I can't activate my 60 day trail. It will not take product key.

[Martyd]

My trail version of Office is about to expire. I want to convert and pay for
the for my Office 2003. I could not find the original product key number so
they gave me one. It would not work to convert so I waited a while and got a
new one. It will not work either. How do I activate the product. Help

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

This is just my opinion. Order the software from Amazon.com. It's a bit less
expensive than most places PLUS you will have the CDs and not just an email
with a product key that you won't be able to find when you need it most.

 

[Martyd]

If I do that will I mess up all the work I have done to set up my Outlook
mail and the files I have in word. Will loading a CD start the Office with a
clean slate or will it let me keep what I have.

Thank you for the reply

This is just my opinion. Order the software from Amazon.com. It's a bit less
expensive than most places PLUS you will have the CDs and not just an email
with a product key that you won't be able to find when you need it most.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

My trail version of Office is about to expire. I want to convert and pay
for
the for my Office 2003. I could not find the original product key number
so
they gave me one. It would not work to convert so I waited a while and got
a
new one. It will not work either. How do I activate the product. Help

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I'm not the best person to ask that question. If I had to do that, I would
search the Outlook newsgroup archives to see how it could be done. And I'm
sure it ca be.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

If I do that will I mess up all the work I have done to set up my Outlook
mail and the files I have in word. Will loading a CD start the Office with
a
clean slate or will it let me keep what I have.

Thank you for the reply

This is just my opinion. Order the software from Amazon.com. It's a bit
less
expensive than most places PLUS you will have the CDs and not just an
email
with a product key that you won't be able to find when you need it most.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

My trail version of Office is about to expire. I want to convert and
pay
for
the for my Office 2003. I could not find the original product key
number
so
they gave me one. It would not work to convert so I waited a while and
got
a
new one. It will not work either. How do I activate the product. Help

 

[Barry Watzman]

It will reinstall the software in totality, but that should not mess up
any of your "document" files. However, I'd save all of my documents
first (by documents, I meand word documents, excel spreadheets,
powerpoint presentations, etc.).

However, I do agree with the advice to just buy a new retail boxed copy
from whichever retailer has it at the lowest price. Sometimes it's as
little as $99 for the "Students & Teachers" edition, which allows legal
installation on up to 3 computers.

If I do that will I mess up all the work I have done to set up my Outlook
mail and the files I have in word. Will loading a CD start the Office with a
clean slate or will it let me keep what I have.

Thank you for the reply

:

This is just my opinion. Order the software from Amazon.com. It's a bit less
expensive than most places PLUS you will have the CDs and not just an email
with a product key that you won't be able to find when you need it most.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

My trail version of Office is about to expire. I want to convert and pay
for
the for my Office 2003. I could not find the original product key number
so
they gave me one. It would not work to convert so I waited a while and got
a
new one. It will not work either. How do I activate the product. Help

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

*IF* you are a qualified purchaser, it is a good deal.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

It will reinstall the software in totality, but that should not mess up
any of your "document" files. However, I'd save all of my documents first
(by documents, I meand word documents, excel spreadheets, powerpoint
presentations, etc.).

However, I do agree with the advice to just buy a new retail boxed copy
from whichever retailer has it at the lowest price. Sometimes it's as
little as $99 for the "Students & Teachers" edition, which allows legal
installation on up to 3 computers.

If I do that will I mess up all the work I have done to set up my Outlook
mail and the files I have in word. Will loading a CD start the Office
with a clean slate or will it let me keep what I have.

Thank you for the reply

:

This is just my opinion. Order the software from Amazon.com. It's a bit
less expensive than most places PLUS you will have the CDs and not just
an email with a product key that you won't be able to find when you need
it most.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]




My trail version of Office is about to expire. I want to convert and pay
for
the for my Office 2003. I could not find the original product key number
so
they gave me one. It would not work to convert so I waited a while and
got a
new one. It will not work either. How do I activate the product. Help

 

[Barry Watzman]

Microsoft has said that they do not mind use of the S&T version by
anyone who is a non-commercial private user, even if they are not
technically a student or teacher. In fact, in the next release, it's
going to be renamed ("Office Home", I believe). However, they are
dropping Outlook, which I view as a serious mistake. I understand the
reason (to keep corporate customers from using it), but a better
solution would be to create a version of outlook for the Home product
that only supported Internet E-Mail and that would not act as an
Exchange Server client.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I've never heard that Microsoft "doesn't mind". I know what they plan to do
in the next version - but that's not released yet so it's a moot point.

