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[StickEGreenleaf]

My girlfriend recently got her father's labtop and as it turns out, he had a pirated copy of Office on his computer. My girlfriend, not wanting to make an enemy with Bill Gates, bought the student copy of Office.

My question is: Is installing Office over the pirated copy as easy as sticking in the disks? Or do I have uninstall the pirated copy first? And if so, how do I do this?

Thanks for your help, PCMechers.

[Ob1]

uninstall the pirated copy first
go to the control panel, add/remove programs and uninstall it from there, then stick her student copy into the drive and install the student version of office

[glc]

DO note that Office 2003 requires Windows 2000 or XP - it will NOT install on 9x/ME.