If you were replying to me, you have some nerves! So what your'e good at
2007, cookies and milk for you! I dont need an air-head "tech" person who is
more of giving advice and opinions than she is with helping to solve
problems. That's what this forum is for, it's not a twitter! "OH, you should
have read the instructions"! Is this how you answer tech questions? If so,
ill make sure to NOT call you! And for the REAL TECH people who have real
solutions - Thanks for your help! Unintelllllllijentttt people like me must
read the instructions first. LOL!
:
You were given the option to upgrade or not. If you didn't read the
instructions, then you can't blame Microsoft. Sometimes you have to be
responsible for your own actions instead of expecting everyone else to dumb
everything down so you don't have to read or learn anything.
--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"
I have the exact same problem and question. What I found out after doing a
little bit of searching is that when a person installs the trial 2007,
they
are unaware that they have the opportunity to keep the office 2000 or have
it
removed when the 2007 is activated. This I did not know when I installed
the
2007 and after getting mad as hell that MS would do something that sneaky,
I
wanted to know more. I dont want to pay for the old version if I have to
replace the office suites anyway, it makes no sense. And I think that is
what
MS wanted to do. To give us no choice but to buy their stuff since their
trials hijacked our latest versions! In other words: Entrapment and
Crooks!
If that was not their plan they would have given us notice that our latest
versions will dissappear if we use the trial (in big bold letters-not fine
print)!
:
Why does everyone work from the position that I must have an illegal copy
of
Office. I think I did have booklets saying "Distribution with New PC".
Microsoft verified my Office 2000 before allowing the 60 day free trial,
so
they believe my copy legit.
The only positive idea here is to restore in "Safe" mode. How do I do
that?
In the Add/Remove list, I have "Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional"
165MB, and "Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Disc 2" 198MB. But I cannot find
these names or sizes with a search of C:\ but they might prove I own the
programs.
I am offered the option to Browse... when asked for the original discs,
but
I don't know where to browse to. Apparently having the source on the hard
drive is expected.
How do I find these?
:
I uninstalled my trial version of Office 2007 on both my machines. Now
I
cannot run Access or Word or Excel on either machine.
Both computers XP Home w/SP3. One machine Office 2002, the other 2000.
Trying to run on either machine gets "Preparing to Install".
Taking only the desktop for now, I then get "The feature you are trying
to
use is on a CD-ROM or other removable disk that is not available.
Insert
the 'Microsoft Office 2000 SR-1 Professional' disk and click OK."
The desktop is a PC clone, and the shop I bought it from did not supply
disks. They are now out of business, but the software has been
confirmed to
be genuine.
So I don't have any disks. I immediately tried a System Restore, but I
get
a message that my machine has not been changed, pick another restore
point.
I'm back 2 months, with updates from Microsoft, and it won't restore.
If I cancel install and try to run Access, I get a message "An error
occurred and this feature is no longer functioning properly. Would you
like
to repair this feature now?" A NO response gets "Selected collating
sequence
not supported by the operating system." Of course a YES response gets
me
back to the installer.
Any way to get my old Office programs working after trying Office 2007?
