Lost Office suite

[Guest melofellow]

I purchased an HP computer several years ago. It came with MS Office (Word,

Excel, PPT, Outlook) installed for a trial period. I purchased the product

before the end of the trial period.

Recently my hard drive crashed and I lost my Office Suite. I had a new hard

drive installed, but how do I get the programs back? There was never a CD

with the programs on them.

--

Livin'' the good life.

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

Did your purchase of Office go through HP or Microsoft ? When you

made the purchase did you print out the online receipt ? There should

have been a Product Key ( 25 characters in groups of 5 ) that was

sent to you to validate your Office install. That would have probably

been sent to you via email.

 

You'll need to contact whomever you made the purchase with and try

to locate your transaction. Beyond that you'll need to have them send

you a installation disk ( which may not be possible if the Office version

is as old as you state ).

 

 

"melofellow" <semajlem@yahoo.com> wrote in message

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>I purchased an HP computer several years ago. It came with MS Office (Word,

> Excel, PPT, Outlook) installed for a trial period. I purchased the product

> before the end of the trial period.

> Recently my hard drive crashed and I lost my Office Suite. I had a new

> hard

> drive installed, but how do I get the programs back? There was never a CD

> with the programs on them.

> --

> Livin'' the good life.

[Guest ANONYMOUS]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

If you bought the license key online then you should have the serials somewhere

in your emails unless you have deleted them. Assuming you have the serial

number somewhere in the emails then I suggest try to download the trial version

(this should be similar to the one you actually paid for - Home & Student,

small business etc. etc.).

 

Once you have done this and installed it on your system, try to insert your key

which you paid for and this should activate without any problems.

 

If this works, then I suggest either make a copy of the downloaded package on

to CD/DVD and also, write down the serial key with Permanent Marker on top your

media so that it doesn't get lost again.

 

Alternatively, you can contact MS to buy the media by paying a handling fee of

about $30. But this is only good IF YOU HAVE YOUR SERIAL NUMBER otherwise it

is futile contacting MS because they won't help you and most probably you will

start shouting at them!.

 

hth

 

 

melofellow wrote:

> I purchased an HP computer several years ago. It came with MS Office (Word,

> Excel, PPT, Outlook) installed for a trial period. I purchased the product

> before the end of the trial period.

> Recently my hard drive crashed and I lost my Office Suite. I had a new hard

> drive installed, but how do I get the programs back? There was never a CD

> with the programs on them.

> --

> Livin'' the good life.

[Guest Nonny]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:33:22 +0100, ANONYMOUS <ANONYMOUS@EXAMPLE.COM>

wrote:

>If you bought the license key online then you should have the serials somewhere

>in your emails unless you have deleted them.

 

Or unless they were on the old hard drive that was replaced <cough>

 

>Assuming you have the serial

>number somewhere in the emails then I suggest try to download the trial version

>(this should be similar to the one you actually paid for - Home & Student,

>small business etc. etc.).

>

>Once you have done this and installed it on your system, try to insert your key

>which you paid for and this should activate without any problems.

>

>If this works, then I suggest either make a copy of the downloaded package on

>to CD/DVD and also, write down the serial key with Permanent Marker on top your

>media so that it doesn't get lost again.

>

>Alternatively, you can contact MS to buy the media by paying a handling fee of

>about $30. But this is only good IF YOU HAVE YOUR SERIAL NUMBER otherwise it

>is futile contacting MS because they won't help you and most probably you will

>start shouting at them!.

>

>hth

>

>

>melofellow wrote:

>

>> I purchased an HP computer several years ago. It came with MS Office (Word,

>> Excel, PPT, Outlook) installed for a trial period. I purchased the product

>> before the end of the trial period.

>> Recently my hard drive crashed and I lost my Office Suite. I had a new hard

>> drive installed, but how do I get the programs back? There was never a CD

>> with the programs on them.

>> --

>> Livin'' the good life.

[Guest ANONYMOUS]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

 

 

Nonny wrote:

>On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:33:22 +0100, ANONYMOUS <ANONYMOUS@EXAMPLE.COM>

>wrote:

>

>

>

>>If you bought the license key online then you should have the serials somewhere

>>in your emails unless you have deleted them.

