Office 2007 Refuses to Open Files

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Office 2007 Refuses to Open Files

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That's right, I get this "System cannot find the file specified" (email attachments) or "[Program] cannot find [Path to File]" (opening files off the hard drive or anything else). What the heck is with this? It just started happening randomly last week, of course as I needed to print something for class this morning I'm frantically running a "Repair" install... I have run CHKDSK and found no errors.

And no, this isn't an opportunity to say "Switch to OpenOffice!" as I have my computing preferences just as everyone else has theirs.
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outside of completely reinstalling it??

Did anything change recently on the machine? That is weird that the File->Open and it still give you errors..
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Checked out that the rest of your components are behaving?

The ultimate boot CD has hard drive diagnostics programs on there, maybe give them a check out.

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About two years ago I had this happen to our eMachines W2247 that had XP and Office. None of the Office programs could open anything. After a few weeks without notice the hard drive froze up and died. :cry:
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hmmm, wasnt last week patch Tuesday??? :)


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Apparently this is not just me but a small group of people who were fine with Office one day, and the next it went and stopped opening any sort of file...
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So you are using Vista with Office 2007? Did you try re registering word as suggested in the blog?
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Yes, that does nothing...
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