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Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$
programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it Any suggestions extremely welcome. Thanks. |
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On 13/04/2018 03:30, Robert Baer wrote:
Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$ programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it Any suggestions extremely welcome. Thanks. Why not use a free online Excel? You only need Microsoft Account that is also free (hotmail, outlook or MSN). The file you create can be saved on your hard disk so don't be fooled by people telling you that it is in the cloud because it is not. It is yours on your HD. The App is in the cloud but who cares as long as you have internet when you want it. https://products.office.com/en-gb/office-online/documents-spreadsheets-presentations-office-online Office 2003 cannot be activated as the servers has been closed down by Microsoft. You need to use Telephone method to activate it in the same way as Windows XP. Good luck. /--- This email has been checked for viruses by Windows Defender software. //https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/ -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Good Guy wrote:
On 13/04/2018 03:30, Robert Baer wrote: Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$ programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it Any suggestions extremely welcome. Thanks. Why not use a free online Excel? You only need Microsoft Account that is also free (hotmail, outlook or MSN). The file you create can be saved on your hard disk so don't be fooled by people telling you that it is in the cloud because it is not. It is yours on your HD. The App is in the cloud but who cares as long as you have internet when you want it. https://products.office.com/en-gb/office-online/documents-spreadsheets-presentations-office-online Office 2003 cannot be activated as the servers has been closed down by Microsoft. You need to use Telephone method to activate it in the same way as Windows XP. Good luck. 1. Every version of Excel is different, and Excel 2003 has some useful and needed methods, not available elsewhere. 2., Online? Where i have ZERO control, ZERO portability, and ZERO security? Clouds tend to rain...and blow away. 3 The so-called "Telephone method" cannot work as the phone number was disconnected a few years ago. |
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On 16/04/2018 06:46, Robert Baer wrote:
1. Every version of Excel is different, and Excel 2003 has some useful and needed methods, not available elsewhere. you are a complete idiot who knows nothing about excel. Modern Excel packages can do everything what old excel used to do and better!! 2., Online? Where i have ZERO control, ZERO portability, and ZERO security? Clouds tend to rain...and blow away. There you go; Confirmation of your mental imbalance! I said quite clearly what online version is about. 3 The so-called "Telephone method" cannot work as the phone number was disconnected a few years ago. You must be living in Taliban caves in remote part of Afghanistan. Have you heard of Skype? It can do free phones to Microsoft Help Line and activation servers. Frankly, you should really be using something else because pirates are not able to use Microsoft products these days because of advanced technology Microsoft is using. /--- This email has been checked for viruses by Windows Defender software. //https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/comprehensive-security/ -- With over 600 million devices now running Windows 10, customer satisfaction is higher than any previous version of windows. |
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Good Guy wrote:
On 16/04/2018 06:46, Robert Baer wrote: 1. Every version of Excel is different, and Excel 2003 has some useful and needed methods, not available elsewhere. you are a complete idiot who knows nothing about excel. Modern Excel packages can do everything what old excel used to do and better!! * It is YOU that is ignorant. Excel 2003 supports ActivePrinter = "Acrobat PDFWriter on FILE:" And Excel 2010 barfs. Also, copied directly from WORKING Excel 2003 code into Excel 2010: 'In "modern" defective Excel apps, following prints to default printer 'as a file AND prompts file name; file in printer format, NOT PDF format ActiveWindow.SelectedSheets.PrintOut Copies:=1, Preview:=False, _ ActivePrinter:="Acrobat PDFWriter on FILE:", PrintToFile:=True, _ Collate:=False, PrToFilename:=pPath + vNam * In Excel 2003 i can put the code in a loop and print a PDF to a file each time, each PDF having a different pattern that can be used at a workstation. * So, here are TWO exceptions to your "can do everything" ignorance. 2., Online? Where i have ZERO control, ZERO portability, and ZERO security? Clouds tend to rain...and blow away. There you go; Confirmation of your mental imbalance! I said quite clearly what online version is about. 3 The so-called "Telephone method" cannot work as the phone number was disconnected a few years ago. You must be living in Taliban caves in remote part of Afghanistan. Have you heard of Skype? It can do free phones to Microsoft Help Line and activation servers. * To a DISCONNECTED line? Here is a phone number from someone that called me: 1(503)261-1531 Have fun. Frankly, you should really be using something else because pirates are not able to use Microsoft products these days because of advanced technology Microsoft is using. |
