Hi, Les,

See if this helps:

You receive the "This patch package could not be opened" error message in
Office 2003, in Office XP, or in Office 2000:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;295823

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Susan Ramlet
MVP - Office

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"WLMPilot" wrote in message
...
I use MS Office 2000 Premium. I was deleting some files that I felt were
not
important to Windows in order to make room on HD. Things like cookies,
history, Temp files, etc. Apparently, I deleted something that I should
not
have deleted and had to reinstall WIN98-SE. Everything appeared to be ok
until I clicked on EXCEL icon on desktop. Window popped up telling me it
needed to be installed before it could run. I opened Windows Explorer and
looked to see if the office software was there and it is, as far as I can
tell. Anyway, I inserted the CD and clicked on START--RUN--BROWSE to
access the SETUP application on the CD. I then get an error that says
"Patch
Package could not be opened..."

Can anyone help with this?

Thanks,
Les