Re: Can't load updates after reinstall of Office 2004

"TheHerdsman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" wrote:

> I needed to remove and re-installed Office 2004 recently. Used the
"Remove
> Office" tool and then installed from the disc. It loaded ver 11.0 just
fine,
> and at the end of the installation process, I selected the download
updates
> option and that hangs up trying to install Autoupdater 1.1.2. The
package
> downloads but the installation goes into a loop with the "Searching
Macintosh
> HD" dialog box. After a long but unsuccessful trip to the Genius Bar, I
> removed everything and installed again using all the defaults ... same
> problem!

You could be trying to download the wrong updater from Mactopia.

Office 2004 uses a VISE installer so is an entirely different application
than the Office 2008 MAU. It uses a package installer. Both require
different updates.

The Office 2008 MAU should be version 2.1.1 (041011) and is found in the
root application folder.

Office 2008 should be version version 2.1.1.

The Office 2008 MAU is now hidden away.

/Library/Application Sup****t/Microsoft/MAU2.0

> I noticed that 1.1.2 is mostly a language sup****t upgrade, so downloaded
the
> oldest Office update I could find (11.3.5) and it had a similar error
"can't
> find the correct version to update" (or something to that effect). The
11.0
> software runs okay but I'd really like to get it up to date.

Try using "Remove Office" and install again, but run the Apple combo
updater
first.
> 
> Is there anywhere I can download older updates (like 11.1 or 11.2)?
Better
> yet, any way to download a "quantum leap" to upgrade all the way to 11.4
in
> one go??

Earlier updates were combined into the 11.3.5. Find links to all here:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/downloads/mactopia_dl.html>

-- 
Diane