I don't understand why anybody would migrate to Office '07. Office '03 is a
better product. MSoft even realizes that there is a huge legacy base of '03
users that will not want to move up to '07, and there will be '07 users that
will not save their work in an '03 format, so MSoft has a patch that lets
'03 users open '07 files.




"Donna Medlam" Donna wrote in message
...
I will add to this thread because my situation seems to be similar in some
aspects. I had Office 2003 on my pc but had never activated 2007. I
recently
tried to activate it but it kept telling me it was completely installed.
So I
went on line to download another trial version - same thing. Now I can't
uninstall either version from my pc. It says something is missing or
Windows
will search for a solution that it can't uninstall. Any idea what's going
on?
I just spent over a hundred bucks for Office 2007 and it won't load
either.

"Jeff Strickland" wrote:


"matt" wrote in message
...

I have just installed Ofice 2003 professional ed on my new laptop. Now
when I
open any of the programs I get the messgae: 'Office application version
does
not match' When I click ok the program works, but is just annoying! How
do
I
remove this message?


What is happening is, you did not uninstall Office '07 first -- the trial
version comes pre-loaded and you have to get rid of it even if you don't
activate it. You have to get rid of the Activator too.

Because you left it there, the icon you click is expecting to find DLL
files
for '07 but is finding them of '03 instead. Uninstall Office '07 and the
Activator utility, then reinstall Office '03 if it does not run properly.