A few years ago I had only Word 2003 installed on my machine (from an Office 2003 disk) and needed to install Excel. So I put in the Office CD and checked Excel only, because that was what I was installing. It installed Excel all right, but removed Word, apparently because I hadn’t checked it. So then I had to reinstall Word and all my add-ins and customizations (mumble, bitch, gripe).
Now I need to install Publisher. So I need to check Word and Excel (to keep them as is, not do a fresh installation) as well as Publisher, right?
Ugh. I try not to mess with my installations, so I don’t have much experience here. Googling and checking Microsoft “help,” uh, hasn’t. I’m loath to experiment without some sort of confirmation, because I don’t really have time to futz with Word right now; I need it up and running!
Your memory sounds right to me. Office is set up as one installer package - when you run it and it detects that it (or any part of itself) is already installed on your machine, it will probably start by giving you some variant of a ‘modify, repair, or remove entirely’ choice.
When you go into modify, it then asks you “Okay, what parts of the office package do you want to have installed when I’m done?” essentially. If you only check the new thing you want, then the installer assumes that you’re finished with the components that you already have installed and want to remove them. If you check them again, (or leave them checked if it happens to be smart enough to detect what you already have installed and checkmark them automatically) then it shouldn’t reinstall those components, just leave them alone.
If you start from the control panel add/remove programs item you should not have this issue. Click the “change” option under the Microsoft Office entry. It will take it from there. By starting from the CD you told it you wanted a fresh install of Excel only. Which is what you got.
Now just to rebuild the newsletter from scratch in a program I’ve never used before. :dubious: (I understand the basics, having worked in Quark occasionally many moons ago, but I’m sure there’ll be some sort of learning curve. Fortunately the design is pretty simple.)
