why doesn't my activation wizard start?

[hatrick]

I have come to realise that i need to activate my product as everytime i open
it, the documents are locked, however when i click on 'activate product' in
the help menu nothing seems to happen, i have tried this several times in all
my office documents but the wizard does not start. Any suggestions?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Is this a trial version of the software?

 

[hatrick]

Originally it was, however the student & teacher edition was then purchased

Is this a trial version of the software?

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

I have come to realise that i need to activate my product as everytime i
open
it, the documents are locked, however when i click on 'activate product'
in
the help menu nothing seems to happen, i have tried this several times in
all
my office documents but the wizard does not start. Any suggestions?

 

[chris]

I'm having the same issue with a client's machine. He'd installed a demo, but
has since installed a version of Office Pro 2003 with a university Select
License. No good, no editting allowed.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled, used a registry cleaning tool, created
another admin user and did a clean install of the Office product....nothing.
Activation Wizard does nothing as this product has it's own site license code.
There doesn't seem to be anything on MS's site to help with this; it just
says run the activation wizard

I suppose I could always wipe the system and reinstall the OS and apps, but
that seems to be a bit of a hammer for what should be a simple application
preferences issue

Does anyone out there have another suggestion?

tia,
Chris

Originally it was, however the student & teacher edition was then purchased

Is this a trial version of the software?

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

I have come to realise that i need to activate my product as everytime i
open
it, the documents are locked, however when i click on 'activate product'
in
the help menu nothing seems to happen, i have tried this several times in
all
my office documents but the wizard does not start. Any suggestions?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Chris,

MS Select would normally be an enterprise (volume license)
product that would not use a retail key.

Check for the data.dat and data.bak files if
he had previously activated a product and see if moving them
to a different folder then restarting helps.

=========I'm having the same issue with a client's machine. He'd installed a demo, but
has since installed a version of Office Pro 2003 with a university Select
License. No good, no editting allowed.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled, used a registry cleaning tool, created
another admin user and did a clean install of the Office product....nothing.
Activation Wizard does nothing as this product has it's own site license code.
There doesn't seem to be anything on MS's site to help with this; it just
says run the activation wizard

I suppose I could always wipe the system and reinstall the OS and apps, but
that seems to be a bit of a hammer for what should be a simple application
preferences issue

Does anyone out there have another suggestion?

tia,
Chris >>
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Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

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