How do I upgrade my Office 2003 Basic Edition into Professional?

[Microsoft Transplant]

Hi guys, I know my question is pretty much lame but, is there a way to
upgrade my existing Office 2003 Basic Edition installation into the
Professional Version 2003? (with PowerPoint and etc)

Here's what I want to do, I have a PC with Basic Edition 2003 installed just
last week, but then my Professional Version 2003 just arrived and I want to
use it instead on the same PC. Can I still use the Basic Edition for another
PC eventhough it is already registered? Can I just uninstall the Basic
Edition, install the Pro Version, then register it?

Thank you very much for reading guys.

 

[Echo S]

Hi guys, I know my question is pretty much lame but, is there a way to
upgrade my existing Office 2003 Basic Edition installation into the
Professional Version 2003? (with PowerPoint and etc)

Here's what I want to do, I have a PC with Basic Edition 2003
installed just last week, but then my Professional Version 2003 just
arrived and I want to use it instead on the same PC. Can I still use
the Basic Edition for another PC eventhough it is already registered?
Can I just uninstall the Basic Edition, install the Pro Version,
then register it?

Click "upgrade eligibility" here:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/professional.mspx

You'll see a list of products that qualify you to use the Office 2003 Pro
upgrade. Office 2003 Basic is *not* a qualifying product, so you need to
purchase the full version of Office 2003 Pro, not the upgrade version.

If you purchased the full version of Office 2003 Pro and purchased it retail
(that is, it's not an OEM copy that you purchased from your computer mfg
when you ordered the computer), then you can install that on any computer
you want.

The Office 2003 Basic edition is a pre-installed version, which means
legally it's tied to the computer it came on. But read the EULA to be sure.
http://www.microsoft.com/office/eula/en.mspx You may have to contact the
computer mfg to find out where the EULA for Office 2003 Basic is if you
can't find it on your system.

And, to address your general question, if you're using an upgrade version of
a product, you generally can't use the qualifying product on a different
machine while it's being used as the qualifier for the upgrade on the
original system. But again, check the EULAs, as there are, I'm sure,
exceptions to this rule.

 

[Paul Ballou]

You can uninstall the Office Standard then install Office Professional. If
you want to use the Standard version on another PC just install then use the
telephone option to activate if you are unable to activate over the
internet.

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MVP Office
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Life would be easier if we could view the source code

 

[Bob I]

http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/prodinfo/faq.mspx

In a nutshell the "Basic Edition 2003" is OEM and can't be transfered to
another PC(lives on and dies with the PC it came installed on) Also it
cannot be used as the qualifing software for another version 2003
Office. So in summary the Basic is what you have on that PC, and if you
want something else you will need to buy it as a Retail not Upgrade
version. The Basic can't be used elsewhere.

 

[Bob I]

Unfortunately the OP has Basic(OEM) not Standard, and so they can't do that.

 

[Paul Ballou]

Bob at no point does the OP refer to having OEM software.

--
Paul Ballou
MVP Office
http://office.microsoft.com/home
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
http://www.ballousgiftshop.com/p1152b/

Life would be easier if we could view the source code

 

[Bob I]

Have you read the subject line?
http://www.microsoft.com/office/editions/howtobuy/basic.mspx

 

[Echo S]

Bob at no point does the OP refer to having OEM software.

The Basic edition of Office 2003 is OEM, Paul.

 

[Microsoft Transplant]

So, it means I cannot use and re-install the already registered Basic Edition
to my other machine right?

Or can I still use it using activation through the telephone?

 

[Paul Ballou]

Did you read my post? Yeah I did read it so what is your point as I said the
OP made no reference to OEM and in my post I reference standard not basic. I
interpreted the post by the OP that they had a non OEM version of therefore
are refer to standard.
--
Paul Ballou
MVP Office
http://office.microsoft.com/home
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
http://www.ballousgiftshop.com/p1152b/

Life would be easier if we could view the source code

 

[Paul Ballou]

Echo I am aware of that and it would not be the first time someone has made
a reference to one version when they meant another that is why I referred to
standard because no mention of OEM was in the original post. Basic and
Standard have similar meanings therefore can be interpreted to mean same
thing.

--
Paul Ballou
MVP Office
http://office.microsoft.com/home
http://www.freeserifsoftware.com/
http://www.ballousgiftshop.com/p1152b/

Life would be easier if we could view the source code

 

[Echo S]

Okay. Didn't mean to upset you. It just sounded as if you didn't realize
that Basic is OEMware and isn't available retail is all.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

MS Office Basic Edition (OEM only) is licensed to the original
machine and is generally not transferable.

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So, it means I cannot use and re-install the already registered Basic Edition
to my other machine right?

Or can I still use it using activation through the telephone? >>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx

 

[Bob I]

Yes I read your post. Since the OP carefully capitalized Office 2003
Basic and Edition, I took that to mean that the OP had in fact
determined that they had "Office 2003 Basic Edition" and not "Office
2003 Standard Edition". On the other hand if they had said basic 2003
Office, your interpretation could reasonably apply.