Try "Windows Installer CleanUp Utility"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290301
Does it help?
By the way this is a Media Center news group so you will get better
assistance if you kindly post the same to the following news gr.:-
microsoft.public.excel or ,any office related news gr.
regards,
S.Sengupta[MS-MVP]
"Caterham842" <Caterham842@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:242FD7D7-BB53-448A-B10D-0EF7239CE926@microsoft.com...
> I'm running Windows XP and have installer 4.5. Running Office 2003 with
> Service Pack 3
>
> Windows Installer starts when excel is trying to open, the following
> error
> messagae is then displayed:
>
> Problem with Shortcut
> This package could not be opened. Verify that the package exists and that
> you cn access it, or contact the application vendor thta this is a valid
> Windows Installer patch package.
>
> To alleviate this issue I recently downloaded Installer 4.5 but it did not
> solve the above issue.
>
> Ideas / assistance is required?
>
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