You were the one who did the "registry clean".

What part did Microsoft play in that operation?

How was the registry clean performed? Manually or through a third-party
utility?

If third-party, does it have a backup file so's you could restore?

Gord Dibben Excel MVP

On Sat, 1 Jan 2005 20:35:01 -0800, b166er
wrote:

I've had Office 2003 Pro installed on my machine for several months now.
Recently I did a registry clean and now wordf and excel are asking to do a
product activation again. For some reason word activated fine, but excel did
not. I'm not paying $35 just to get microsoft to fix something that
shouldn't have happend.

Any ideas on a free way that I can get my product activated by microsoft?

I bought office through a Microsoft-Campus agreement at my school.

thanks