As for Outlook, I have it and don't use it. My ISP doesn't support it and I
prefer to read my newsgroups and my mail all with the same program. Makes my
life a bit simpler. I don't need the calendar so why change.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Ah, little grasshopper, I see I will have some remedial education to do next
March!! <eg>

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, JoAnn Paules [MVP] asked:

| I've never heard that Microsoft "doesn't mind". I know what they plan
| to do in the next version - but that's not released yet so it's a
| moot point.
|
| As for Outlook, I have it and don't use it. My ISP doesn't support it
| and I prefer to read my newsgroups and my mail all with the same
| program. Makes my life a bit simpler. I don't need the calendar so
| why change.
|
|
| || Microsoft has said that they do not mind use of the S&T version by
|| anyone who is a non-commercial private user, even if they are not
|| technically a student or teacher. In fact, in the next release,
|| it's going to be renamed ("Office Home", I believe). However, they
|| are dropping Outlook, which I view as a serious mistake. I
|| understand the reason (to keep corporate customers from using it),
|| but a better solution would be to create a version of outlook for
|| the Home product that only supported Internet E-Mail and that would
|| not act as an Exchange Server client.
||
||
||
|| JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote:
||
||| *IF* you are a qualified purchaser, it is a good deal.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

You are more than welcome to try. I am willing to listen to your
suggestions. And I'll listen to them before March.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

 

[Barry Watzman]

I'm sure that your ISP does support outlook .... since I know of none
that don't support POP3 and SMTP E-Mail.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

And most people do not realize that all they have to do is take the
instructions for Outlook Express, which is supported since it comes with IE,
and apply them to Outlook, usually without needing and massaging.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, JoAnn Paules [MVP] asked:

| No, they don't. They stated that directly. All that really means is
| that they won't answer any tech support questions relating to it. It
| has nothing to do with whether or not I could use Outlook.
|
|
| || I'm sure that your ISP does support outlook .... since I know of
|| none that don't support POP3 and SMTP E-Mail.
||
||
|| JoAnn Paules [MVP] wrote:
||| I've never heard that Microsoft "doesn't mind". I know what they
||| plan to do in the next version - but that's not released yet so
||| it's a moot point.
|||
||| As for Outlook, I have it and don't use it. My ISP doesn't support
||| it and I prefer to read my newsgroups and my mail all with the same
||| program. Makes my life a bit simpler. I don't need the calendar so
||| why change.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

Probably but you know how easy it is to just kind of go with the flow if it
suits your needs.


--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]"

 

[Davy]

I loaded a out of date CAD programme...by turning the calendar back
think this has been suggested.

Anyone wanting to find their Office key once it's been installed hav
a look here-

http://www.petri.co.il/quickly_retrieve_windows_cd_key.ht

there are similar simple programmes to find your XP os key.

Dav

 

[ANONYMOUS]

Microsoft has said that they do not mind use of the S&T version by
anyone who is a non-commercial private user, even if they are not
technically a student or teacher. In fact, in the next release, it's
going to be renamed ("Office Home", I believe). However, they are
dropping Outlook, which I view as a serious mistake. I understand the
reason (to keep corporate customers from using it), but a better
solution would be to create a version of outlook for the Home product
that only supported Internet E-Mail and that would not act as an
Exchange Server client.

I thught they already had an email client called Outlook Express which
does everything one would want from an email software. In Vista it will
be renamed to Windows Mail. Some say it is a different product but I
think it is the same product by different name for marketing purposes.

hth

 

[Barry Watzman]

They do have an E-Mail client called Outlook Express. It is a very
different program from Outlook, in spite of the similarity of the names.
Whether it does everything that you want is in the eye of the user; it
most definitely does not do everything that outlook does, and it has
some critical differences, including the message store (outlook stores
EVERYTHING in one single PST file, while the message store for outlook
express can run to thousands of files for someone like me who has tens
of thousands of E-Mail messages in his message store).

The differences between Outlook and Outlook express are HUGE. They are
very different programs, although, in the very broad sense, both are
"E-Mail clients".