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Cannot activate Office 2007 Ultimate
"Steve" <sjtnet[ at ]hotmail.com> 3/17/2007 3:23:37 PM
HI, I've just installed Office 2007 Ultimate. This is the premium product,
is totally legal and not any kind of Beta or "early release" version.

I had previously used Office 2000 and I chose the "Upgrade" installation
option and opted to "keep all previous versions".

Now I have several problems / issues.

1) Everytime I start Word 2007, it prompts me to "activate". I try to
activate over the internet (as recommended). I select "Next" and after less
than 1 second, it promptly reports that "A communications error has
occurred. Your request cannot proceed at this time. Please try again in a
few minutes.". I started out with 24 attempts and I am now down to 8. Please
help!

2) I cannot get Word 2007 to print. It will "Print Preview" just fine but
when I try to print, my printer spits out a blank page. Since Office 2007
installation, I now cannot even print using Notepad. I can however, print a
printer test page.

3) I now cannot get Word 2000 to start. When I try, I get "Please wait while
Windows configures Office 2000 Premium", a brief progress bar and then a
white screen and it goes in to a "Program not responding" state in Task
Manager.

Any help on any of these issues would be greatly appreciated.

Steve


RE: Cannot activate Office 2007 Ultimate
CG. 3/17/2007 7:03:00 PM
I'm having the same activation problem. When trying by phone, it says the
number is no longer available. I'm using 2007 Home and Student.

"Steve" wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> HI, I've just installed Office 2007 Ultimate. This is the premium product,
> is totally legal and not any kind of Beta or "early release" version.
>
> I had previously used Office 2000 and I chose the "Upgrade" installation
> option and opted to "keep all previous versions".
>
> Now I have several problems / issues.
>
> 1) Everytime I start Word 2007, it prompts me to "activate". I try to
> activate over the internet (as recommended). I select "Next" and after less
> than 1 second, it promptly reports that "A communications error has
> occurred. Your request cannot proceed at this time. Please try again in a
> few minutes.". I started out with 24 attempts and I am now down to 8. Please
> help!
>
> 2) I cannot get Word 2007 to print. It will "Print Preview" just fine but
> when I try to print, my printer spits out a blank page. Since Office 2007
> installation, I now cannot even print using Notepad. I can however, print a
> printer test page.
>
> 3) I now cannot get Word 2000 to start. When I try, I get "Please wait while
> Windows configures Office 2000 Premium", a brief progress bar and then a
> white screen and it goes in to a "Program not responding" state in Task
> Manager.
>
> Any help on any of these issues would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Steve
>
>
>

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