Office 2003 Pro came free

[DeWitt]

Some months ago, Microsoft sent me an email offering to give me a fully
functional version of Office 2003 Pro, I suppose because of the nature of my
job here. It was
available only as a download.

It IS complete and fully functional, incl. Access, Pwrpnt, and Pub. I can
and have updated it from the Office Update site. It is NOT a time-limited
trial version.

I can't find any remnants of the installation process on the computer,
except under "Add or Remove Programs." My question is, if I were to re-format
my drive and reinstall all op. sys. and apps., is there any process by which
I can reinstall Office 2003?

 

[Bob I]

Only by following the procedure by which it was installed the first time.

 

[DeWitt]

Yes, but that's what I'm trying to find out -- can I get MS to let me do it
again, and if so, how?

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

Some months ago, Microsoft sent me an email offering to give me a
fully functional version of Office 2003 Pro, I suppose because of the
nature of my job here.

Sorry if I sound a little sceptical, but what is your job? The only way a
fully functional version of Office can be downloaded is via an MSDN
subscription. I have never heard of MS offering "a fully functional
downloadable version" to someone at random. They sent me a full version of
Office, but it was in a box.

It was

available only as a download.

So, unless it was a streaming download, why didn't you (or don't you) burn
it to CD? The downloads I've had from MS (Win XP 64-bit for example) were
ISOs and required burning before they could be installed.

It IS complete and fully functional, incl. Access, Pwrpnt, and Pub. I
can and have updated it from the Office Update site. It is NOT a
time-limited trial version.

I can't find any remnants of the installation process on the computer,
except under "Add or Remove Programs." My question is, if I were to
re-format my drive and reinstall all op. sys. and apps., is there any
process by which I can reinstall Office 2003?

As I said above where is the installation executable.

 

[Miss Perspicacia Tick]

Yes, but that's what I'm trying to find out -- can I get MS to let me
do it again, and if so, how?

Well call MS and ask then! This isn't it.

 

[DeWitt]

My job is HR Director. I don't know why MS made this offer to me - we're
certainly not a high volume user of MS products - but offer they did, and I
was only too happy to take them up on it.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi DeWitt,

Without more to go on as to the promotion involved,
you may want to obtain an Office 2003 Professional trial
CD and activate it with the Product Key you received for
the Office 2003 Professional edition you have if
you can't do a reinstall through Add/Remove Programs in
the Windows control panel. The download may have been
stored on your hard drive as a Local Install Source (LIS)
or as a CD image.

You can order a trial CD here
http://www.microsoft.com/office/trial/
or you may want to phone Microsoft. I'm assuming the
promotional material would have a contact link or
phone number.

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Some months ago, Microsoft sent me an email offering to give me a fully
functional version of Office 2003 Pro, I suppose because of the nature of my
job here. It was
available only as a download.

It IS complete and fully functional, incl. Access, Pwrpnt, and Pub. I can
and have updated it from the Office Update site. It is NOT a time-limited
trial version.

I can't find any remnants of the installation process on the computer,
except under "Add or Remove Programs." My question is, if I were to re-format
my drive and reinstall all op. sys. and apps., is there any process by which
I can reinstall Office 2003?>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

Office 2003 Editions explained
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx

 

[DeWitt]

Thanks, Bob, this is the only reply that has given me anything at all to go on.

As to referring to the original documentation, that's part of the problem -
I must have deleted all that stuff as soon as I installed the software - duh!

 

[John Doue]

Miss Perspicacia Tick wrote:

snip

So, unless it was a streaming download, why didn't you (or don't you) burn
it to CD? The downloads I've had from MS (Win XP 64-bit for example) were
ISOs and required burning before they could be installed.

snip

ISO files do NOT require being burnt to a CD to be run. Winrar for one
will open them and let you copy the contents to any directory you want
and from there, you can run the program. Other utilities like Isobuster
(from what I read, did not use it myself) do the same thing.