[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Beth,

Actually, you can use an OEM edition CD as the qualifying product to install a retail edition upgrade. Outside of the U.S. there
are some issues that would make precluding that a problem, so the OEM products are accepted as upgrade qualifiers when installing
Office on another machine.

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"Beth Melton" wrote in message ...
You can't use an OEM version of Office as a qualifying product on another
computer. You noted, an OEM version is tied to the computer it is installed
on and the license cannot be transferred to another computer. The original
version and upgrade are considered a single product and cannot be separated.
So if the OEM license is dead it can't be used at all.

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Beth Melton
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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