Office 97 Update

[rdbatten]

I bought my Dell computer in Sept 1997 through my company
(Shell) and as part of the purchase MS Office Professional
1997 was installed. I received a cd entitled Shell Home PC
Program MS Office-97 PRO(SR1) with a key code per
Microsoft agreement # 52-40022. I am ready to buy a new
computer and my question is can I buy the Microsoft Office
Upgrade package for 2003 or do I have to buy the new
version. The problem is I tried to load a copy of the cd
to my laptop and it would not load the Access program
without verification which I don't know what to do.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi R.D.,

You should be able to use the Office 2003 upgrade editions.
If Access gave you an error message about 'no license' it's
a bug. http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=141373

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I bought my Dell computer in Sept 1997 through my company
(Shell) and as part of the purchase MS Office Professional
1997 was installed. I received a cd entitled Shell Home PC
Program MS Office-97 PRO(SR1) with a key code per
Microsoft agreement # 52-40022. I am ready to buy a new
computer and my question is can I buy the Microsoft Office
Upgrade package for 2003 or do I have to buy the new
version. The problem is I tried to load a copy of the cd
to my laptop and it would not load the Access program
without verification which I don't know what to do. >>
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Hope that helps,

Bob Buckland ? MS Office Products family MVP
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