Windows 7 and MS Office 2003

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Anyone experience issues with Windows 7 RC and MS Office 2003?
I have installed my copy of Office, but every time I open any of the applications, it prompts me to accept the EUL agreement. I have already done it, but the message persists.

I also noticed that in MS Excel it does not pick up the system default decimal settings. By unchekking the function in Excel, it still doesn't allow me to change in MS Office the numerical decimal settings.

Could this be as a result of Windows 7 being in RC status?
 
Office 2003 works fine on my Windows 7 setup.
 
Bikerza said:
Anyone experience issues with Windows 7 RC and MS Office 2003?
I have installed my copy of Office, but every time I open any of the applications, it prompts me to accept the EUL agreement. I have already done it, but the message persists.

I also noticed that in MS Excel it does not pick up the system default decimal settings. By unchekking the function in Excel, it still doesn't allow me to change in MS Office the numerical decimal settings.

Could this be as a result of Windows 7 being in RC status?
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Have u tried changing the compatibility setting to run the installer in XP ?? usally solves the problems,
 
This is weird. I have my laptop running on Windows 7 64-bit and my rig at home windows 7 32-bit. Installed my MS Office on both and when it asked me to validate, I did. My home system also try to apply Windows 7 patches to Office, but it doesn't wanna install these updates. This is interesting. I'll need to dig deeper.

Thx for your input.
 
Bikerza said:
This is weird. I have my laptop running on Windows 7 64-bit and my rig at home windows 7 32-bit. Installed my MS Office on both and when it asked me to validate, I did. My home system also try to apply Windows 7 patches to Office, but it doesn't wanna install these updates. This is interesting. I'll need to dig deeper.

Thx for your input.
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Does your license allow two installations?
 
I had it installed before on both my laptop and PC both on Win XP. Laptop since got stolen, so I re-installed it on the new one and PC at some point had hard drive failure, also reinstalled it on there.

Maybe MS doesn't like it when stuff get stolen and re-installed? Also sure I read in the license of my Office version that I can install it on 2 machines.
 
Bikerza said:
I had it installed before on both my laptop and PC both on Win XP. Laptop since got stolen, so I re-installed it on the new one and PC at some point had hard drive failure, also reinstalled it on there.

Maybe MS doesn't like it when stuff get stolen and re-installed? Also sure I read in the license of my Office version that I can install it on 2 machines.
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They don't like it at all! If you have an OEM license then it lives and dies on that machine. If it gets stolen, then the office goes with it.

You are almost correct about the two installations. You can install Office on two machines, one desktop and a laptop; but only for your own personal use i.e. you can either use the laptop or desktop, but not both together. If one was for your kids and one for you, then you would need two licenses....
 
It was not OEM license. I bought the software separate - got the CD's for it. And it was for personal use.
Not a train smash, was planning to buy Office 2007 anyway.
 
Got sorted.

"ultimately i found this to work for my computer, whether this works for you, and the extent to which you try this is all at your own risk:

go to C:program files\microsoft office\OFFICE11 then select one of the MS apps such as Excel or Word and right click to run as administrator. this will open the app and the EULA pop up screen - accept it. exit the app then re-access an MS app - annoying pop up should be gone. hope this helps"
 
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