<wilsonj8234@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I am developing an Excel automation app. where I have only Office 2000
> installed on my machine. Unfortunately I installed the Office XP PIAs.
> This caused my app. to no longer interface with Excel. It appears
> that even though I was using Excel 9.0 as my COM reference, the system
> wanted to point to the Excel 10.0 reference from the PIAs that I
> installed. We are not warned by Microsoft that the XP PIAs will cause
> Office 2000 and earlier versions to no longer work. I followed the
> directions from MS on how to uninstall the PIAs complete with tedious
> registry edits but could not seem to get them out of the system.
>
> The only was I was able to get things back to normal was to do a system
> restore to a point prior to the installation of the PIAs.
>

> I am developing an Excel automation app. where I have only Office 2000
> installed on my machine. Unfortunately I installed the Office XP PIAs.
> This caused my app. to no longer interface with Excel. It appears
> that even though I was using Excel 9.0 as my COM reference, the system
> wanted to point to the Excel 10.0 reference from the PIAs that I
> installed. We are not warned by Microsoft that the XP PIAs will cause
> Office 2000 and earlier versions to no longer work.
>