[brlug-general] Getting blood from a stone (a sad tale)

[Andrew Baudouin]

It's a very sad day when a person has to phrase his emails in such a way 
because he operates a Microsoft product.


Edmund Cramp 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?
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> OK, fire at will...
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> Edmund Cramp
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