I am using Windows XP Pro SP/2 and am unable to open Excel. I have MS Office 2003 installed and do not have the installation CD.

I am able to open the other applications such as Word Doc. but with Excel the file SKU011.CAB is missing. I have Googled this and it seems quite a common occurrence, though I cannot see any link to download the file from the web. Any help would be welcome.

I am using Windows XP Pro SP/2 and am unable to open Excel. I have MS Office 2003 installed and do not have the installation CD.

I am able to open the other applications such as Word Doc. but with Excel the file SKU011.CAB is missing. I have Googled this and it seems quite a common occurrence, though I cannot see any link to download the file from the web. Any help would be welcome.

I'd suggest a re-install (not sure if there comes the repair option as well ) , but you should get the CD first, did you try a system restore? Maybe that gets it back to work?...or uninstall and get Openoffice it's free and does the Job too.

hope that helps,

rcm

There is a lot of information at this site with users having the same problem. :

http://www.dylangreene.com/blog.asp?blogID=371

Seems this was the most common solution:

"I went to registry at regedit --> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Delivery\

I found two directories for downloadcode and changed the values of CDCache for all of them to 0. I changed the value of CDCache in setup.ini to 0 (it was 2). Immediately I tried to open Excel and it worked fine."

Of course this is only if you are comfortable with working with the registry.

Edited June 11, 200620 yr by tywais

Thanks rcm, I just got a CD and reinstalled it. It all seems fine at the moment.

Tywais, thanks also but I best not venture near the registry, especially after a beer.