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Excel works fine for me... Now.
Authored by: mangee on Jan 28, '04 06:43:07PM
I have 5 partitions on Panther - basically Apps, Users, System, Linux, and Space. MS Office v.x 2003 installed on Apps. Using the fstab mount hack to mount partitions in the right place:
guru@eMac 12:37: df -hnl
Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/disk0s10   4.9G   3.5G   1.3G    73%    /
/dev/disk0s12   7.9G    1.2G   5.7G     24%    /Volumes/Linux
/dev/disk0s14    15G   2.1G    13G    14%    /Users
/dev/disk0s16   4.9G  1016M   3.9G    20%    /Volumes/Space
/dev/disk0s18   5.0G   2.1G   2.9G    42%    /Applications
Had problems with Carbon Registration Database "Error Loading DLL" "Object Library not registered" etc..
I Found that by deleting CRDB or Office Registration Cache X, I could allow files to open ok - until I quit word or excel.. then I would have to delete them again etc.

All fixed now (it seems) thanks for the hint.

I created a new user - and then used

sudo ditto -rsrc /Users/nuser /nuser
to shift the user to system partition. Changed home dir for user to /nuser in in NetInfo manager... and deleted /Users/nuser - rebooted logged in.. Ran MS Office (Word Excel) and registered (again). Got Carbon Registration Database form /nuser/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/... and copied into other users ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/..

Works fine now. Also copied same CRDB to 2 other machines (eMac G4/700 and iMac G3/333) and that fixed them as well...

See also NZMac Forums --
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