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For activation, the system gives you the number, for "this 'n that", you can call the help line for $49.

JAM wrote:
Hope this is not off topic but several times I noted that worst case situation would be to call MS for activation or this 'n that. Where on the ms website do you find a number to call for such a question?
Thanks

"Val" wrote:


You are entitled to have installations on up to three machines, concurrently. It's not a case of you get to install just three times.

In a worst case situation, at activation you will have to call MS and explain the situation, they will give you magic numbers to continue.

You don't lose anything.


"CGB" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%234Mb4B2HIHA.1204@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Bought Office Student and Teacher Edition 2003. It's on my desktop. I then
bought a laptop. It's on my laptop also, understanding that my one copy can
legally be on a total of 3 machines of mine.

I need to send the laptop back to factory for repair. They say any and all
the stuff on the hard drive could be lost (problem is in the video
monitor....something seems loose!). I would prefer to leave Office on the
hard drive....I can't imagine that they would need to disturb the HD.
Personal data, etc. has been removed but program, as well as some other
stuff, is still on it.

Question is: If they destroy the disk/computer and replace it with a new
one and I have to reinstall Office 2003 from my original disk, it should be
OK. However, will this somehow be tracked as a 3rd installation and end
anymore installations on any machines for me?

If I were to uninstall it from the laptop before sending it in (ugh) would
it somehow be tracked by MS so that when I went to reinstall it somewhere,
it would know that the 2nd of 3 allowed installations was being sort of
"transferred" to a 2nd machine and it is not the 3rd machine to concurrently
hold the program.

Thanks. Hope my question isn't too obtuse....it's actually simple :)

Chet





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