Office 2003 did not come with Windows XP. It is not part of the OS. You
had an OEM version that your vendor bundled with Windows. You need to
reinstall it from the media supplied to you by the vendor.

"imani" wrote in message
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I originally had microsoft office standard 2003 on my computer which came
with XP professional. recently microsoft offered a trial version of
office
2007. which expired. when I went to go back and use the original
microsoft
standard 2003( which was not a trial version) it is now non functional.
What happened to the original office standard 2003 which has been working
fine for years. until ...!!!!!!
What can be done to recover this program