Solutions built for Office programs may not work with Office 2003 Beta2

When you try to automatically activate a Microsoft Office 2003 beta program, the Office 2003 beta program that you try to activate is not activated as expected. Instead, you may receive a runtime error message.

This problem occurs when you are trying to automatically activate an Office 2003 program by one of the following solutions:

• A Visual Basic application.
• A macro from within an Office program.
• Another solution that involves Microsoft Office.

This issue occurs because the text in the title bar of Office 2003 Beta2 programs is different from the text in previous versions of Office. When a solution tries to activate an Office program, the argument it sends to the AppActivate method requires the name of the program as it appears in the title bar. Because the title bar is different in the Beta2 version of Office, the process does not complete successfully.

To resolve this issue, install one of the following updated versions of Office.

• Microsoft Office 2003 Beta2 TR
• Microsoft Office 2003 (RTM)

Important You must perform a full install from CD-ROM. If you only update or patch your existing installation of Office 2003 Beta, the problem is not resolved.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.