Publisher 2003 PID

[Harold]

I cannot find any combination of 25 characters on the CD
case or on the Certificate of Authenticity that works as
a Product ID Code.

Has anyone encountered and overcome this problem?

 

[Ed Bennett]

After managing to set up OE-QuoteFix on his new PC, Ed reads a message

I cannot find any combination of 25 characters on the CD
case or on the Certificate of Authenticity that works as
a Product ID Code.

If you got Publisher boxed, then on the back of the CD-Case, you should have
a code written in the form:
XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX.
If you got it with your computer, then it will be on the Certificate of
Authenticity in the same format.
Try exchanging Bs for 8s or vice-versa - they're very easily confused.

 

[Cerridwen]

Actually the Product code is on the inside of the CD case on a
school-bus yellow sticker that says "Product Key". If it came with a
computer, generally your CDs shrinkwrapped with a paper Certificate
of Authenticity.

How did you acquire your version of Publisher?

Jo - our school buses are either red, white, green, black or blue or, very
occasionally, purple. I can't tell where he's posting from, as he's using
the CDO, but "school-bus yellow" means nothing to us Brits. ;o)

 

[Cerridwen]

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh - a purple school bus would be cool instead of really
dorky. Maybe fewer students would ride the bus instead of riding
their parents' back about having their own wheels. Nahhhhhhhh, but
it's a thought.

Well, lets see, what's a good description for that shade of yellow?
http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/odds/sby.htm

That site explains it better than I eer could. ;-)

Things work a little differently over here - the 'buses' are actually
private hire coaches, hired by the local council to run between the
different schools. So, one company would take kids to High School A, and
another company would do High School B, unlike in the US where, and correct
me if I'm wrong, not all the kids on the one bus go to the same school (at
least that's what my 10 year old second cousin tells me - her and her 7 year
old brother take the same bus, but she's at Junior High and he's still at
primary). In this country, coaches are only laid on for high schools
(11-18) - junior school (8-10) and infant school (3-7) are usually taken by
their parents (even if the damned school is only a ½-mile away - why they
can't WALK I'll never know - no wonder there's such a rise in childhood
obesity!). OK, maybe that's too far for the little ones, but by the time
they get to 6/7 they can surely manage half-a-mile?!

In some rare cases, where a school is on a main bus route (like the local
'community college' - not a college at all, but a high school) then kids
will be picked up by a normal bus. This, however, has the knock-on effect of
the buses only running between school hours (like the only route I can take
anywhere - the last bus is at 5pm!)

If parents want their kids to use school transport, then they must pay for
the privilege - I never had to, but my sister did her A-levels at a state
school and it cost £1500 for the year.