Re: windows update office 2007 sp1 error 78f

We're still investigating this error & from what we've gathered so far, the
temporary solution is to have the CD in the drive at the time of SP1
installation. Doing so should enable the installation of SP1. ANY CD in the
drive should work.

Please reply back & let everyone know whether this resolves it for you.

Debbie

"Steve@Aberdeen" <SteveAberdeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Since Office 2007 came pre-installed on my Vaio and, as I paid my full
registration fee online via the activation assistant, I have no CD. I ran
repair via "Programs and Features".

So I now seem to be stuck with a legitimate version that won't accept SP1.
I can't even uninstall it as, again, I've no means to reinstall it (other
than restarting my laptop from its recovery partition - which I don't plan
to
do). I'm not even sure borrowing a CD from somebody with multiple
licences
would work - for all I know the activation code I have is tied to my OEM
version.

Anyone any other ideas? What is error 78f, anyway? It doesn't come up on
any help files to say waht the cause is - if it did, we might have a clue
where to start a fix.

"Bob Cooley [MSFT]" wrote:

Are you guys running the repair from Add/Remove, or are you inserting the
Office CD and running the repair from there? The only repair scenario
that
works has been from running it from the CD... Let us know, thanks!

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Regards,

Bob Cooley, [MSFT]

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"Steve@Aberdeen" <SteveAberdeen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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Previously installing FrontPage 2003 had killed the Outlook 2007 search
function - which I fixed by repairing 2007; the 100MB+ 2003 update
seemed
excessive for just FP and I didn't want to do any more damage to 2007.
However, I thought I'd give it a try so:

1) Repaired 2007.
2) Rebooted.
3) Ran 2003 update.
4) Rebooted.
5) Repaired 2007 (the search wasn't broken but ran it "just in case").
6) Rebooted.
7) ran 2007 SP1.
8) Swore as it returned 78f again.

My update log now shows SP1 has failed installation 9 times...

"Nick M-S" wrote:

Just to add. I tried repairing Office 2007, as suggested by the
Microsoft
person on another thread. I have plenty of memory, 52GB available. I
looked
at Windows Installer 3.1, but it did not mention Vista as a base
system,
so I
assume that Vista has it built in? I have also tried the instal 5
times.

"Steve@Aberdeen" wrote:





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