Is there an easy way to find out who is running Office 2000 and who is
running 2003 without going to each desk.

Howdy..you can use the window registry to understand what software is
installed on a machine.

On your local PC, hit Start->run and type "regedit" then OK.
BE CAREFUL. You have now opened the windows registry editor and could
damage your PC's operating system if you delete entries.
Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office and you will see
a bunch of sub folders, some of which will have numbers, 8.0, 9.0
etc....If you are running office 2003, you will see a folder call
11.0, if you are only running 2000 you will not see 11.0 but you will
see 9.0. If you see both (or others) then this suggests that office
was upgraded from 2000 to 2003.
What you should be able to see is that office 97 = 8.0, 2000 = 9.0,
off XP = 10.0 and 2003 = 11.0

Now, you can also view other PC's registries (go to file->connect
network registry in regedit) so if you only have a few to check you
can do this manually.

If you have lots to check you will have to create a script that checks
the entries for you..perl can do this via the Registry.pm module
(google it) and wsh can also do it.

If you are going to want to check this kind of thing entry, you might
want to investigate setting registry auditing for the value you are
interested in.

Hope this helps
R

Depending on your needs, you may want to check out the free trials of
software auditing tools that the BSA offers:

http://www.bsa.org/usa/antipiracy/Free-Software-Audit-Tools.cfm

They should handle the job but may be limited in the number of
computers you can use the tool with.