get old programs back!

[mike909]

i recently downloaded the trial for office 2007 and decided it was not for
me. By downloading the trial it deleted my old microsoft word etc. and my
trial has expired. How can i get my old programs back?

 

[macropod]

Hi Mike,

All you need to do is to uninstall Office 2007, then re-install the older versions from the CDs they came on.

Note: The Office 2007 install gives the option to retain the previous version. Evidently you chose not to.

 

[Mark Levitski]

I was about to scream at MS Office2007 also, but in the end after a dozen
tricks it now looks exactly as Office2003.

You need to explore and turn off stupidities that office2007 enables by
default, you can hide that awful ribbon and use Office2003 shortcuts, and
black background, and change Selected text color back to blue as it wa sin
office2003, etc, etc, you can also by default save all docs in Word97-2003
format and avoid docx, etc.

Unlike Vista which is garbage, Office2007 is actaullay a good MS product.
You can see me blasting Microsoft on another Newsgourps (VISTA), but Office
is not bad.
You need to get used to the new interface and turn off new features which MS
thinks are "useful".

 

[macropod]

Hi Mark,

It's misleading to suggest hiding the ribbon and turning off other Office '07 features will make it look just like Office '03 -
unless you ran Office '03 without any toolbars. Office '07 doesn't have Office '03-style toolbars and getting something like them
requires installing a 3rd-party product.