The same thing just happened to me. I started my update and had to cancel
because it asked me for the disk which I don't have. Now when I go to go into
excel I get the same error. I will let you know if I figure this out.

"lemon8" wrote:

When I try to open excel from the start dialogue, it says "Please wait while
Windows configures Microsoft office 2003. Then appears "Fatal error during
installation.

This happens after I have downloaded new updates.

When I click on the HELP menu "Detect and Repair" on Microsoft Word, it
appears the same error as above"