MIssing Key - upgrade from Office XP to Office 2003

[David Border]

I had Office 2003 installed on my laptop as an upgrade to Office XP. My
computer crashed and I have had to reinstall everything. Unfortunately -
don't laugh - my only record of the installation key for the upgrade was
entered as a Contact item in Outlook 2003. The problemis that I cannot open
the .pst file containing the Office 2003 key as I currently only have Office
XP installed. And I cannot install Office 2003 to be able to read the .pst
file as the only record of the key is in the .pst file I cannot open. I did
say don't laugh. Does anyone have any idea how I can get around this problem?

 

[garfield-n-odie]

See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=823570 "How to obtain a new
product key for Office program setup".

 

[Chris Schatte]

David Border,
You may have luck here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;823570
May not hurt to have a backup copy for next time...

Chris Schatte