "type over" it, the new text is inserted before the selected text instead of replacing it. Same thing happens if I use the Delete or…
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Is it possible to access a COM Object from Linux

Office is running in Wine, meaning I have a running Version (2003). But when I try to create a new COM object I just get the following error: Fatal error: Class 'COM' not found close(); Is there a…
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Making ThisWorkbook talk with ThisAddIn

I have a solution containing an VSTO Excel AddIn project and an VSTO Excel Template project. Is there any design pattern (or hack) that can allow the ThisAddIn instance to access properties and methods of the ThisWorkbook instance, and vice versa? …
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SharePoint document library: Fail to open xlsx in Excel 2003 (with compatibility pack)

My company is using WSS 3.0 to host a document library storing (mostly) Office 2007 format documents. Company PCs have either Office 2003 (with the 2007 compatibility pack) or Office 2007 installed. We didn't have any problem getting docx to work,…
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Outlook 2003 Drag & Drop inbox to outbox confusing behaviour

I recently received a mail directed to a whole bunch of people which I accidentally dropped in the outbox (I think) instead of an archive directory where I wanted to put it. The mail disappeared and moved to my sent items, which is scary because I…
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Excel comment invisible under cell

My excel comment is gone under the cell ...how to make it always on top?
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Excel - Red Cross where a drop down list should be

anyone shed any light as to why this might be happening for one user but not another. Excel 2003 Macro security is set to low; spreadsheet is not read only. Everywhere where there is supposed to be a drop down list, instead of that there is a box…
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What Jet provider is installed with MS Office 2003?

I am having problems with an app that uses the Access Database Engine 2010 on machines where Office 2003 is installed. I am getting a "not a valid password" when trying to programmatically access an ACCDB file. What could be the problem? I am…
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