Re: Why can't I uninstall Office 2007 and how can I?

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Did you leave any Office XP or remnants on the computer when you installed Office 2007

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"Uninstall Office 2007" <UninstallOffice2007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:AA2457BF-9F3B-4D39-A654-38AA8A1BC020@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you Peter but unfortunately when I try to uninstall the office files I
get a "The patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch package
exists and that you can access it or contact the application vendor to verify
that this is a valid Window Installer patch package."

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

See the link below
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218


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"Uninstall Office 2007" <Uninstall Office 2007@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> This is the second time I've had problems with Office for XP, we bought 2007
> when we could no longer view any documents on our 2003. Earlier this year the
> same thing happened with 2007. I called Microsoft and they fixed it for free
> saying that any problems up until September would be free to correct but
> after that would be a fee.
> Now that its past September we can no longer view anything on Office 2007
> and instead of paying a fee for what seems like it should be easy enough to
> fix on my own (earlier in the year it was a corrupt file). I figured if I
> uninstalled 2007 and reinstalled it would get rid of the corrupt file,
> instead I cannot view anything in my documents, I cannot open power points or
> word or anything, I cannot open my docuements with Notepad or Wordpad all I
> get is symbols and numbers. I cannot remove Office from the add/remove
> programs, all it does is blink when I press remove.
> I tried everything on the Microsoft site about deleting files and all sorts
> of Run commands, downloaded that installer cleaner, tried System Restore,
> tried the fix it for me, tried to remove Office 2007 manuelly. When I tried
> to remove it manually I was denied access to delete certain files even though
> I am the administrator. I am lost but want to keep trying to avoid any
> charges to fix this repeated problem I have had with Windows and Office.
> All I would like to do at this point is remove Office 2007 from my
> computer. If you have any suggestions I would greatly appreicate it.



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