Re: Office 2003 Pro updates



<I attended IU for school and was able to download Office 2003 Pro through the
<school since they have a contract with MS.


I believe the above gives the answer to your issue. IU probably had a given download from MS where the files for further Upgrade would have had to be done through their IT department.

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"Toni" <Toni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:11B0DD9B-1CA5-4886-8E2D-F5E815CF02F4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I attended IU for school and was able to download Office 2003 Pro through the
> school since they have a contract with MS. However, I am unable to download
> automatically or manually the updates. I keep getting the following error
> message:
> The Office Update site is unable to check for updates on this computer. This
> may be happening because of one of the following reasons:
>
> You do not have administrative privileges for this computer.
> There is a network problem and the detection catalog used by the Office
> Update site failed to download. Go back to the Downloads home page and try
> running detection again.
> Windows Installer patch files (.MSP files) from previously applied Office
> updates are missing from the \Windows\Installer hidden directory on your
> computer. MSP files are stored on your computer after update installation
> completes because they need to be referenced for future update operations. If
> the files are missing you will not be able to apply Office updates. You may
> also be unable to uninstall Office products as a result of the same problem.
> Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services for assistance.
> You installed Office updates in the past and then upgraded from Windows
> Installer version 1.0 to Windows Installer version 1.1. For more information
> see the KB article Windows Installer May Prompt for Install Source if
> Unavailable.
>
> I have also tried to run "detect and repair" with the error message:
> This patch 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 Windows Installer patch package.
>
> IU will not give support and I can't afford to pay for support through MS.
> Please help!!
>
.



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