“… is not installed. Do you want to install it now?”
No, for the 100th time no. I’ve answered this a gazillion times and the answer is still no.
So how do I get rid of it, i.e. that stupid dialogue box that keeps popping up?
And the answer is not “Install it”, because I’m at work and don’t have admin rights, so I can’t. No I can’t ask the network admin either. I wish I could.
Have you tried turning the feature off? On the Tools menu, click Auto-Correct Options. Clear every checkbox on the AutoCorrect tab, and then click OK.
Then maybe Word will stop trying to use the feature and therefore stop annoying the crap out of you by telling you it’s not installed.
I’ve done that.
It’s most frequent when I’m working in some kind of table.
OK, it’s a work-around, but to preserve your sanity, how about downloading something like this?
“Push the freakin’ button”
Have you actually tried installing it? When installing Office, it is possible to configure some features as “Don’t install it right now but fix it so I can install it the first time I try to use it.” It puts files on your computer so that you don’t have to go back and get the installation CD to install that feature. It is possible, but I don’t know for sure, that you would be able to add that feature without having admin rights.
I doubt that he’ll be able to install it as a regular user. Applications, especially Microsoft applications and especially Office, like to dump DLLs in the \System32 folder, as well as \Program Files, both of which are read-only to non-administrative users.
Yeah, what DarrenS said.
First time I use an Office software, (i.e. click the icon), there’s an automated minimal install being done. Word being what it is, it really has to be tweaked. Since I’m not a sysadmin, I have very limited options, and whenever the software feels it needs something, it wants me to install it. Problem is, the missing files aren’t on the server.
And the sysadmin has been wrestling with that server since August and I understand that my peeve is lower on the scale of priorities for him. Getting the server to run is more important (they think it has “spinning beachball
syndrome” whatever that is.)