I am using Office 2003 since a long time on my Windows XP system and was working fine without any problem. Two days ago I download windows update and since then my office started behaving weird. Note, I only downloaded updates but dint installed. Since them my office applications started crashing. So I tried to repair but there was an error message “installation ended prematurely because of an error”. It wont allowed me to repair. So I thought to re-install but it dint allowed me to uninstall as well. I tried to insert the CD and install over the existing one but yet the same problem.
I tried to get some help from web and in a Microsoft KB315995 they have mentioned to to run the Setup and in the User Information dialog box, type your product key in the Product Key boxes, and then click OK. But here too was a problem, Product Key boxes never appears.
Can anyone please help me out ? What should I do now ? For your instances, here are the updates I downloaded (but yet not installed):
KB943649
KB947355
KB945432
KB943985
Office 2003 SP3
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