You receive an error message when you click Detect and Repair on the Help menu in Excel 2000 (SP-3) or PowerPoint 2000 (SP-3)

When you click Detect and Repair on the Help menu in Microsoft Excel 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3) or Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3), you may receive the following error message:

This problem occurs after you install Microsoft Office 2000 Service Pack 3 (SP-3) and apply the Office 2000 Registration Wizard update. The Detect and Repair feature uses the Setup information that was stored after the installation of Office. However, when you start Excel or PowerPoint, this information is not correctly used or initialized. When you try to use the Detect and Repair feature on the Help menu in either program, the program does not provide its product code to the Microsoft Windows Installer, causing the error message.

For additional information about Office 2000 Service Pack 3 and the Registration Wizard update, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

To work around this problem, use one of the following methods.

Use the Office Setup Repair feature

To repair Excel or PowerPoint, use the Office Repair feature in Office 2000 Setup. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
2. Double-click Add/Remove Programs.
3. Click the program name on the list, and then click Add/Remove.
4. Click Repair Office.
5. Click Repair Errors in my Office Installation, and then click Finish.

Force Excel or PowerPoint to complete initialization

To initialize Excel or PowerPoint, on the Help menu, click About Microsoft Excel or click About Microsoft PowerPoint. This forces the programs to initialize themselves and to register themselves.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Any version of MSO9.DLL that is later than 9.0.0.7616 can potentially exhibit the problem.