They mean to upgrade your trial to the fully paid version, not purchase an
upgrade version. Re-read the instructions.
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After furious head scratching, satxagdude asked:
| That's incorrect. Office 2003 IS a qualifying product for upgrade in
| many cases because it the Trial key is listed on the back of the
| Microsoft Works CD case, which is a qualifying product. Read the
| fine print on the 2003 Free Trial Icon, and it will tell you by
| having this free trial preinstalled, you qualify for the upgraded
| version.
|
| "garfield-n-odie" wrote:
|
|| No, you do not have a prior version. Office 2003 Trial is not a
|| qualifying product for upgrade. See
||
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=832288 for a list of programs
|| that are qualifying products for upgrade. If you don't have one of
|| these, you will have to purchase a full version of Office 2003.
||
|| "chuck" wrote:
||
||| I just bout a new laptop. It came with Office 2003 trial version.
||| After a week of using the trial version I decided to go ahead and
||| purchase the upgrade. When I try to convert the trial version a
||| message comes up saying that I do not have a prior version. I
||| belive I do. I have been using the trial version and the documents
||| say to convert the trial I should buy the upgrade. Any
||| suggestions???