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January 13th 09, 08:50 PM
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"Invalid character" in activation attempt?
MS certainly makes it difficult to register!!! I bought a copy of Office
2007 Home and Student Edition today at a local Staples. I finally got it installed and then went to activate it. I entered what I THINK is the Product ID number. It is in the following general form: xxxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx Xxx-xxxxx (the capital "X" is really the character uppercase letter X) When I first tried to enter the character (which appears to be the numeral "1") in the second spot of the third field, I got an error message that this was an invalid character. I backed out and tried again. This time I got the same message when I tried to enter the first character (which looks like the numeral "0") in the FIRST spot of the third field!!! I did a search for help and am informed that the product ID number should be in the following form: (these are NOT my number) 12345-xxx-765432198765 !!!! Has anyone else had this problem? 
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January 13th 09, 08:59 PM
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"Invalid character" in activation attempt?
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January 13th 09, 09:06 PM
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"Invalid character" in activation attempt?
"terca novie" wrote in message ... also make sure you are typing in the correct language (enlgish) make sure you rub da baboon with da lamb chop
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January 13th 09, 09:24 PM
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"Invalid character" in activation attempt?
I'm afraid that what you think is a valid license key, is not.
The valid license key is 5 groups of 5 alphanumerics separated by dashes, ie 25 characters (numbers and letters). There is no nuber zero or letter O (oscar) and no number one and letter I (India) in a license key. "Jim Vaught" Jim wrote in message ... MS certainly makes it difficult to register!!! I bought a copy of Office 2007 Home and Student Edition today at a local Staples. I finally got it installed and then went to activate it. I entered what I THINK is the Product ID number. It is in the following general form: xxxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx Xxx-xxxxx (the capital "X" is really the character uppercase letter X) When I first tried to enter the character (which appears to be the numeral "1") in the second spot of the third field, I got an error message that this was an invalid character. I backed out and tried again. This time I got the same message when I tried to enter the first character (which looks like the numeral "0") in the FIRST spot of the third field!!! I did a search for help and am informed that the product ID number should be in the following form: (these are NOT my number) 12345-xxx-765432198765 !!!! Has anyone else had this problem?
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January 13th 09, 09:31 PM
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"Invalid character" in activation attempt?
the product key and product number are 2 different things.
the key should be on the box or case and is in the format that the activation box asks for. like 9234a-5678b-c9234-b5678-ab5cd "Jim Vaught" Jim wrote in message ... MS certainly makes it difficult to register!!! I bought a copy of Office 2007 Home and Student Edition today at a local Staples. I finally got it installed and then went to activate it. I entered what I THINK is the Product ID number. It is in the following general form: xxxxx-xxx-xxx-xxx Xxx-xxxxx (the capital "X" is really the character uppercase letter X) When I first tried to enter the character (which appears to be the numeral "1") in the second spot of the third field, I got an error message that this was an invalid character. I backed out and tried again. This time I got the same message when I tried to enter the first character (which looks like the numeral "0") in the FIRST spot of the third field!!! I did a search for help and am informed that the product ID number should be in the following form: (these are NOT my number) 12345-xxx-765432198765 !!!! Has anyone else had this problem?
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