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Robert Baer wrote:
Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$ programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it Any suggestions extremely welcome. Thanks. This is what passes for help. https://web.archive.org/web/20070203....com/kb/821593 It's a lot more complicated than that, if you've been mixing trial versions and paid versions, and expecting everything to go well. The message there, is this: 1) Go to Add/Remove programs. 2) Notice that in addition to Remove, the Office item has a Repair option. 3) Try the Repair option. Note that Office in the past, was sensitive to the drive letter of the inserted CD with the software on it. If you were installing Office from E:\ , it's in your best interest during the repair, to have that same optical drive still being at E:\. Some other software isn't quite that sensitive to how it was installed. There are a few little details like that for Office, but I was only looking over someones shoulder when this was discussed. While some softwares rely on "cached" copies of a .msi already on the C: drive to implement a Repair run, I don't know if Office works that way. The insistence on using the CD, comes from an era where physical media was used as a "proof of purchase" (i.e. they made products with multiple-CD sets, just to complicate life for the pirates of the time who were running dialup modems). Which seems like a silly idea today. Paul |
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I'm glad I kept all my installation CD's from the
Dell 8200 as I've used them to put Word and Excel on the Dell 8500. Robert |
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Mark Twain wrote:
I'm glad I kept all my installation CD's from the Dell 8200 as I've used them to put Word and Excel on the Dell 8500. Robert So...does that mean the Dell CDs do not bitch about activation? |
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Paul wrote:
Robert Baer wrote: Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$ programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it Any suggestions extremely welcome. Thanks. This is what passes for help. https://web.archive.org/web/20070203....com/kb/821593 It's a lot more complicated than that, if you've been mixing trial versions and paid versions, and expecting everything to go well. The message there, is this: 1) Go to Add/Remove programs. 2) Notice that in addition to Remove, the Office item has a Repair option. 3) Try the Repair option. Note that Office in the past, was sensitive to the drive letter of the inserted CD with the software on it. If you were installing Office from E:\ , it's in your best interest during the repair, to have that same optical drive still being at E:\. Some other software isn't quite that sensitive to how it was installed. There are a few little details like that for Office, but I was only looking over someones shoulder when this was discussed. While some softwares rely on "cached" copies of a .msi already on the C: drive to implement a Repair run, I don't know if Office works that way. The insistence on using the CD, comes from an era where physical media was used as a "proof of purchase" (i.e. they made products with multiple-CD sets, just to complicate life for the pirates of the time who were running dialup modems). Which seems like a silly idea today. Paul Paid version, one CD. On different HD; thanks for the drive letter info. Would use of SUBST be of use? |
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Robert Baer wrote:
Paul wrote: Robert Baer wrote: Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$ programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it Any suggestions extremely welcome. Thanks. This is what passes for help. https://web.archive.org/web/20070203....com/kb/821593 It's a lot more complicated than that, if you've been mixing trial versions and paid versions, and expecting everything to go well. The message there, is this: 1) Go to Add/Remove programs. 2) Notice that in addition to Remove, the Office item has a Repair option. 3) Try the Repair option. Note that Office in the past, was sensitive to the drive letter of the inserted CD with the software on it. If you were installing Office from E:\ , it's in your best interest during the repair, to have that same optical drive still being at E:\. Some other software isn't quite that sensitive to how it was installed. There are a few little details like that for Office, but I was only looking over someones shoulder when this was discussed. While some softwares rely on "cached" copies of a .msi already on the C: drive to implement a Repair run, I don't know if Office works that way. The insistence on using the CD, comes from an era where physical media was used as a "proof of purchase" (i.e. they made products with multiple-CD sets, just to complicate life for the pirates of the time who were running dialup modems). Which seems like a silly idea today. Paul Paid version, one CD. On different HD; thanks for the drive letter info. Would use of SUBST be of use? I've just heard of the "quirk". There were probably more weird issues with copies of Office at work, than anything at home here. I don't know if SUBST is enough or not. You'd think it would suffice, because the issues are absolute paths stored somewhere (maybe in the registry?). Paul |
