I had Office XP Proofing tools, upgraded to Office 2003 and Proofing Tools
still worked OK, no problem.
Now I have a new PC with a freshly installed Office 2003, but my XP Proofing
Tools will not install. I would be happy to buy the Office 2003 Proofing
tools but they are discontinued. What are Office 2003 users expected to do?
Does anyone have any advice? I know this is affecting a growing number of
people in the translation industry.

Amazon has a couple for sale
http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Proo.../dp/B0000BZ54P
Might try eBay.

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"Duncan Collier" <Duncan Collier@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:EC8036C4-438A-4975-8983-4013DAEE4366@microsoft.com...
>I had Office XP Proofing tools, upgraded to Office 2003 and Proofing Tools
> still worked OK, no problem.
> Now I have a new PC with a freshly installed Office 2003, but my XP Proofing
> Tools will not install. I would be happy to buy the Office 2003 Proofing
> tools but they are discontinued. What are Office 2003 users expected to do?
> Does anyone have any advice? I know this is affecting a growing number of
> people in the translation industry.

Yep, true, but they won't ship to the UK. Anybody know a) of a third party
alternative, and b) what was going through MS's tiny brains when they decided
to discontinue?

I'm not anti-MS but there seems to be quite a nasty way of pushing us
towards 2007. If Office 2003 is still supported, why remove the multingual
capability?

"Mary Sauer" wrote:

> Amazon has a couple for sale
> http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Proo.../dp/B0000BZ54P
> Might try eBay.
>
> --
> Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
> http://office.microsoft.com/
> http://msauer.mvps.org/
> news://msnews.microsoft.com
>
> "Duncan Collier" <Duncan Collier@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EC8036C4-438A-4975-8983-4013DAEE4366@microsoft.com...
> >I had Office XP Proofing tools, upgraded to Office 2003 and Proofing Tools
> > still worked OK, no problem.
> > Now I have a new PC with a freshly installed Office 2003, but my XP Proofing
> > Tools will not install. I would be happy to buy the Office 2003 Proofing
> > tools but they are discontinued. What are Office 2003 users expected to do?
> > Does anyone have any advice? I know this is affecting a growing number of
> > people in the translation industry.
>
>
>

Have you tried Amazon UK?
http://s1.amazon.co.uk/exec/varzea/p...378444-7643963

A bit pricy
http://cgi.www.softwareparadise.co.u...0211#startspot

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http://msauer.mvps.org/
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"Duncan Collier" <DuncanCollier@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:804AC284-525F-4C12-93BC-B7FD4EF15D7F@microsoft.com...
> Yep, true, but they won't ship to the UK. Anybody know a) of a third party
> alternative, and b) what was going through MS's tiny brains when they decided
> to discontinue?
>
> I'm not anti-MS but there seems to be quite a nasty way of pushing us
> towards 2007. If Office 2003 is still supported, why remove the multingual
> capability?
>
> "Mary Sauer" wrote:
>
>> Amazon has a couple for sale
>> http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Proo.../dp/B0000BZ54P
>> Might try eBay.
>>
>> --
>> Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
>> http://office.microsoft.com/
>> http://msauer.mvps.org/
>> news://msnews.microsoft.com
>>
>> "Duncan Collier" <Duncan Collier@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:EC8036C4-438A-4975-8983-4013DAEE4366@microsoft.com...
>> >I had Office XP Proofing tools, upgraded to Office 2003 and Proofing Tools
>> > still worked OK, no problem.
>> > Now I have a new PC with a freshly installed Office 2003, but my XP
>> > Proofing
>> > Tools will not install. I would be happy to buy the Office 2003 Proofing
>> > tools but they are discontinued. What are Office 2003 users expected to do?
>> > Does anyone have any advice? I know this is affecting a growing number of
>> > people in the translation industry.
>>
>>
>>