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| Thread ID: 112096 | 2010-08-23 23:08:00 | Microsoft Office 2007- 60 day free trial | Dadzka (6620) | Press F1 |
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| 1131094 | 2010-08-24 05:32:00 | Just been mucking about with the trial activation -- not that I actually need it. If you open the activation,look down the bottom left hand corner, theres a link to get a trial key for Office 2007 - it checks for a certain patch, which you may have to install. The link to the patch is there - Then once installed, click on continue, enter your email address and up pops a 25 digit key. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1131095 | 2010-08-26 04:47:00 | Office trial installs alot of other 'crap' associated with Outlook Business contact manager'. SQL etc. Its just a PITA to uninstall to install the purchased 2010. In previous version's of outlook I have seen MS updates(Office SP's) autoinstalling the then asking for the Office CD to be inserted . No CD(lost etc) & you are left with a mess to sort out. Not sure if this could happen with the bundled pre-installed office. Often the product key quickly gets lost after a online purchase, making re-install particularly tricky, especially after a HD failure. You are better off buying a retail/OEM office |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1131096 | 2010-08-26 05:48:00 | When installing Office you can select what items to install. You select custom and sort them out. You dont need the Office CD after its been installed. Earlier versions ( 2003 comes to mind) would ask for the CD - 2007 & 2010 actually put the complete package on the PC and any repairs / features are done from that - No CD/DVD required. Losing the Key ?? that's being careless -- its easy enough to store it someplace safe. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1131097 | 2010-08-26 11:59:00 | Great when the HDD fails! | PENTIUM (426) | ||
| 1131098 | 2010-08-26 21:03:00 | If a hard drive fails, you can always download a Trial Version (office.microsoft.com) of the one that you have the key for, and simply use that. Kind of helps if a person does backups to another source and saves the purchased key as well. :) |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1131099 | 2010-08-27 01:22:00 | Losing the Key ?? that's being careless -- its easy enough to store it someplace safe. Happens all the time. No cure for stupid (Lazy ??) software/OS reloads I do that require a online purchased key for Office/Av etc: 50% of the time this key is lost when I need it for a clients PC Often enough customers cant keep their install/software CD's from getting lost. I have to remind them its Thousand's of $$ worth of software. Only ever seen 2 companies put the disks in the safe. |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1131100 | 2010-08-27 03:30:00 | Just go and get OpenOffice! It's free and it does the job. No need to use some ancient artifact. :) |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1131101 | 2010-08-27 11:36:00 | I would recommend OpenOffice too. I certainly wouldn't install anything older than Office 97 on anything XP or newer. (It does seem to run on XP but it will hijack a lot of things such as image viewer) |
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