- Xcelsius and office 2010
When trying to install Xcelsius 2008 while already having Office 2010 installed… you most likely will get this error:
“Microsoft Office XP and later applications: Excel, Word, Outlook or PowerPoint must be pre-installed.”
To solve this problem there are two workarounds!
workaround 1:
1. Make sure Office 2010 is already installed
2. install Excel 2007 or earlier and then install Xcelsius.
3. Once it’s installed, uninstall Excel 2007.
4. Xcelsius will revert to Excel 2010, Xcelsius works with Office 2010….. just the installer doesn’t reconize it.
Workaround 2:
Instead of reinstalling Excel 2007, you can modify the Xcelsius.msi file to prevent it from checking the version of Office. You can use the program InstEd to read the msi file which you can find at http://www.instedit.com
Be sure to create a backup of the msi file before you make any changes
In InstEd under Tables you can locate LanuchCondition. Once highlighted you will see a condition checking for office versions. Replace the text with one of the other conditions of “Privileged OR Installed” but the trick is that the length of the text must be exactly the same or the byte count of the msi will change and will not run. So Copy the original office check text into notepad and on the next line down copy the “Privileged OR Installed” text and then add spaces until the second line was exactly the same length as the one above it. Then copy that second line and replaced the office condition text in the InstEd tool and save it. Be sure to Close InstEd and the install will run fine and Xcelsius will work just fine as well.
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Excellent suggestion unfortunately I am unable to follow your steps. Perhaps you could give a little more detail for us slower folks. Thanks.
I have InstEd open with the Xcelsius.msi file – I see Launch condition but from there I am lost as to what you are suggesting are the next steps.
Good day i have a very curious issue, i have installed Xcelsius SP4 to work with Excel 2010, everything works perfectly except right click on the Excel area, does anyone have a suggestion to solve this??? Thank you in advance
Thank you so much, It works like charm with office 2010