| Subject: Cannot install Office 2003 |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 4/28/2008 7:50:34 AM |
| From: "Jeff Johnson" [Email Address Protection] |
I have a need to do some VSTO programming against Office 2003 files. I had Office 2007 on my system and uninstalled it so I could install 2003 (Pro), which I previously had installed before 2007. But now the setup program is telling me that the product key I have given it is not a valid key. ??? This is the key I got via the MSDN subscriber section. Not only that, but I checked my personal subscription key (I'm at work and was trying--rightly--to use the key for that subscription) I found that they're exactly the same! Yes, I have rebooted my computer since uninstalling 2007. No, it didn't help. Any ideas? I can't imagine this is a junk-left-over-in-registry situation, but who knows? |
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| Subject: Re: Cannot install Office 2003 |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 4/28/2008 8:01:08 AM |
| From: "Jeff Johnson" [Email Address Protection] |
"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.spam> wrote in message news:IKGdnaj1tIqmeYjVnZ2dnUVZ_tuonZ2d@datapex... >I have a need to do some VSTO programming against Office 2003 files. I had >Office 2007 on my system and uninstalled it so I could install 2003 (Pro), >which I previously had installed before 2007. But now the setup program is >telling me that the product key I have given it is not a valid key. > > ??? > > This is the key I got via the MSDN subscriber section. Not only that, but > I checked my personal subscription key (I'm at work and was > trying--rightly--to use the key for that subscription) I found that > they're exactly the same! > > Yes, I have rebooted my computer since uninstalling 2007. No, it didn't > help. Any ideas? I can't imagine this is a junk-left-over-in-registry > situation, but who knows? The solution in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842566 LOOKED like it worked (all the files got copied) but the first Office product I ran asked for a CD key and rejected the one I entered. |
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| Subject: Re: Cannot install Office 2003 |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 4/28/2008 8:30:48 AM |
| From: "Jeff Johnson" [Email Address Protection] |
"Jeff Johnson" <i.get@enough.spam> wrote in message news:-Z-dnVoTZYQoe4jVnZ2dnUVZ_h-vnZ2d@datapex... HO-LY CRAP! The keys have changed! I noticed that the description for the product key on the MSDN site was "Office Professional Enterprise and Standard Edition 2003 (New)." So I finally focused on "(New)" and went and found an old XML product key export I had (FORTUNATELY) made a while back. It had a completely different key and THAT ONE WORKED! I suppose if I had downloaded the ISO from MSDN then the new product key probably would have worked. Hopefully this post will help anyone else who is an MSDN disc pack rat like I am and uses an old disc. I have to wonder what the point was behind changing this in the first place.... |
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