Run-time Error '-2147467259 (80004005): The export failed because this feature is not installed.

Question

I have written an Excel macro that

• Opens a word document
• populates several bookmarked fields
• exports the word document to pdf file;

Problem is that when the command

Doc.ExportAsFixedFormat PDFFilePath & VBA.Replace(WordFileName, ".docx", ".pdf"), wdExportFormatPDF

executes, it results in an error:

Run-time Error '-2147467259 (80004005): The export failed because this feature is not installed.

The image shows all the References I've enabled in the Excel Tools\References.

Although according to several examples given, my macro code should be working, it does not.

What am I missing or not doing?

Any assistance with this will help tremendously.

Thank you,

Mario

Answer 1

Hello Viorel.

Thanks for your reply to my dilemma.

Spent last night with MS Support reinstalling my Microsoft 365.

After I restarted the computer the code worked as intended.

Now, here's where I figured out the problem to be.

I also have Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007 installed on my computer, which I used to do all my prior work with Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook etc.

When I install Microsoft 365, it works, but, my MS Office Ultimate 2007 doesn't. something goes awry and I cannot open my my Outlook to manage my emails. I love this version of Outlook btw, more so than the new Mail application. I'm organized in Outlook 2007 and have thousands of emails in my pst file, which I cannot afford to lose.

When I try to open Outlook 2007 it complains that it must be re-installed. I go through the motions and it sets up properly and I'm able to open it. Then I try to execute the Microsoft 365 excel macro and it fails.

So it appears that the two environments cannot coexist.

I paid considerable money to have all the MS tools that I needed to do my work, and cannot afford to rebuy it. MS SQL Server, MS Visual Studio 2008, MS Visio are now prohibitively expensive.

I could do without the older version of Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, but I am not willing to drop Outlook 2007, unless MS does extensive work on redesigning Mail to provide the functionality of Outlook. Which I doubt.

Should I be able to move all my emails from Outlook to Mail, I could possibly put up with Mail.

But until then, it's a no go. Similarly with the likes of Visio. All the code and systems I built using the Visual Studio however, is a hard stop when having to do without it.

So, a bit long winded, but there you have it.

Your thoughts are greatly appreciated on this.

Thanks again for your reply.