Using Maximizer Enterprise 7.5 with MS Office 2003

We haven't had a single problem with our Office 2003 machines (most of the office now)

We can check what version of Office your operating system thinks it has to determine whether it is an OS problem or a Maximizer problem.

Try the attached file (it will probably error before revealing what version of Word there is, because it was put together quickly to test a similar problem with someone else)

It is very simple, once you hit test it just says what version the OS thinks it has (2003 is version 11)

If this comes up correct then further analysys will be needed, if this doesn't say version 11 then there is a problem with your 2003 install

Regards
Maxtalk Administrator

Thanks.

It reports "4 Word version 11.0"

Of the two machines that have Office 2003 (soon to be more), both were originally running the Beta release, which we then upgraded.

I believe that Maximizer was installed after the full version of 2003 was applied.

I have another user running Office 2003 and never had the Beta release. That machine does not currently have Maximizer, but I will do a trial install to see how it behaves.

I shall post the results shortly.

Regards,
Mark

No, I am still getting the error, even on a machine that has never seen the Office 2003 Beta. I have to lead the installer to show it where the Office exectuables are and then it simply reports that it has found Word version 1, but needs at least version 6.

Tell me, did you have an earlier version of Office when you first installed Maximizer, and then upgraded Office to 2003? If this is the case, then I suspect that Maximizer correctly installed the macros and templates, and the Office upgrade then brought them across to Office 2003.

I suspect that I may need to determine what files are required and 'manually' install them. However, it seems that some registry changes are required to let everyone know that Word integration is installed. It all sounds quite complicated!

Frustrated,
Mark

Most were probably Office XP, version 10 (and a couple might have been 2000, version 9)

I'm not personally aware of the 'Offical situation' with Max7.5 and Office 2003 (i.e. Max6 was never supported on Windows XP)

The Word Mail Integration (DDE links) is a single Document Template file called MaxWin97.dot

find a copy from a working machine and put it in C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\STARTUP

The rest, such as Calendar, email integration and Templates for word are a series of copy and pastes to the correct locations, Registering DLLs and registry tweaks.

Such as verifying the existance of 'MociExt7.dll' in the System32 folder

Creating or verifying the existance of the registry keys in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Maximizer Software\Maximizer\Modules\AMGR\CurrentVersion\Moci

Word Templates used to be in the Office Templates folder (if i recall) however i don't personally use them so they are not installed on my machine

Should be able to come up with a better list soon.

Regards
Maxtalk Administrator

I see that Maximizer posted a support bulletin (#040330-000000) on this topic in late March.

It basically suggests putting the MAXWIN97 macro file into the Startup directory, which will then enable Word to speak to Maximizer.

They do not comment on how to tell Maximizer that is has an instance of Word available as an editor.