Installed Office 2003 Pro. OEM over Office 2000 Pro by mistake....

F

Fast.DC5

I installed Office 2003 Professional OEM on my Dell laptop and then attempted
to upgrade my desktop from Office 2000 Professional and got an activation
error message. After further review, apparently I needed RETAIL version to
do this. At this point, when I open 2003 Applications it asks to activate
and I have 48 opens left until features are disabled. I have no problem
purchasing a retail version to finish this install...but how would this
process be done? Since I did an upgrade, Office 2000 was deleted. I'd assume
once I get the RETAIL version of 2003 Professional, pop it in, and select
active? Or am I going to need to uninstall Office 2003 Professional OEM and
reinsall Office 2003 Professional RETAIL

Suggestions?

Thank You
 
C

Cari \(MS-MVP\)

Use the activate by phone method. There are no Upgrade versions of OEM
products, so the Office 2003 that you have will work just fine.
 
F

fantismo

I have the same problem. I try to activate MS word and it deleted the version
that came with my computer and now I can't activate the one that they
installed. I have a great suggestion: get a MAC
 

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