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by triathlete1981

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i'm using a valid license key for ms office 2003. i activated the product and checked that the product was activated by opening any of the office programs, clicking the About menu, and choosing Activate Product.

The response after doing this is that the product has already been activated.

What my problem is is that any time the user opens any office app (outlook, excel, word), she gets prompted to print/accept/decline the microsoft end-user license agreement.

Any one know an answer to this?

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by triathlete1981

has been going on for a month, the user tells me. she always presses accept, but it keeps coming back.

by charliespencer

I've seen this if the user isn't a member of a local group with the authority to accept the license. Usually Power User is good enough, but try this:

Add the user to the local Administrators group.

Have her log on, start an Office app, and accept the license, and close the app.

Have her log off, then remove her from the Admin group.

Have her log back on, start an Office app, and see if the prompt returns.

by delbertpgh

If you've got a bootleg copy of Office 2003, using a key taken from somebody else's legal copy, you would get a message like this.

Or, if somebody took it home and installed it on their home PC before you mounted it at the office, you'd get this.

by triathlete1981

isn't using the same license. of that i'm sure. we purchased about 30 copies of mc office 2003 and the one i used to install on her machine was newly wrapped. you can't see the license if it's not unwrapped b/c it's inside the packaging.

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