Office is not part of Windows XP.
Nor does it use the same key.
Purchase of Office retail cd or a disk provided by your pc manufacturer are the normal methods to obtain Office or Outlook and a 25 digit key for activation.

Is it possible that you lost or misplaced the Office CD ?

As far as interrogating the pc for the Office key, if not activated, its not present.

..winston

"Stephen930" wrote in message ...
: Well things are a little further on.
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: I do have Outlook on my laptop. It is as yet not active. When I try to do
: this, it asks for the Product key.
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: As this has been changed by Microsoft when the original version of XP was
: about to time expire, I do not have it as it was typed directly onto the page
: when I was given it.
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: How do I interrogate the computer to give up this info. a free download of
: Jellybean produced a key that didn't work which I can only presume was the
: original key prior to the input.
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: "Michael Santovec" wrote:
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: Outlook is part of Office (with Word, Excel, etc.). You have to buy it.
: It's not available for a free download.
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: If in doubt, go to control panel, Add/Remove Programs. Office will show
: up as Microsoft Office.
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: Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
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