>>

>>

>

>Or unless they were on the old hard drive that was replaced <cough>

>

>

>

>

Point taken. I always keep my emails on Google (and download them as

well for off-line reading) . google, hotmail, yahoo, aim etc all give

you unlimited space to collect all the apam you can get in your inbox or

bulk folder. I have nearly 50,000 emails in temp folder which are all

spam but I keep them hoping that one day google will block my account

for storing lots of emails. this would alert spammers not to send me

anything because their emails will bounce!

[Guest Big Al]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

ANONYMOUS wrote:

>

>

> Nonny wrote:

>

>> On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:33:22 +0100, ANONYMOUS <ANONYMOUS@EXAMPLE.COM>

>> wrote:

>>

>>

>>

>>> If you bought the license key online then you should have the serials

>>> somewhere

>>> in your emails unless you have deleted them.

>>

>> Or unless they were on the old hard drive that was replaced <cough>

>>

>>

>>

>>

> Point taken. I always keep my emails on Google (and download them as

> well for off-line reading) . google, hotmail, yahoo, aim etc all give

> you unlimited space to collect all the apam you can get in your inbox or

> bulk folder. I have nearly 50,000 emails in temp folder which are all

> spam but I keep them hoping that one day google will block my account

> for storing lots of emails. this would alert spammers not to send me

> anything because their emails will bounce!

>

I always keep the mobo box and put all docs, receipts, cd's, floppies,

manuals etc in that box. When I build a new machine and move

hardware. Its not a paperless world here. I print those important

items and store them.

 

Of course this isn't helping melofellow.

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

It does HELP. Computer users never cease to amaze me at how

they can so carelessly pitch things like Product Keys, Install CDs

and other vital items.

 

I used to give customers a zippered CD pouch to put CDs into.

That was pointless because they then proceed to loose the packet

the disks are stored in.

 

Sometimes when these users turn up here looking for a "Magic Fix"

you want to send them to Detention Hall for being a Slacker.

('Back to the Future', - I think ).

 

"Big Al" <BigAl@nowhere.com> wrote in message

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> ANONYMOUS wrote:

>>

>>

>> Nonny wrote:

>>

>>> On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:33:22 +0100, ANONYMOUS <ANONYMOUS@EXAMPLE.COM>

>>> wrote:

>>>

>>>

>>>> If you bought the license key online then you should have the serials

>>>> somewhere

>>>> in your emails unless you have deleted them.

>>>

>>> Or unless they were on the old hard drive that was replaced <cough>

>>>

>>>

>>>

>> Point taken. I always keep my emails on Google (and download them as

>> well for off-line reading) . google, hotmail, yahoo, aim etc all give

>> you unlimited space to collect all the apam you can get in your inbox or

>> bulk folder. I have nearly 50,000 emails in temp folder which are all

>> spam but I keep them hoping that one day google will block my account for

>> storing lots of emails. this would alert spammers not to send me

>> anything because their emails will bounce!

>>

> I always keep the mobo box and put all docs, receipts, cd's, floppies,

> manuals etc in that box. When I build a new machine and move hardware.

> Its not a paperless world here. I print those important items and store

> them.

>

> Of course this isn't helping melofellow.

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

melofellow wrote:

> I purchased an HP computer several years ago. It came with MS Office

> (Word, Excel, PPT, Outlook) installed for a trial period. I purchased

> the product before the end of the trial period.

> Recently my hard drive crashed and I lost my Office Suite. I had a

> new hard drive installed, but how do I get the programs back? There

> was never a CD with the programs on them.

 

Contact Microsoft. You can purchase Office Ultimate 2007 for a bit over

$600. Lesser versions - with lesser capabilities (do not want) - can be had,

if you're a piker, for less money.

[Guest DL]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

Bouncing spam will not alert spammers since the majority will be mailing

from a compromised PC & with a junk return address. You might as well delete

your 50k of mails, its a complete waste of space

 

"ANONYMOUS" <ANONYMOUS@EXAMPLE.COM> wrote in message

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>

>

> Nonny wrote:

>

>>On Fri, 30 May 2008 20:33:22 +0100, ANONYMOUS <ANONYMOUS@EXAMPLE.COM>

>>wrote:

>>

>>

>>>If you bought the license key online then you should have the serials

>>>somewhere

>>>in your emails unless you have deleted them.

