Re: Office trial has expired? How to purchase?

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The trial is preinstalled by the computer manufacturer. You can order the
trial CD but I'd be willing to bet that's not what your friend did.

Tell her to buy Office from her favorite software retailer or even
Amazon.com. Tell your friend to back up all of her Office files that she
created with the trial version. (This is just a little insurance just in
case.) Then **PLEASE** have her uninstall the trial version. Reboot and
install the full retail version. There have been a lot of issues with that
blasted trial version. I wish they'd dump it. People don't see TRIAL version
and then they post in here about what a crappy program because it's locked
up. They seem to think that Office is free. Or the trial version won't take
the full version's key. And on and on and on.....

(Okay, I'll get off my soapbox now.)

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Susan" <dsnsacree@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks, I did not see what came with computer so I was wondering if trial
cd came with it or this was online thing? I do not know how trial cds are
marketed. I totally agree with you about cds.

"JoAnn Paules [MVP]" <jl_paules@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know it can be purchased online, etc but I'm old school - I want a disk
in my hand when I hand over my hard-earned money. I don't want to find out
that my back-up CD doesn't have the files I need to do whatever. And
Murphy's Law says that that *will* happen to me and it will happen when
I'm 20 minutes from a critical deadline.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



"Susan" <dsnsacree@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Friend has laptop that organization purchased and it came with trial
software installed. The Office 2003 Professional software trial has
expired on Jan. 31, 2003. It mentions that if she wants to continue
that she must enter the 25 digit product code.

I understand purchasing cd from retail and looking at the envelope which
has the key, but am not sure about trial software installed. Was the
friend supposed to have the product key somewhere? Are you supposed to
be able to enter the product key and pay online to purchase now?

Thanks for information.
Susan








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