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On 13/04/2018 03:30, Robert Baer wrote:
Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$ programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it Any suggestions extremely welcome. Thanks. Office 2003 predates online activation. You need the original installation software (CDROM or ISO) and the multi digit key code which came with it. When you start the installation it will ask you to enter the code - doesn't even need an Internet connection. |
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MikeS wrote:
On 13/04/2018 03:30, Robert Baer wrote: Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$ programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it Any suggestions extremely welcome. Thanks. Office 2003 predates online activation. * NOT TRUE; see below. You need the original installation software (CDROM or ISO) and the multi digit key code which came with it. When you start the installation it will ask you to enter the code - doesn't even need an Internet connection. * Yes; BUT...it bitches and eXplicitly gives X number of uses if you do not activate it. |
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In message , Robert Baer
writes: MikeS wrote: On 13/04/2018 03:30, Robert Baer wrote: Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$ programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it Any suggestions extremely welcome. Thanks. Office 2003 predates online activation. * NOT TRUE; see below. You need the original installation software (CDROM or ISO) and the multi digit key code which came with it. When you start the installation it will ask you to enter the code - doesn't even need an Internet connection. * Yes; BUT...it bitches and eXplicitly gives X number of uses if you do not activate it. I never activated my Office 2003 (installed from CD), and was never prompted to do so - over some years of use. [XP machine.] I _was_ prompted for the key during installation, which I entered. I recently installed 2003 on this [7-32] machine (using a different key: I have two), and again was prompted for the key during installation, but saw (and have seen) no mention of activation, or a limited number of uses. Maybe there are different versions of Office 2003, some of which _do_ require activation? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf .... the pleasure of the mind is an amazing thing. My life has been driven by the satisfaction of curiosity. - Jeremy Paxman (being interviewed by Anne Widdecombe), Radio Times, 2-8 July 2011. |
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"J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , Robert Baer writes: MikeS wrote: On 13/04/2018 03:30, Robert Baer wrote: Please let me know how in the heck to install Excel 2003, as all M$ programs go thru the "activation" junk, and i need to re-install my Excel 2003 and (somehow) "activate" it Any suggestions extremely welcome. Thanks. Office 2003 predates online activation. * NOT TRUE; see below. You need the original installation software (CDROM or ISO) and the multi digit key code which came with it. When you start the installation it will ask you to enter the code - doesn't even need an Internet connection. * Yes; BUT...it bitches and eXplicitly gives X number of uses if you do not activate it. I never activated my Office 2003 (installed from CD), and was never prompted to do so - over some years of use. [XP machine.] I _was_ prompted for the key during installation, which I entered. I recently installed 2003 on this [7-32] machine (using a different key: I have two), and again was prompted for the key during installation, but saw (and have seen) no mention of activation, or a limited number of uses. Maybe there are different versions of Office 2003, some of which _do_ require activation? I agree with J.P. I use Word, Excel, and Outlook 2003, installed from the Office Pro disc I bought way back when. I've had to re-install it over the years/OS's without any activation requests, or any other problem (as long as I enter the number correctly, LOL!). Even works fine on my Win10 machines. -- SC Tom |
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On 16/04/2018 13:21, SC Tom wrote:
I agree with J.P. I use Word, Excel, and Outlook 2003, installed from the Office Pro disc I bought way back when. I've had to re-install it over the years/OS's without any activation requests, or any other problem (as long as I enter the number correctly, LOL!). Even works fine on my Win10 machines. I'm quite surprised to hear this, because recently, as a hopeful experiment, I tried installing Office 2000 on W7, and it wouldn't run. I'm having to use Office 2010 instead, although for most things I'm actually using LibreOffice. |
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