Outlook Activation Issue

[Darryl A. J. Staflund]

Hi there,

I have an activation issue with Outlook. I recently purchased and installed
Office 2003 Professional upgrade on a computer that had Office 2003 Standard
trial. All applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Access)
with the exception of Outlook activated without problem as Professional
versions of the software. Outlook does not activate, however, because it's
listed as being a Standard trial version and hence won't take the
Professional product key.

Is there an easy way I can activate Outlook without having to reinstall
everything?

Thanks,
Darryl

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

When you install Office, it installs ALL programs with the one Office key.
Once you open ANY Office program and activate the product, it is activated
for all of Office. There is no such thing as having to activate each
program separately.

You are leaving out some very important details.

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| Hi there,
|
| I have an activation issue with Outlook. I recently purchased and
installed
| Office 2003 Professional upgrade on a computer that had Office 2003
Standard
| trial. All applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Access)
| with the exception of Outlook activated without problem as Professional
| versions of the software. Outlook does not activate, however, because
it's
| listed as being a Standard trial version and hence won't take the
| Professional product key.
|
| Is there an easy way I can activate Outlook without having to reinstall
| everything?
|
| Thanks,
| Darryl
|
|

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

did you try using detect and repair? you may want to uninstall outlook from
windows control panel, add/remove programs and do a detect and repair or a
reinstall of the suite.

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[Darryl A. J. Staflund]

Hi there,

I got things working. It seems that the trial version was still installed
(NB: I didn't bother to look in the Add/RemovePrograms control panel
because I thought the Professional install would delete the the trial
version automatically like most upgrade apps do) and that the Outlook
shortcut in the start menu still pointed to it (although the icons of the
other apps pointed to the professional version.) Once I uninstalled the
trial version, I ran Outlook using the shortcut and everything worked fine.

Sorry for the confusion and thanks for your help.

Darryl