Ready to put a gun to my head...Office updates

[JohnKGibson]

Installed Office 2008 from disk and did an update to the updater, and
updated to 12.1.0.

I need the recipe for the cocktail of updates so that I can update it
past 2.1.0. So far every update that I have downloaded has given me
the stopsign on the icon of the hard drive. And now I am at the point
of throwing this thing across the room.

Thanks for the suggestions guys... this is just damn frustrating at
this point.

 

[Michel Bintener]

Open one of the Office applications, then click on Help>Check for
Updates. This will launch Microsoft AutoUpdate, which will download all
the updates you need. Check for updates a number of times to make sure
you have all the latest updates. (The latest version is 12.2.4, by the way.)

 

[JohnKGibson]

Autoupdate downloads an update... However after it does so the update
won't install
Because the installer doesn't seem to find the right software.

I finally just reformatted the system and started from scratch, once I
did this
microsoft would update with the Autoupdate.

Crazy because I had just done this to this machine.

 

[Diane Ross]

I finally just reformatted the system and started from scratch, once I
did this
microsoft would update with the Autoupdate.

Crazy because I had just done this to this machine.

Did you run any applications like monolingual after you did the reformat?

Dos and Don'ts for a good install
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/install_08.html#basics>

In case the above link does not work:

<http://tinyurl.com/6cmyyc>

Check List to troubleshoot your install

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/troubleshoot/install_08.html#checklist>