given a copy of office 2003 found it was a pirate copy,

[Red6466]

So I restored the PC back a couple of days to my old office program so I
thought, then the fun began the Office refuses to recognise the old office
even though in add remove programs it says is there is office 2000 windows
won't access it. says i have to validate patch pack? how do i do that? huh.
but it's an instalation CD with all the MSI files in place it's got me
puzzled can anyone help?

Cheers John.

 

[Mary Sauer]

You receive the "This patch package could not be opened" error message in an
Office program
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295823/en-us

Before you use the Cleanup utility be very sure you have your product number.

 

[bxb7668]

So I restored the PC back a couple of days to my old office program
so I
thought, then the fun began the Office refuses to recognise the old
office
even though in add remove programs it says is there is office 2000
windows
won't access it. says i have to validate patch pack? how do i do
that? huh.
but it's an instalation CD with all the MSI files in place it's got
me
puzzled can anyone help?

Cheers John.

A common misunderstanding of going back to a previous restore point is
that it only restore the registry and a few other Windows control
files. It does not restore any application, such as Office, files that
were deleted or replaced. You'll need to run the Cleanup utility that
Mary mentions and then reinstall the legal copy of Office.

Brian