Microsoft Office 2010 on an XP OS

Anonymous
2018-11-15T17:57:40+00:00

I've been using  Office 2010 on an XP platform for several years and suddenly receive the following:

"The procedure entry point GetDateFormatEx could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll"

Office was loaded on my machine when I received it so I do not have the registration key.

My XP machine is too old to upgrade to a newer OS.

Can anyone give some insight?

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Anonymous
2018-11-19T03:12:35+00:00

How and where do you find the update. I can no longer open any Office programs. I just keep getting the above message(The procedure entry point.......). I put in the original Office CD and selected repair (not install) but it did not correct the problem.

Thanks, Jay

-Open 'Add or Remove programs' from Control Panel

-Check the show updates on the top of window

-Find Office 2010 in the list and find the KB4461522 and KB4462157 updates from its update and remove them.

-Restart the windows.

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-01-31T08:21:22+00:00

    Here is  one that kills XP for me recently

    KB4461614 ( I note down in the replies that  others have noticed that one as well )

    ( I have a few XP machines and have had to de install all these a few times now.. KB4461614 , KB4461522 , KB4462157 )

    Reluctantly I have disabled updates now.

     I did have some success at automating  keeping a track of the “Bad” and “good” updates,  but a couple of things hampered me , …_

    _The “wmic” way most people think of using for getting automatically a list of updates…. That  actually ( at least as far as I can tell in XP Vista and Win7 ) mostly only list updates specific to the operating system. So it misses all the updates that usually give problems

    _  I did find a useful free software from Nir Sofer that does list all updates. But strangely it misses all Office updates in XP

    _... those problems meant that I had to make a list manually of all my Office updates  after every bundle of updaters came in ,  which I  then feed in my routines which sorted the “good” from the “bad”

    Here are some recent Posts where I recently was looking at some update problems in XP ( and also ActiveX controls embedded in a worksheet in all Operating systems )

    http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=31405

    http://www.eileenslounge.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31600&p=245201#p245201

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29108355/excel-2003-active-x-bug-from-dec-2014-update-still-broke-what-else-to-try/54350074#54350074

    http://www.excelfox.com/forum/showthread.php/2242-Excel-2003-ActiveX-controls-embedded-in-worksheet-not-working-then-can%E2%80%99t-even-insert-them-\*SOLVED\*?p=10923#post10923

    So if anyone passing knows how to get a full  list programmatically of Updates in XP I would be very grateful of a Heads up

    Alternatively if there is any other way to block specific updates , that could be explained to a Layman like me,  I would be very interested. ( I have not been able to understand any way I have seen suggested yet - I am a computer novice - that's puting it politely :-) )

    Thanks

    Alan

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-12-02T14:47:14+00:00
    As a conclusion to this matter, and to assist others who have been damaged by this problem, here is the remedial process as provided by Hojjat Bohlooli:  <br><br><br><br><br>Uninstall recently installed update of office 2010 named KB4461522.  This update breaks compatibility of office 2010 on windows XP.<br><br><br>·        Open 'Add or Remove programs' from Control Panel<br><br><br>·        Select the “show updates” on the top of window<br><br><br>·        Find Update, KB4461522 dated 14 Nov 18 for Office 2010 in the list and remove it.<br><br><br>Reboot computer<br><br><br><br><br><br>This is the procedure to use even if you reinstall Office 2010 from the original discs.<br><br><br>Hope this helps.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-10T09:09:31+00:00

    Yes. I updated Office, Outlook and Word yesterday. KB4461614 was one of the four updates. I uninstalled all four of them and no longer get the errors.  

    I will now try and install the three updates, other than this bogus KB4461614.  

    It is sad I now have to write down each and every MS Update KB number when installing, so if problems result from the update (and they do) I can identify the culprits and uninstall them using Add/Remove Programs.

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-11-19T14:32:51+00:00

    Thank you Hojjat Bohlooli, That got me back in business. I had tried "restore" to an earlier date and that did not work, but removing KB4461522 did the trick. I'm thinking about removing the Automatic Updates on this computer so this does not happen again. I don't use it much on the internet and if I had selected "show me before install  update" I would not know that a particular update would cause me trouble.

    Thanks again. Jay

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