I bought my PC from Dell & the engineer installed Office XP Home Editiion.
All was well for a while then the PC got blitzed my a virus off the internet
or something making the whole PC inoperable. Over the phone with Dells
assistance, I got the PC working again re-installing Windows etc but I lost a
lot of Software including Office XP Home Edition. I have moved home whilst
this happened and cannot find the CD nor a license/product key.
Microsoft (or Dell?) will have records of my purchase won't they? I've paid
for Office once - surely I should be able to obtain a licence key to download
it online.
I downloaded a free 3 month trial for Office 2003, but when that expired I
can only read files.
Please help - I miss my Word and PowerPoint. *<Sob>*

If the very nice man at Dell loaded Office XP for you, then presumably you
paid Dell for it, not Microsoft.. so ask the very nice man at Dell for
help..


"xxxyorks" <xxxyorks@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D85BDA9D-00CA-41D4-B686-EA391C526B0C@microsoft.com...
>I bought my PC from Dell & the engineer installed Office XP Home Editiion.
> All was well for a while then the PC got blitzed my a virus off the
> internet
> or something making the whole PC inoperable. Over the phone with Dells
> assistance, I got the PC working again re-installing Windows etc but I
> lost a
> lot of Software including Office XP Home Edition. I have moved home
> whilst
> this happened and cannot find the CD nor a license/product key.
> Microsoft (or Dell?) will have records of my purchase won't they? I've
> paid
> for Office once - surely I should be able to obtain a licence key to
> download
> it online.
> I downloaded a free 3 month trial for Office 2003, but when that expired I
> can only read files.
> Please help - I miss my Word and PowerPoint. *<Sob>*

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MS MVP Windows Shell/User
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