Excel 2007 stdole2.tlb error

Today I answered a call from a customer about this error that was coming up on their Windows Vista machine.  Everytime I open  Word, it wants to reconfigure it self.  Every time I  open Excel, it gives a “stdole2.tlb error” then it wants to reconfigure and it asks for the Install CD.

After some research, I found several options. This is what I did to fix it.

1. I went and removed Microsoft Office 2007 from the Programs list.
2. Then I went and did this:
   Delete “Excel” key from the following location in registry:
   (If some keys can’t be deleted or found, please skip them, this will not influence the result of the troubleshooting)
   Click on the + sign to expand the registry keys, the keys following the backslash (\) are sub keys, right click on the last sub key and click Delete.
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Excel
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Excel
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Excel
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\Excel
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\8.0\Excel
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Excel
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\10.0\Excel
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Excel
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Excel
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\Excel
   Close the Registry Editor
   
3. After that I went and restarted the computer.
4. I then went and Re-installed Office 2007

I got the information from here:

http://windowsproblemsandsolutions.blogspot.com/2012/12/stdole2tlb-excel-2007-error.html

it is easier to do it like the linked tutorial, but since I had already uninstalled office, i just went and did it like that.

good luck 🙂