Re: Word 2004 - "Can't load Visual Basic for Applications"

From: John McGhie (john_at_mcghie.name)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 18:25:37 +1000

Hi Mark:

Ummm... It *could* be that you are being punished because you declined to
INSTALL the VBA module. This decision would be seen as "alternatively
clever" by those who understand that many parts of Microsoft Office use VBA
to do things such as generate the user interface :-)

The first viruses for Mac OS X were written in around 1968, I believe. You
are running on BSD Unix, my friend: one of the oldest operating systems
there is, with one of the most technologically-capable hacker communities on
the Internet.

If you choose to match wits with them, you go right ahead. Me, I run an
antivirus and a firewall :-)

Cheers

On 27/5/04 5:25 AM, in article 2004052615254316807%markgreen0045@hotmailcom,
"mark green" <mark_green0045@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I doubt my mac has a virus. I just did a fresh install of Panther a
> week before this. And since I'm using OS X what virus could you be
> talking about, as far as I know there aren't any. Could part of this
> whole problem be because I did a custom install and only choose to
> install Word for now and none of the others? Am I being punished
> because I I'm happy with the OS X mail client and don't care to use
> Entourage and don't care for Power-point or excel either.
>
> On 2004-05-26 09:37:10 -0400, John McGhie <john@mcghie.name> said:
>
>> You MAY have a virus. Buy/Update your antivirus program and do a full scan
>> of your system. Make sure you get a modern version that can detect PC
>> viruses as well as Mac viruses.
>>
>> The reason Word can't load VBA is because it is being asked to load the PC
>> version of it.
>>
>> You could cure YOUR problem by simply closing Word and renaming your Normal
>> template. (Trashing won't work: either drag it to the desktop or rename
>> it). However, the virus will hang around in your system and may infect any
>> PC you send documents to.
>>
>> If no virus is found, then you should run the Office Uninstaller which you
>> will find in the Office Folder, then re-install. It could be that a file
>> got put in the wrong place when you installed, and now Word can't find VBA.
>> Note: Re-installing without uninstalling has no effect: it won't replace
>> files if they already exist.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> On 25/5/04 3:59 PM, in article 2004052501592479930%markgreen0045@hotmailcom,
>> "mark green" <mark_green0045@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Every time I launch Word 2004 I receive this error message. It has been
>>> happing since the very first launch but doesn't seem to cause any
>>> problems once I click "OK". However its very annoying and I can't seem
>>> to find any info on this issue. Here is the exact message I receive
>>> after Word 2004 launches.
>>>
>>> "Can't load Visual Basic for Applications
>>>
>>> Make sure Visual Basic for Applications is installed on
>>> your computer. If Visual Basic for Applications is
>>> installed, make sure the path to the installation folder
>>> does not contain any characters outside of the system
>>> code page (such as Cyrillic characters on an English
>>> system) and contains fewer than 255 characters."
>
> 

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