# MS Office won't install

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-office-wont-install/313838
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 23, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-office-wont-install/313838 "2005-07-23T20:24:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-office-wont-install/313838/1 "2005-07-23T20:24:30Z")

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I have been given a laptop that seems to contain MS office 2003, but it asks for a key code and I do not have it. No problem. I have previously purchased MS office 97 and ms office 2000 premium.

Office 97 won’t even start to load.  
Office 2003 premium requests my key code, which I give it, and then starts to load but produces an error message:

Error 1305

D:\Pfiles\Msoffice\acwzdat.mdt

I have an hp laptop and am running windows XP Home. I have previously installed these versions on other XP machines. Why won’t it let me now, and how do I go about fixing it?

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### Author: ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-office-wont-install/313838/2 "2005-07-23T20:42:43Z")

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You’ll probably have to completely uninstall the 2003 version. I don’t think you can install an older version over a newer one.

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### Author: ![dauerbach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c2a13f/32.png) [@dauerbach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dauerbach)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2005, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-office-wont-install/313838/3 "2005-07-24T01:42:17Z")

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I found out the copy of Office 2000 was bad, although the disc looked pretty good to me. I still don’t know why Office 97 won’t load, although I did uninstall Office 2003.

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### Author: ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2005, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ms-office-wont-install/313838/4 "2005-07-24T03:49:35Z")

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Some laps have Office preloaded and good for 3 months. You got to buy it after it expires.