Officexp 2002 won't accept my serial to put back MS Word

[abrogard]

I tried to install office 2007 but the disk was no good and I had to abort. I set it to replace only my Word in my Office 2002 setup.

When the install aborted and rewound, which it all did properly, it left me without Word.

so I got my old disk out and tried to install Word. It won't accept the serial!

I checked the serial in use for my current Office 2002 installation and sure enough it is the one on the package and the one I tried to use.

But it won't let me install Word with it. It says it is invalid.

Is there any way round this ?

regards,

ab

[aedipuss]

uninstall all versions of office in add/remove programs?

other than that maybe re-format/re-install windows and try installing from scratch.

[INFRATOM]

run the disk again see if you can uninstall, if no use an uninstaller and registry cleaner. some uninstaller are free and clean out your computer reboot then install your old office. 2007 versions are vista friendly suggest not to use it on older system, besides you have to learn where everything is.

[abrogard]

Thanks for the responses, guys. So it looks like a total uninstall is the way? OK. I can do that if I have to.

I'm interested in what you say about 2007. I'm only doing it so's my wife can have a look at it so's she can apply for a job which requires knowledge of Office - and we don't know which Office they've got or which OS they've got but I guess there's a good chance they'll have Vista and Office 2007.

And we've only got XP and Office 2002 (of which we've now not got Word )

I guess we could run it long enough to have a look and then chuck it out and go back to our old setup? It will run on XP?

[abrogard]

Bit funny this. I got an email this morning saying aedipuss had replied to my post and quoting the reply. But I only see a portion of it here and it was two posts ago ! Maybe i've got it all mixed up somehow.

But he says there's no Office 2002 version. Well I'll tell you what I did. I went into my Excel and looked under 'about excel' and read 2002. that's how I decided I had a 2002 version.

I think what I'll do is install Open Office and have done with this MS bother once and for all. And install 2007 if it'll run and just let the wife have a look, see if there's any major differences and then chuck that out, too.

p.s.

I just took a look at the Access installation and it, too, says "2002"

[Number Six]

Office XP is also known as Office 2002.

[abrogard]

Well thanks for that, Six.

Solution was pretty simple, too, I just went to uninstall progs in control panel there and it let me repair the installation.

Still wonder why it wouldn't let Word install without prompting for the number (the repair - in which I asked for word again - didn't ask for anything) and I still wonder why it wouldn't accept the number it was currently residing under.

But there you go: less and less we understand what our machines are doing. And more and more our machines are mere adjuncts to the web, forever communicating with it in the background doing we don't know what. It's about time for a utility which logs and informs you of every registry entry changed or created, every file changed or written to your hard drive.

But I don't know of any such thing. Not yet anyway.

[lacywest]

Not that it matters but I use MS Office 2002 ... and MS Office 2007 ... but not Outlook 2002 ... I could not have both installed ... so I use Outlook 2007 ... which I like better because it has a junk mail filter.

[abrogard]

I might do something similar. I like 2007 excel because I like that zoom back feature. But I don't like the look and feel of Word. Outlook I don't want at all but perhaps must have to help the wife out. OK, take Outlook 2007 because of what you say, lacy.

[lacywest]

As a addon ... I dont use the CDs ... I copy the setup install files directly to a folder I call C-Drive Files ... inside that folder is another folder called ... Do Not Delete.

I then install quite abit of my programs from there ... that way I dont have to dig out the setup install CDs everytime MS Office wants to add something I chose to not install but I realize later ... yeah ... I do want it.

Works very nicely.

[abrogard]

Yes, good idea. I don't know why I haven't developed that habit myself. Time to start now, I guess, if I can find room. Might have to do some spring cleaning first....



ah... just had a second thought... vague memories of when some game progs and even apps wouldn't install without the CD and some times when I've relied on the hard drive files - for a reinstall perhaps? - and the prog has prompted me for the serial, which doesn't appear anywhere amongst the downloaded files.

So if I do this I must be very careful to copy serials to the directory.

And progs that won't install without the CD (or DVD these days I guess) - are they extinct?