11-05-2006, 05:11 PM
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Advice on install of Office 2003
I purchased a Dell with Microsoft Office 2003 Professional preinstalled, it came with the CD and key as a backup. I went to install it on another computer and the user agreement said this copy can only be installed on one computer. If I accept that agreement, will it disable the original computer that has the program installed on it? I can't proceed if that is the case. I need advice before I continue. Thank you
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11-05-2006, 06:07 PM
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No, it can't shut down the first computer. But you may have to call this one in to get activation and there may or may not be a problem. Don't say you have it on another computer if you call it in-they dont like that!
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11-06-2006, 06:16 AM
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Once you activate the 2nd machine it will disable the activation on the 1st machine.
Well, that's a little misleading. It doesn't actually do anything TO your machine, but the registration key assigned to computer #1 will be deleted from their license DB. So then next time computer #1 connects to the internet for an update, it'll tell you that the key is no longer valid. |
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11-06-2006, 08:06 AM
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11-06-2006, 09:25 AM
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...22240&from=rss
Put Open Office (http://openoffice.org) or OxygenOffice (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ooop) on the other machine... Quote:
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11-06-2006, 09:31 AM
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11-06-2006, 10:05 AM
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If you are doing a lot of collaborative (many users in an office making changes to a shared document / spreadsheet / presentation) work, you'll probably want MS Office 03. If you're like the other 85-90% of us (that collectively only use about half of MS Office's capabilities and features), OpenOffice will work just fine. OpenOffice Base is limited compared to MS Access, but I don't have a need for either so no problem (for me) there... It is free - download it, try it, and if it won't do what you want it to, uninstall it and get yourself a copy of MS Office 03 Student. Once you install it, open up Writer (the OpenOffice counterpart to MS Word). Go to Tools, Options from the menu bar. When the Options window opens, there's a tree-view column on the left. Expand the Load/Save tree, and then click on General. You can then use the drop-down selections to set Open Office so that it saves Writer documents in MS Word 97/2000/XP .doc format by default. You can do the same thing with Calc (save as MS Excel 97/2000/XP .xls format), and Impress (save as MS PowerPoint 97/2000/XP .ppt format). This makes it easy to share files with MS Office users. |
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