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Activating Your Copy of Office
Setup Essentials
For most people, installing Office 2003 is ridiculously simple. Pop the CD in the drive,
enter a valid product key, choose the default installation options, and let the Setup program
go about its business. No rebooting is required, and in the case of an upgrade the installa-
tion process picks up all of your existing settings without any manual intervention.
➔ You can choose to make Setup more complicated if you want, as we explain in Appendix A, “Advanced
Setup Options,” p. 1209.
Two aspects of setup deserve special mention here. One is Office Product Activation, a con-
troversial anti-piracy technology ...