I had this problem doing an update of Office 2003. After some flailing, I
learned that, unlike previous versions of Office, which kept all the .CAB
files on the installation CD's, Office 2003 copies them all to your HD.
Thus, to do an update with O2003, you must have the .CAB files on the HD.
Office 2003 won't look to the Installation CD's.
The problem is that it's really easy to delete the Office .CAB files if you
use the Disk Cleanup routine in My Computer. If you do so, Office can no
longer be updated, unless you first haul out the O2003 installation CD's,
and do a reinstall.
It seems to me that this newer setup is really poor. First, it clogs your
HD with 250+ MB of files, and second, because they get included
automatically in the Disk Cleanup checklist, it's really an accident waiting
to happen.
To prevent this accident, you should, after reinstalling, load the Disk
Cleanup routine in My Computer, and then uncheck the box "Office Setup
Files".
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Whenever I try to install OneNote 2003 SP1 or Office 2003 SP1 full-file
service packs, I get "missing CAB file" errors.
Does anyone know why this is happening? I have a Toshiba M205 PC, and as
such don't have access to the CABs for OneNote, so I can't install the
missing files from the install media as I don't have any. Needless to say,
I really need the full file version to work.
I get similar errors on the Office 2003 SP1 with missing CABs from
FrontPage 2003.