Uninstalling Office 2000

I have been trying to uninstall my existing Microsoft Office 2000 using the Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs function but have been unsuccessful. I get the following error: "The patch package could not be opened. Verify that the patch package exists and that you can access it, or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid Windows Installer patch package."

Prior to this, I was able to download updates from Microsoft site for Office 2000 but now I can not because of an update error due to possible missing Windows Installer patch files (.MSP files).

Please advise how can I fix this problem.

Thank you.

Harvey Yap

This question was answered on March 2, 2004. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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You may want to try and uninstall using the Office CD, it should be able to uninstall the application for you.

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Posted by Student of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on March 2, 2004

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