Geoff the Duck - Open office is good, but does not have all of the capabilities available in Office. Some of the "missing ones" are things that are essential for our line of business.

Newport Boy - Same problem. When people are paying you to get something done, "screw you" is NOT a particularly wise thing to say.

Jim Lad -

If the message says Office 2003 wasn't installed correctly, it means Office 2003 wasn't installed correctly. Unless you have both Office 2003 and Office 2007 installed there's no "clash."

Failure to fix little problems as they arise is almost certain to result in VERY BIG PROBLEMS eventually, so a "repair installation" would probably be a very good idea when you can get to it.

If the message has started coming up recently, it's much more likely that an update has failed to install than that the original installation has suddenly developed a problem. There have been some reports of difficulties, with SP3 especially, but there are descriptions of fairly specific remedies at Microsoft.

John