>>

>>Or unless they were on the old hard drive that was replaced <cough>

>>

>>

>>

> Point taken. I always keep my emails on Google (and download them as well

> for off-line reading) . google, hotmail, yahoo, aim etc all give you

> unlimited space to collect all the apam you can get in your inbox or bulk

> folder. I have nearly 50,000 emails in temp folder which are all spam but

> I keep them hoping that one day google will block my account for storing

> lots of emails. this would alert spammers not to send me anything because

> their emails will bounce!

>

[Guest DL]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

You can only contact MS if you can provide proof of ownership.

Office2003 is no longer avilable for legal download, except maybe on technet

 

"ANONYMOUS" <ANONYMOUS@EXAMPLE.COM> wrote in message

news:48405682.497F46A8@EXAMPLE.COM...

> If you bought the license key online then you should have the serials

> somewhere

> in your emails unless you have deleted them. Assuming you have the serial

> number somewhere in the emails then I suggest try to download the trial

> version

> (this should be similar to the one you actually paid for - Home & Student,

> small business etc. etc.).

>

> Once you have done this and installed it on your system, try to insert

> your key

> which you paid for and this should activate without any problems.

>

> If this works, then I suggest either make a copy of the downloaded package

> on

> to CD/DVD and also, write down the serial key with Permanent Marker on top

> your

> media so that it doesn't get lost again.

>

> Alternatively, you can contact MS to buy the media by paying a handling

> fee of

> about $30. But this is only good IF YOU HAVE YOUR SERIAL NUMBER otherwise

> it

> is futile contacting MS because they won't help you and most probably you

> will

> start shouting at them!.

>

> hth

>

>

> melofellow wrote:

>

>> I purchased an HP computer several years ago. It came with MS Office

>> (Word,

>> Excel, PPT, Outlook) installed for a trial period. I purchased the

>> product

>> before the end of the trial period.

>> Recently my hard drive crashed and I lost my Office Suite. I had a new

>> hard

>> drive installed, but how do I get the programs back? There was never a CD

>> with the programs on them.

>> --

>> Livin'' the good life.

>

[Guest ANONYMOUS]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

DL wrote:

> Bouncing spam will not alert spammers since the majority will be mailing

> from a compromised PC & with a junk return address. You might as well delete

> your 50k of mails, its a complete waste of space

>

 

This might be true but this emailer <<debbie.esposito@ace-immobilier.com> keep

sending me blank emails once every week. The same ISP is used to send me spam

messages about 1 every 7 minutes or so. In a day I get about 100 emails which

are nothing but rubbish about how I can elongate my private parts or how I can

buy Canadian Medical Products or something.

 

I am presuming that they are checking whether there is any point in sending

emails to my account: I deleted my email and replaced with xxxxxxx in the

following header:

 

X-Apparently-To: XXXXXXXX@googlemail.net via 217.146.188.115; Fri, 30 May 2008

20:59:53 +0000

X-YahooFilteredBulk: 88.235.198.16

X-Originating-IP: [88.235.198.16]

Return-Path: <debbie.esposito@ace-immobilier.com>

Authentication-Results: mta815.mail.ukl.yahoo.com from=; domainkeys=neutral (no

sig)

Received: from 88.235.198.16 (HELO localhost) (88.235.198.16) by Message-Id:

<200805278[6

Content-Length: 0

[Guest Bob Harris]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

An alternative is to download and install Open Office, which has many of the

functions of Microsoft Office and can read/write common MS Office formats.

Also, it is free.

 

http://www.openoffice.org/

 

Another alternative spreadsheet, but not entire office suite, is GNUMERIC.

It is also free:

 

http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/

 

"melofellow" <semajlem@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:4DA7DFD4-BF97-43B2-86AC-B3667C013FB9@microsoft.com...

>I purchased an HP computer several years ago. It came with MS Office (Word,

> Excel, PPT, Outlook) installed for a trial period. I purchased the product

> before the end of the trial period.

> Recently my hard drive crashed and I lost my Office Suite. I had a new

> hard

> drive installed, but how do I get the programs back? There was never a CD

> with the programs on them.

> --

> Livin'' the good life.

[Guest HeyBub]

Re: Lost Office suite

 

Bob Harris wrote:

> An alternative is to download and install Open Office, which has many

> of the functions of Microsoft Office and can read/write common MS

> Office formats. Also, it is free.

>

> http://www.openoffice.org/

>

> Another alternative spreadsheet, but not entire office suite, is

> GNUMERIC. It is also free:

 

So is a used blow-up doll.

 

While a vinyl woman may be adequate for some people, it's not the same

thing.