Dialogue Box Message 'cannot find office.en-us\officeLR.cab

[CliveP]

We have Windows XP and MS Office 2000. My wife purchased a volume edition
Office 2007 Pro Plus from work. The installation stalls at the installation
progress screen then a dialogue opens with the message:
'Setup cannot find cannot find office.en-us\officeLR.cab. Browse to a valid
installation source then click OK'

 

[LloydG]

I use Vista 32 bit Ultimate edition.

I was installing Office Professional Plus 2007 from new original disk
onto a new clean install of Vista Ultimate 32 bit edition.

Note that I purchased the full version of office *not an upgrad
version*.

However, I kept receiving the error you've described.

I fixed the problem by installing Offce XP onto my system (from a
original CD) and then afterwards installed Office 2007 onto the syste
as an upgrade and it worked fine.

Frustrating but fixable if you own a previous version of offic

 

[NiallP]

Clive,

I am having the same error on a Vista machine. Have you found a solution?
Niall

 

[Brent]

I have tried renaming this folder but it makes no difference. I am reluctant
to try the uninstall / install route I've seen suggested elsewhere in case
the same problem occurs when I try the install and I'm then left with nothing
installed at all.

Brent