Key Code for Office Professional Plus 2007

[HelloDaly]

I have multiple questions here...

===Part I===
I recently purchased the 'MS Student Select Office 2003 Professional with an
Office Professional Plus 2007 license' through the vendor (e-academy.com) for
my university.

The media came with the product key for Office 2003 which will work fine but
I thought purchasing the 2007 license wouldalso give me the product key to
activate the trail version of Office 2007 that came preinstalled with Windows
Vista on my new laptop.

I have asked the vendor how I can obtain the key code for Office 2007 and
their response was that when the media for 2007 becomes available in April, I
will be able to purchase the media (the license I have already paid for) and
the license key will be included with the media.

So this sounds like I will not be able to use the full version of Office
2007 until April, when I can order the media which will then come with the
key code. Meanwhile, the number of uses I have with the trial version of
Office 2007 is dwindling.

1) I would really like to know if there is a way I can get the key code for
Office 2007 sooner than April since I already purchased the license.

===Part II===
Meanwhile, I am playing an on-line simulation game for one of my finance
classes that automatically launches in MS Excel 2007 and I only have 8 more
uses of Excel without entering the key code. I am not sure what will happen
when my uses are up--if the game will default to launching in Excel 2003 or
if I will be locked out at all which will not be funny because there are
several weeks left to go in the semester.

I tried to change the default programs and associated file types or protocol
with Excel but that didn't seem to work. It is most likely that I am doing
something wrong.

2) Is there another way to fix the association with Office 2007? I would
like everything to default to Office 2003.

===Part III===
If I can't get a key code to activate Office 2007, and changing the files
associated with Office 2003/2007 doesn't work, then...

3) can I just uninstall Office 2007 so I don't have to bother with any of
the problems mentioned above?

Then when the media along with the key code becomes available in (freakin'
bloody) April, I can purchase it and install Office 2007.

Thank you in advance for any advice or suggestions.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

The product key to activate your trial version of Office 2007 should be
somewhere in the paperwork that came with your new laptop.

 

[Og]

I 1) Your Vendor has provided you with a definitive answer to this
question.
II 2) What solution was offered by the Technical Support staff of the
on-line simulation?
..............No person in an MS Office peer-to-peer news group can provide
you with useful technical support for an unspecified 3-rd party application
and how it interacts over the Internet, or how to alter its interaction
with, any version of MS Office.

Steve

 

[HelloDaly]

I appreciate your reponses. At this point, I don't care to spend more money
on purchasing a key code to activate Office 2007.

I'll figure way way to get the on-line came not to launch in Excel 2007.

<b>Can someone answer whether I can go ahead and uninstall Office 2007
without problems later?</b> I read a post about repairing Office 2003 after
Office 2007 unintall and want to avoid future problems. (The difference is I
have Office 2003 CD)

 

[HelloDaly]

I have solved my own problem all through one link:
http://us1.trymicrosoftoffice.com/default.aspx

By requesting a product key, I can use Office 2007 for three months which
will eliminate all three of my problems

Part I 1) I will not need to purchase a product key because I will get the
media and key code in April 2007 (even though I already paid for the
useless-at-the-moment license).

Part II 2) I will not be in jeopardy of being locked out of my online game
because it launches in Excel 2007 by default and I only have 7 uses left now.

Part II 3) I will not need to uninstall Office 2007 because the messages
requesting me to enter in a key code and I only have X uses left is annoying.

PROBLEM SOLVED.