Can I load my copy of 2003 on Wind 7?

[Butchy]

I have an Office Standard Edition 2003 that I have used for a few years. I
just bought a new Sony laptop and would like to load my Office 2003 on it.
Can I do that? It is saying "The product key you entered requires a version
of MS Office 97, 2000 or XP to upgrade." I admit that I don't know how all of
these upgrades, etc. work. It seems that I purchased it 3-4 years ago and
should be able to use it still or be able to upgrade without having to
purchase a whole new OFFICE. What can I do? Thanks.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Butchy

What you have is an Upgrade version of Office Standard. That means that you will
need a qualifying upgrade product to be able to install it. Do you have MS Office
97, 2000 or XP that you can use as proof of Upgrade?

 

[johnbluekipper]

Hi Butchy

I too have a similar problem. When I bought my old sony laptop back in
2006 it came with a trial version of office 2003. Since I needed to have
powerpoint I bought a retail upgrade to Small Business Edition - for
which I have a set of discs. Looking at my EULA onscreen in any of the
office applications, it says I can load the office software onto a
second device as long as I am only using one of them at any one time. I
have now bought a new sony laptop with vista business which I upgraded
to Win7 professional over the holidays.

When I try and run the Office SBE upgrade discs on the new laptop I
get the message you got ie. "The product key you entered requires a
version of microsoft office 97, 2000 or xp to upgrade. If one of these
versions of MS office is not installed on your machine, you will need to
supply a version of MS office on cd-rom in the next step."

I don't have any discs for the trial office version but I do have a
"paid for" upgrade set of discs and an EULA that says I can copy Office
onto another machine - But I can't see how to resolve the problem. There
does'nt seem to be any way of contacting MS to discuss the issue unless
you pay £46/day on your creditcard to speak with MS technical support -
who may or may not have an answer.

I don't want to move to Office 2007 since I need to continue to run
excel 2003 because I use excel 2003 workbooks with embedded macros
designed by my employer and they have not yet been tested/redesigned for
excel 2007.

Having previously paid out to upgrade to 2003 SBE Office I don't see
why I should now have to buy a new stand alone version of 2003 SBE
office.

Does anybody have a solution that does'nt cost the earth?

John

 

[Roy Smith]

Hi Butchy

I too have a similar problem. When I bought my old sony laptop back in
2006 it came with a trial version of office 2003. Since I needed to have
powerpoint I bought a retail upgrade to Small Business Edition - for
which I have a set of discs. Looking at my EULA onscreen in any of the
office applications, it says I can load the office software onto a
second device as long as I am only using one of them at any one time. I
have now bought a new sony laptop with vista business which I upgraded
to Win7 professional over the holidays.

When I try and run the Office SBE upgrade discs on the new laptop I
get the message you got ie. "The product key you entered requires a
version of microsoft office 97, 2000 or xp to upgrade. If one of these
versions of MS office is not installed on your machine, you will need to
supply a version of MS office on cd-rom in the next step."

I don't have any discs for the trial office version but I do have a
"paid for" upgrade set of discs and an EULA that says I can copy Office
onto another machine - But I can't see how to resolve the problem. There
does'nt seem to be any way of contacting MS to discuss the issue unless
you pay £46/day on your creditcard to speak with MS technical support -
who may or may not have an answer.

I don't want to move to Office 2007 since I need to continue to run
excel 2003 because I use excel 2003 workbooks with embedded macros
designed by my employer and they have not yet been tested/redesigned for
excel 2007.

Having previously paid out to upgrade to 2003 SBE Office I don't see
why I should now have to buy a new stand alone version of 2003 SBE
office.

Does anybody have a solution that does'nt cost the earth?

Try downloading the trial version from here:

http://www.brothersoft.com/microsoft-office-2003-169273.html

install it and then see if your upgrade disk will work.


Roy Smith
Windows 7

Timestamp: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:49:15 AM