Re: moving office XP for educators to a new computer

From: Jupiter Jones [MVP] (jones_jupiter_at_hotnomail.com)
Date: 08/31/04


Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:24:51 -0600

John;
You are probably referring to Activation which is required and not
Registration which is optional.
Remove Microsoft office XP from the laptop.
Have her choose the option to activate by phone.
Call Microsoft at the displayed number, done in about 5 minutes.

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Jupiter Jones  [MVP]
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"John Young" <jdy4651@bellsouth.net> wrote in message 
news:09de01c48f63$32c9b270$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> My daughter bought an education copy of Microsoft office
> XP when she was in High School and installed it on her
> laptop. Now she has gone off to college and has a new
> desktop. She wants to deinstall it on the laptop and
> install it on the new computer. She did install it and now
> it will not let her register it despite having the product
> key. How do we do this and how can we contact Microsoft to
> get what we need 


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