Uninstall the trial version and install your STE version. The key for the
retail package will not work on the Trial version.
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reading.
After furious head scratching, shlace asked:
| I didn't get anything illegally. I downloaded Office from the
| microsoft site as a trial. Then found out I qualified for the
| student edition, so purchased it at best buy. Without reinstalling,
| when I brought outlook up, it told me to activate (just like it has
| many times) and this time I clicked to activate via internet.
| Thought it would give me the opportunity to put in the key from the
| software I bought at best buy, but it didn't. I assume it's
| activated under the key that I used with the download from microsoft?
| So, now I'm doubly legal and doubly as broke as I'm sure microsoft
| won't let me activate without charging my credit card...and I've
| opened the software from best buy. All is legit here, I just want to
| be charged for ONE license since that's all I'm using.
|
| "ANONYMOUS" wrote:
|
||
|| The key enables you to change the key. It has nothing to do with
|| Microsoft!! The tool is legal and Michael Stevens, MVP is the sole
|| distributor of this product. MVP stands for Most Valuable
|| Professional awarded by Microsoft for service(s) to Microsoft
|| product users.
||
|| A trial version becomes a retail version when the proper key is
|| entered.
||
|| What downloaded software? Are you talking about trial version? If
|| so then there is no charge. However, where would you get the
|| proper/retail key to use? You must buy the product to get the key
|| unless you have managed to get one through illegal means - in which
|| case I don't want to know anything about it and so this is my last
|| post on this topic.
||
|| Thank you and good bye.
||
||
|| shlace wrote:
|||
||| will that prevent microsoft from charging me for the downloaded
||| software? that's the whole point really.
|||
||| "ANONYMOUS" wrote:
|||
||||
|||| Well in that case use this tool:
||||
||||
http://www.magicaljellybean.com/beta/kf15b3.zip
||||
|||| This tools enables you to decode PIDs and also to change them.
|||| Very handy indeed!!
||||
|||| Hope this proves useful.
||||
||||
||||
|||| shlace wrote:
|||||
||||| These instructions would work if I hadn't already activated the
||||| trial version. It has been activiated...I need to deactivate and
||||| activate with a different key.
|||||
||||| "Timothy L" wrote:
|||||
|||||| Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2003 Trial information
||||||
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/standardtrial.mspx
||||||
|||||| Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 Trial information
||||||
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/trial.mspx
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| How to convert to the full version:
||||||
|||||| How to convert an Office 2003 Trial edition to a full retail
|||||| edition
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/831023/
||||||
|||||| How to Convert Microsoft Office System Trial Product to a Full
|||||| Version
http://www.microsoft.com/office/trial/convert.mspx
||||||
|||||| NOTE: If you received your trial as part of a purchase of a new
|||||| computer, follow this conversion process:
||||||
http://www.microsoft.com/office/pctrial/convert.mspx
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| As a last resort:
||||||
|||||| Office 2003 Trial setup and uninstall information
||||||
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010984891033.aspx
||||||
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|||||| others.
|||||| Requests for assistance by email will NOT be acknowledged!
||||||
||||||
||||||
|||||| ||||||| I inadvertently activated a trial of Office 2003 when what I
||||||| had intented to do was activate (without reinstall) using the
||||||| product key from the cd that I bought at a retail store. Is
||||||| there a way to convert after the license is already activated?
||||||| I don't want to have to take the software I purchased at the
||||||| retail store back as it was quite a bit cheaper than what's
||||||| offered on microsoft's site.
