I've been trying to activate PowerPoint for a while and it keeps telling me I
have an invalid Product Key. I have Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003. How
can I activate it? I've been trying the product key that I have for a while
now and I haven't mistyped anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

In article <F92A64C4-72D6-4D3A-822D-(E-Mail Removed)>, Bevin wrote:
> I've been trying to activate PowerPoint for a while and it keeps telling me I
> have an invalid Product Key. I have Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003. How
> can I activate it? I've been trying the product key that I have for a while
> now and I haven't mistyped anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Most versions of Office 2003 have a key that looks like five clusters of five
numbers/letters each:

XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

Sometimes there's also a product ID or other number; make sure you're not using
that instead.

Basic Edition came with your PC, I assume; I don't think it's available as a
normal retail purchase. You may have to contact the computer manufacturer for
support with this one


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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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Are you trying to use the Office Basic key to activate PPT? That won't work.
Office Basic for 2003 didn't include PPT. If you want to add PPT, you need
to purchase it separately.

--
Kathy Jacobs, Microsoft MVP OneNote and PowerPoint
Author of Kathy Jacobs on PowerPoint
Get PowerPoint and OneNote information at www.onppt.com

I believe life is meant to be lived. But:
if we live without making a difference, it makes no difference that we lived

"Bevin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F92A64C4-72D6-4D3A-822D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've been trying to activate PowerPoint for a while and it keeps telling
> me I
> have an invalid Product Key. I have Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003.
> How
> can I activate it? I've been trying the product key that I have for a
> while
> now and I haven't mistyped anything. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

Contact Microsoft customer support.



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress
http://www.pfcmedia.com



"Bevin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F92A64C4-72D6-4D3A-822D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've been trying to activate PowerPoint for a while and it keeps telling
> me I
> have an invalid Product Key. I have Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003.
> How
> can I activate it? I've been trying the product key that I have for a
> while
> now and I haven't mistyped anything. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

In article <A10F0B82-2633-4B2E-B33D-(E-Mail Removed)>, Kathy Jacobs
wrote:
> Are you trying to use the Office Basic key to activate PPT? That won't work.
> Office Basic for 2003 didn't include PPT. If you want to add PPT, you need
> to purchase it separately.

[dopeslaps self]

Sorry Bevin, ignore my earlier post. Kathy's right.

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Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP
PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com
PPTools: www.pptools.com
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