Hi everybody
I have a problem with the compatibility with office. First I had Office 2010 x86 on my PC,then I uninstalled that and installed Office 2013 x64, when I try to installed SW electrical an error regarding to the previous office appear....I uninstalled it properly and deleted folders and files manually, but the error is still there....how can I solve this problem?? anyone??? I really apreciate your help .
The error says that it had detected office 2010 32 bits on folder C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14, but this folder does't even exist!!
The SW electrical I have is the x64 version
Office 2013 x 64
Windows 7 x64
I assume you are propably using the 2012 or 2013 release? Both depended somewhat on the Access Database Engine, which had to be at the same "bit level" as your Solidworks Install. Since Office also uses it, it cause quite a bit of havoc as Office 2007 was 32 bit only and 2010 typically defaulted to 32 bit.
You might be able to try downloading the Access Database Engine x64 from Microsoft and installing it via the command line with the /passive switch. We had to go through this process quite a bit, as our Enterprise license of Office was 2007, so everyone had 32 bit Office installed.
If that doesnt work, you may have to go registry diving to find out where it thinks Office 2010 is coming from. I recently had an issue where SWE 2013 started taking 20-30 minutes to generate a PDF, instead of 20-30 seconds. I had to uninstall SWE then hunt every registry entry related to it down to properly uninstall it. Reinstalling then fixed the issue.