Upgrade makes Office not start

[Marc]

I've just had a copy of Office installed by my school on my school computer
(I am a teacher). I went and installed the updates today and now Office will
not start. When I try to run Word or Excel, I get the Microsoft Office Setup
Assistant. I think that it wants me to register the program but when I
follow through with that option, I get to the Mactopia page and site gets
stuck on login. What am I to do?

 

[Diane Ross]

I've just had a copy of Office installed by my school on my school computer
(I am a teacher). I went and installed the updates today and now Office will
not start. When I try to run Word or Excel, I get the Microsoft Office Setup
Assistant. I think that it wants me to register the program but when I
follow through with that option, I get to the Mactopia page and site gets
stuck on login. What am I to do?

In the Office folder in applications, what version is the Microsoft
Component Plugin? If it's 12.1.4 it's the latest. If you are at 12.0.0 this
is the DVD version.

/Applications/Microsoft Office
2008/Office/MicrosoftComponentPlugin.framework

There is a problem with the Setup Assistant looping. See this page for
options to fix.

Setup Assistant Errors Office 2008
<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/error/setup_assistant.html>

BTW, you do not have to register Office. It is not activated. Registration
just puts you on an email list.