Information from here: http://social.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/genuineoffice/thread/39cee7a1-b5f8-4c91-8223-c661e9361496/ How to troubleshoot problems that you may experience when you try to activate a 2007 Office product @: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919895, and http://support.microsoft.com/kb/903275/en-us for Office Suites 2003 and below. The links will provide resolutions supporting Office Suites. However if the issue persists I would recommend you contact Microsoft Office support at http://support.microsoft.com/gp/assistsupport and choosing your product to create a support incident. There are two methods for activating Office; telephone and the Internet which is the easier of the two methods. To activate the product by using the Internet, follow these steps: For Microsoft Office 2007, follow these steps: Start any office program. 2) In the Office Activation Wizard, click the "Activate by using Internet" option, and then click "Next". 3) Click "Submit" to send your information to the Microsoft licensing servers. NOTE: When your information is validated, the "Activation Complete" page appears. Then, you can use the Office programs. You will not have to activate Office in the future. 4) Click "Finish" Please follow the below guidance for telephone activation for your version of Office: 1) Start any Office program. 2) In the "Office Activation Wizard", click the "Activate by using the telephone" option, and then click Next 3) Read the "Microsoft Office Privacy Policy" page, and then click "Next". Note You are not required to read the Microsoft Office Privacy Policy to continue these steps in Microsoft Office 2007. A link to the Microsoft Office Privacy Policy is provided so that you can read it at any time. 4) In the "Select your location" list, select a country or region. Call the telephone number that is listed on line 2. The customer service agent will ask you for the installation ID and will give you a confirmation ID in return. Type the confirmation ID in the boxes provided. 5) Click "Next". 6) On the "Activation Complete" page, click "Finish".

The Mouse Training Company is providing all of their Microsoft Office training manuals available to download for free. The files are in PDF format. The Office 2010 materials are quick reference guides. For Office 2007, in addition to the quick reference guides, the Mouse Training Company has additionally made their complete training manuals available for download. Materials for earlier versions of MS Office area also available. The complete training materials provide both mouse and keyboard instructions for completing tasks. For example, the 158 page Word 2007 Advanced Training Manual, provides the following information on "Splitting a Table": Splitting A Table Sometimes you need to split a table between rows to add text in-between. To split a table in two at the current cursor position: Mouse i. Select the cell(s) you wish to split ii. Go to the MERGE group on the LAYOUT ribbon and click the SPLIT TABLE button. Or Keyboard i. Press CTRL SHIFT ENTER The PDF files are available for download from the link below. Hope this helps you in the future. Paddy.. Here is a link that might be useful: The PDF files are available here.

open office does work fine, I just open the 2003 doc then copy the content, open a 2007 docx, then paste. I suggest this for anyone having this problem. It takes over an hour to install open office, I guess a lot of people need it right now.

Thanks for the thoughts, I think it is not resource overload, and I'm using only the XP home firewall, pretty transparent I understand. I'm running on a recent Gateway Notebook, in this case and on a recent Dell Desk Top in the other, the DT has no problems. I will admit my Gateway does have some difficulties on Com1 (simulated via USB, of course). I'm still using dial-up and it uses Com1, as does my Palm Z22 sync connection. I can not run both at the same time for that reason. Further, and Gateway did send me a prepaid shipping carton to send the Notebook back for repair as the dial-up will establish only one connection per boot. When I hang up the phone line, I have to reboot to get it to work again. I'm about to go DSL here and decided not to send the Notebook in, loss of data and a lot of other concerns being top of my reason for living with the Com1/Dial-up problem. I suppose this could reflect back into my new MS Office problem The installation of MS Office was a purchase DVD. The Notebook did come with Office 2007 ready to install, but I uninstalled that some time back as I was using Open Office, need commercial use. So, Gateway believes the machine has enough resources to run Office 2007. I can take a look to see what's going on with the resources when in the stuck-state. As noted, Control/Alt/Del will not allow me to kill Word, for example, also I note Work knows it is in trouble and tries to send an error report to MS, I think it sometimes succeeds sometimes doesn't. The only way I can get Work (or PP, or Excel) to release is to hang up the Dial up. I may try a reinstall, but am reluctant as I have still to update Office via the Dial-up, about two hours of download time.