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Word got out yesterday that SP1 for Office 2007 was coming out next week, and not in early 2008. We're

Say, shall we now receive Proofing Tools 2007? It was due out last summer and it is aggravating that my customers are still waiting for it. Some of my customers will not upgrade to Office 2007 until Proofing Tools 2007 is available. This is a problem.

I hope the Outlook 2007 plain text message format spell check bug is corrected!

Wish you provide a service pack restoring the Graphical Goal Seek feature.

I Have a lot of animations to show next sales/cost/margins annual meeting. I made the mistake of (when in  the States, last month) Buy this new extra heavy unportable Fujitsu with Vista, and let the salesman convince me to buy the 2007 Office  version. I must say that the whole thing works exceedingly well, but the lack os some features/facilities/"logicities" 2003 had is utterly annoying.

Regards

Massimo Tagliavini

(65, customer since MSDOS/Windows 3.1)

What about 64-bit support for Groove!?!?

Office 2007 service pack and Visio 2007 service pack installs, respectively, failed miserably when I went to run them after downloading them to run locally.

I’m running Vista Business with IE7 and am fully patched according to Windows Update.

After each of these failed to install, I clicked on the report to microsoft button and have yet to receive any response.

Try as I might to support this new technology, it just isn’t working for me, yet again. This is just another PoS from MS, IMNSHO.

Office 2007 SP1 fails to install on all of our Vista Business machines.  Wonderful.  Guess we will wait for Sp1A

Downloaded office 2007 sp1 and ran on our XP sp2 system and looked like it installed but the final message just said install failed and press the OK button. Go figure

Just tried to install office 2007 sp1 on XP sp2. Had the same problem (intallation failed).

Any ideas?

I installed it last night. Everything went just fine. Took me under 10 minutes to conclude the whole process -- downloading and all. Tell you the truth, I still have not noticed anything different, so I wish MS would have a more explanatory page on the SP1...

I had the same installation failed message while trying to install the 0ffice 2007 SP1

SP1 Failed for me 4 times now. XP Media Centre SP2, fully patched. Office 2007 and Office 2003 both installed. Nice job! Can we have SP2.

Installed using Microsoft upodate and it seemed successfully but when I checked the files they were the old ones, SP1 had not installed in fact installed.

Then I tried installing from a standalone public download. At end of installation process I got installation failed message. From the installation log saw that it stopped because it could not write to Word.Document.8\Shell\Open\command- error 1406.

Suggested permissions be checked but they were all OK. So I have had to leave it uninstalled

I also get the installation failed messages on my XP Pro machine.  I have tried installing from Microsoft Update & also the public download.  I've tried doing the update with the Office DVD in the drive & still get the same results.

Does it make any difference that I did not do a complete Office install?  I left certain components out such as Access & Groove.

I also tried both Windows Update installation AND local installation, but got the installation failure message. I run Windows XP Home AND I did NOT install all of Office 2007 Enterprise; I wonder if either played a role in the failed installation.

One thing: Microsoft needs to provide thorough explanations of its error codes. This would make it so much easier to troubleshoot situations like this.

I installed on my Vista laptop with no worries but when I try and install on XP Pro SP-2 Desktop It just says installation failed have tried several times, even did a reinstall of Office 2007 Enterprise and still the same????? Help please :)

Just DL th Office 2007 SP1 on January 7, 2008 and installation failed.  Will there be a newer fix to DL again later?

see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946691/en-us for getting the service pack to work. Tried it and finally succeeded.

After a four hour session with a Microsoft Office techsupport person in which we removed all traces of office 2007 Pro from the system (including registry keys) we could not reinstall Office so the fault must lie in a sofware conflict of some kind on the user's system rather than in the Service pack 1 itself.

Does one really need the service pack?

John

I have Vista Business and Office 2007 Enterprise.  SP1 failed for me also.  Code 78F

-John

Had similar problem re numerous failed installations of Office 2007 SP1. Found the answer today -  KB 946691. Worked first time!

after installation sp1 for 2007 plus on our server each time we open access the installer start to reconfigure the programm and re install it

is it normale or there is somthing wrong?