I have a new laptop (since Feb) with the Windows 7 operating system. I have Office Professional 2007, which is supposed to include the Business Contact Manager. I have not attempted to install it until today (didn't realize it wasn't installed; it's on the 2nd setup disk) - but it won't install. Has anyone any experience in this? Does it have something to do with Windows 7? Is the Business Contact Manager worth the trouble of trying to fix this issue?

I'm usually pretty good with software installation, but this one has me stumped

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Sharon Foster
"Giving You the Executive Edge"

What the problem that its giving you, any type of error message?

It says cannot install SQL 2005. I only saw that error message once. When I tried again, it says "failed to install the required component Microsoft Office 2007 primary interop assemblies... installation cannot continue"

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Sharon Foster
"Giving You the Executive Edge"

I'm going to assume that sql 2005 installed correctly since you are no longer getting that error and tackle the other one to see if that fixes your issue.

Microsoft Office Primary Interop Assemblies program is a component needed to make this work obviously and sometimes it is already installed (causing this error). In this case, remove the Primary Interop Assemblies program, and then try installing Business Contact Manager for Outlook again.

Try the following:

1. On the Start menu, click Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel, under Programs, click Uninstall a program.
3. Click Microsoft Primary Interop Assemblies, and then click Uninstall.
4. Follow the instructions on your screen.

After it has been uninstalled fully try the instillation again and then let me know if you have any other errors.

It worked!! Thank you so much. Now I just have to figure out how to use it.

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Sharon Foster
"Giving You the Executive Edge"

No problem! Just for future reference I found all the information on Microsofts help and support section of thier web site . You can also find tutorials on how to use the program there as well.

Thanks so much for this thread - I was having the same issue and put it on my "to do" pile. You all saved me a bunch of time and frustration!

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Crystal Coleman, The Northern Edge

Hi,

I also have Windows 7, and the whole Office 2007 Suite. I have one frustrating problem I don't seem to be able to figure out. At my still full time 9 - 5 job I have Outlook 2003 and I can create different contact lists, where only a particular kind of contact is, i.e clients, without being in my "overall" contact list. So if for example I want to do a mail merge to only my clients, I just pick that list. But in the 2007 version it won't let me create a separate list but each time I try, it tells me I don't have authorization to create that list and to contact my administrator. I AM THE ADMINISTRATOR !!! I'm I missing something? Thanks

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Tanja
http://www.englishgermanvs.com

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/284292

Thanks so much Amanda. I'd been reading about that in the Help menu and online but I wasn't sure if it will do the same thing then what I was used to from 2003. So hopefully it will give me a choice of that distribution list and not just the whole contact list when I try to do a mail merge. I'll check on that ASAP.

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Tanja
http://www.englishgermanvs.com