How? “ How to fix Microsoft Project error: “This operation requires that you have Excel 2003 or later installed on your computer” Step 1: Locate the Microsoft Excel executable EXCEL.EXE The solution? Copy EXCEL.EXE into the same folder as WINPROJ.EXE. What’s happening? It’s as if Microsoft Project can’t see Microsoft Excel. You could either use a Visio report but then only if you have Visio installed, of course. In disbelief, you check that you have Excel, which you do, but still the error won’t go away and now you have a Project schedule but no way to generate good Microsoft Project reports.
“This operation requires that you have Excel 2003 or later installed on your computer.” If you try to create an Excel report in Microsoft Project but have a different version of Excel, then you will have come across this error:
