I had to rebuild my XP home system, I can not activate Word 2002 on the phone
cuz it says have the activation wizard open - but there isn't one, when I
called last night, just kept hearing "I don't understand" arrrgghhhh!
Opening "help, activate" does not do anything - no wizard, no options to
chose Internet or Phone activation - I am losing what's left of my mind!!!

So, I had old Office 97 on the machine, uninstalled that, went back to a
week old restore point, reinstalled Word 2002 from the MS Works 2002 CDs that
came with my Dell and NO activation wizard. Is the activation wizard built
into Works/Word?
How do get it to start?

I even tried to find a "opa11.dat" file (or any op*.dat file) to try to
delete like it says for Office 2003 activation trouble.

My XP home is activated, did that again and it's all set - is there
something lurking in the registry that prevents the activation wizard from
running?

Appreciate any other suggestions here, I'd really like to be able to run a
newer version of Word!

(I am out of work and cannot afford to call Dell or Microsoft - and wow,
hope I don't have to rebuild this machine again!!)

Thanks