I have a version of Microsoft Office on my PC.

If I try to open any program in it, I get the message, "The patch package
could not be opened. Verifty that the pacakage exists and that you can
access it, or contact the application vendor..."


and

that MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or the wrong version.

Though, I can't open it to get the product id. ??

Help!?

Hi,

The problem you are reporting may occur if the registry contains Microsoft Windows Installer information from an earlier Office installation. Please refer to the following Knowledge Base
article for more information.

295823 You receive the "This patch package could not be opened" error message in an Office program
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;295823

Regards,

Scott Atkins MCSE, MCSA
Partner Technical Lead - Outlook
Microsoft Technical Support
for Platforms and Business Applications
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I have a version of Microsoft Office on my PC.

If I try to open any program in it, I get the message, "The patch package
could not be opened. Verifty that the pacakage exists and that you can
access it, or contact the application vendor..."


and

that MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or the wrong version.

Though, I can't open it to get the product id. ??

Help!?

Scott

Thank you, but this didn't help.

Any other ideas?!

"Scott Atkins[MSFT]" wrote:

Hi,

The problem you are reporting may occur if the registry contains Microsoft Windows Installer information from an earlier Office installation. Please refer to the following Knowledge Base
article for more information.

295823 You receive the "This patch package could not be opened" error message in an Office program
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;295823

Regards,

Scott Atkins MCSE, MCSA
Partner Technical Lead - Outlook
Microsoft Technical Support
for Platforms and Business Applications
--------------------
Thread-Topic: PATCH PACKAGE CANNOT BE OPENED
thread-index: AcZWgGGgTklr4+THSOaKKvhHkvn4yA==
X-WBNR-Posting-Host: 70.124.115.101
From: =?Utf-8?B?U2FyYQ==?=
Subject: PATCH PACKAGE CANNOT BE OPENED
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 11:08:02 -0700
Lines: 14
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="Utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Newsreader: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000
Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message
Importance: normal
Priority: normal
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.1830
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.outlook.installation
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NNTP-Posting-Host: TK2MSFTNGXA01.phx.gbl 10.40.2.250
X-Tomcat-NG: microsoft.public.outlook.installation

I have a version of Microsoft Office on my PC.

If I try to open any program in it, I get the message, "The patch package
could not be opened. Verifty that the pacakage exists and that you can
access it, or contact the application vendor..."


and

that MAPI32.DLL is corrupt or the wrong version.

Though, I can't open it to get the product id. ??

Help!?