Why not download a copy of it. I am sure that there is a version on piratebay.org. Its not illegal if you own the software you are downloading :)
--mat On 6/19/07, Edmund Cramp <eac at motion-labs.com> wrote: > > I realize that this is really not the place to post this - and I'll > readily admit that it's my fault for running a MS product in the first place > but I've been drawing a blank on this for several days now. Does anyone > have any useful comments on this problem? > > I have a copy of Office Small Business Edition 2003 installed on my PC and > Excel doesn't work - it tells me that it needs SKU1CA.CAB to install ... > and it used to work - I'm guessing that some recent "security update" has > screwed it. This would be a simple fix IF I still had the original > installation CD ... but I don't. > > I've been calling IBM (it's a ThinkPad) who tell me that Lenovo handle > this, and Lenovo tell me that they don't issue replacement CDs - I have to > talk to Microsoft - and Microsoft say that since it's an OEM CD it's not > their responsibility and that I should call the computer manufacturer who > say ... well, you get the picture. > > Is anyone out there unfortunate enough to own a copy of Office SBE 2003 > that I can borrow to get Excel running again? Yes, I know the Office SBE is > an even bigger heap of crappola than Office 2003 but it looked like a good > idea at the time (it's never even heard of IMAP) ... I'm damned if I'm going > to buy another copy of Orifice 2003 just to get this going. > > And before anyone double dunks me for running Orifice in the first place - > we need Word for one damn help documentation option and we use Outlook > throughout the company ... and Outlook is (in my experience) most horribly > unstable if the rest of Orifice is not installed - bits of it gets lonely or > something. > > I suppose I could always uninstall Excel and run the Open Office > spreadsheet... it's looking like a better option all the time ... now if > only there was an Open Office equivalent of Outlook. > > OK, fire at will... > > Edmund Cramp > -- > Fairy Tales start "Once upon a time." Army/Sea stories start "This is no > shit." Software proposals start "1.0." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070621/4350dbc8/attachment.html
