You receive a "Clip Organizer Cannot Complete the Operation" error message when you try to start Clip Organizer (302375)



The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Clip Organizer 2002
  • Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2003
  • Microsoft Office Visio Standard 2003
  • Microsoft Visio 2002 Professional
  • Microsoft Visio 2002 Standard
  • Microsoft Visio for Enterprise Architects (2002)
  • Microsoft Excel 2000
  • Microsoft Excel 2002
  • Microsoft Office Excel 2003
  • Microsoft FrontPage 2000
  • Microsoft FrontPage 2002
  • Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003
  • Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2000
  • Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
  • Microsoft Office Publisher 2003
  • Microsoft Publisher 2000
  • Microsoft Publisher 2002
  • Microsoft Office Word 2003
  • Microsoft Word 2000
  • Microsoft Word 2002

This article was previously published under Q302375
This article is a consolidation of the following previously available article: 827808

SYMPTOMS

When you start Microsoft Clip Organizer, you may receive one of the following error messages:
error in the .dll
error code 0x800401f9

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Clip Organizer cannot complete the operation. The RPC server is unavailable. Error code 0x800706BA.

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Clip art organizer cannot complete the requested task. Class not registered. Error code 0x80040154.
When you click OK, you receive the following error message:
Clip Organizer cannot complete the operation. Error Code 0x80040E21.

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Microsoft Clipart Organizer
Clip Organizer cannot complete the operation.
No such interface supported.
Error code 0x80004002

CAUSE

An older version of the Microsoft Data Access Components is installed your computer.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, install the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), version 2.5 or later. To do this, browse to the following Microsoft Web site:

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
For additional information about how to troubleshoot a similar issue, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

889885 You receive a "Clipart cannot complete the operation" error message when you try to insert clip art in an Office XP program or in an Office 2003 program

For additional information about how to check MDAC version, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
301202 How to check for MDAC version

Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:12/29/2005
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