Installing Office Pro 2003 on XP Home

[waterbill]

Does anyone know about compatibility of XP Home with
Office Professional 2003?

My notebook computer came with XP Home, but I have Office
Pro 2003 and am trying to install it. The Office Pro
installation proceeds cleanly and finishes, but then when
I try to run any of the Office application (e.g., Word)
Windows XP Home takes me to an installation screen and
prompts me to enter my Office Standard 2003 Product Key.
And of course, when I enter the Product Key from my Office
Pro CD, XP Home comes back with a dialog box saying that's
not a valid Product Key. I seem to be unable to get the
Office Pro applications to run on XP Home.

Is this a fundamental incompatibility, such that I'd have
to either convert to XP Pro to run Office Pro or switch to
Office Standard to run on XP Home? Or is there a work-
around that will allow me to run my Office Pro software on
my XP Home operating system?

Thanks,
Water Bill

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

There are no incompatibility issues with Office 2003 and any of
the Windows XP operating systems. Evidently, you are not entering
the Product Key correctly or have the wrong one.

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| Does anyone know about compatibility of XP Home with
| Office Professional 2003?
|
| My notebook computer came with XP Home, but I have Office
| Pro 2003 and am trying to install it. The Office Pro
| installation proceeds cleanly and finishes, but then when
| I try to run any of the Office application (e.g., Word)
| Windows XP Home takes me to an installation screen and
| prompts me to enter my Office Standard 2003 Product Key.
| And of course, when I enter the Product Key from my Office
| Pro CD, XP Home comes back with a dialog box saying that's
| not a valid Product Key. I seem to be unable to get the
| Office Pro applications to run on XP Home.
|
| Is this a fundamental incompatibility, such that I'd have
| to either convert to XP Pro to run Office Pro or switch to
| Office Standard to run on XP Home? Or is there a work-
| around that will allow me to run my Office Pro software on
| my XP Home operating system?
|
| Thanks,
| Water Bill
|

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Office 2003 runs fine in WinXP Home. You probably have some other issues.
Are you sure its asking for the Office product key and not the Windows one?
Being prompted for the disk indicates that some components you are trying to
use are set to install on first use. I would insert the Office disk and do a
repair of the existing installation first.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Alex Nichol]

Does anyone know about compatibility of XP Home with
Office Professional 2003?

My notebook computer came with XP Home, but I have Office
Pro 2003 and am trying to install it. The Office Pro
installation proceeds cleanly and finishes, but then when
I try to run any of the Office application (e.g., Word)
Windows XP Home takes me to an installation screen and
prompts me to enter my Office Standard 2003 Product Key.

It will run fine. But the number used to register and activate Office
is not the Product Key used for installing it: it is a Product ID
number. Cancel that warning in Word; go to its Help - About Word and
the number needed is shown, to input in its Help - Activate Product