Hello Arthur,
The issue that you are encountering is documented in our Knowledge Base.
210437.KB.EN-US OFF2000: Products That Qualify for the Microsoft Office
Upgrade
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;210437
As you will see in the article mentioned above, there are several options
for qualifying products that will work with Office 2000.
After you have a qualifying product, you can follow the steps below to
install the upgrade version of Office 2000 without installing the
qualifying product itself.
1. Run Office 2000 Setup.
2. In the "User Information" dialog box, type your product key in the
"Product Key" boxes, and then click "OK".
3. In the "Product Compliance Check CD Key" dialog box, click "OK".
4. In the "Product Compliance Check" dialog box, in the "Drive" list,
click the CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive that contains the Office 2000 CD.
5. Remove the Office 2000 CD from the computer's CD-ROM or DVD-ROM, and
then insert the qualifying product CD.
6. Wait approximately 30 seconds to permit the computer's CD-ROM drive
to recognize the CD that you inserted.
7. In the "Product Compliance Check" dialog box, click "OK".
8. When the Microsoft Office 2000 End-User License Agreement (EULA)
appears, remove the CD for the previous version of Office from the
computer's CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive, and then insert the Office 2003 CD.
9. Click to select the "I accept the terms of the License Agreement"
check box after you read the End-User License Agreement (EULA), and
then click "Next".
10. Follow the instructions that are displayed on the screen to install
Office 2000.
Good luck,
Audey
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| I just formating my hard drive usibg Windows XP recover
| process which formared my drive. I now want to reinstall
| Office 2000 and it stops saying it can not find a previous
| version.
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| What can I do to get around this?
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