Installing Office XP Professional

[Bob]

I am trying to reinstall Office XP Professional on my laptop because it
became necessary for me to restore my hard drive. My copy of Office
2000 is an "Upgrade" version because I have a copy of Office 97.
Unfortunately I am a long way way from home and will be for another two
months. While I did think to bring with me my Office XP disks, I
failed to bring my copy of Office 97, so I am not able to reinstall my
upgrade version of Office XP software.

I had previously registered my Office XP version with Microsoft on the
same computer that I am now trying to re-install it on. I understand
Microsoft retrieves some kind of a fingerprint from your computer when
you register Office with them. Since I am trying to reinstall it on my
same computer, is there some workaround that I can do to accomplish the
install? Or is there somebody at Microsoft I can call to help with
this? I assume Microsoft can determine that it is the same computer
that I had previously sucessfully registered it on. I keep getting a
message to provide my copy of Office 97, which I do not currently have
access to.

I don't want to have to buy a copy of the latest Microsoft Office
software. I know all this copy protection stuff helps the software
providers, but it sure causes problems for legitimate users. Any help
will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

The only way to clean install an upgrade version
of Office XP Professional is to have the actual
qualifying Office 97 CD on hand to insert in
the CD drive when prompted to do so. There
are no workarounds other than to purchase a
"Full Version" of Microsoft Office. Since
you apparently do have the Office XP CD, you
could purchase an Upgrade Version of Microsoft
Office 2003.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows - Shell/User
Microsoft Community Newsgroups
news://msnews.microsoft.com/

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| I am trying to reinstall Office XP Professional on my laptop because it
| became necessary for me to restore my hard drive. My copy of Office
| 2000 is an "Upgrade" version because I have a copy of Office 97.
| Unfortunately I am a long way way from home and will be for another two
| months. While I did think to bring with me my Office XP disks, I
| failed to bring my copy of Office 97, so I am not able to reinstall my
| upgrade version of Office XP software.
|
| I had previously registered my Office XP version with Microsoft on the
| same computer that I am now trying to re-install it on. I understand
| Microsoft retrieves some kind of a fingerprint from your computer when
| you register Office with them. Since I am trying to reinstall it on my
| same computer, is there some workaround that I can do to accomplish the
| install? Or is there somebody at Microsoft I can call to help with
| this? I assume Microsoft can determine that it is the same computer
| that I had previously sucessfully registered it on. I keep getting a
| message to provide my copy of Office 97, which I do not currently have
| access to.
|
| I don't want to have to buy a copy of the latest Microsoft Office
| software. I know all this copy protection stuff helps the software
| providers, but it sure causes problems for legitimate users. Any help
| will be greatly appreciated.
|

 

[Bob I]

Contact someone at your "home location" and have them send you the 97 CD.