"non-commercial use" in Office Standard Edition

H

Havenhill

Why does the titlebar indicate "non-commercial use"? I have Office 2007
standard edition (non-academic). Thanks.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Do you have Outlook as a part of your version?

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After furious head scratching, Havenhill asked:

| Why does the titlebar indicate "non-commercial use"? I have Office
| 2007 standard edition (non-academic). Thanks.
 
H

Havenhill

Thanks for your reply. I have the Standard edition (at least that's what I
paid for ad that's what it says when I click the "about" tab).

JoAnn Paules said:
Sounds like you have the Home and Student edition, which is for
non-commercial use only.

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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


Havenhill said:
Why does the titlebar indicate "non-commercial use"? I have Office 2007
standard edition (non-academic). Thanks.
 
J

JoAnn Paules

Since you have Outlook, you have Standard. Any chance you had a trial
version of the software on your computer before buying the key? If so, did
you delete it before installing the paid for version?

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



Havenhill said:
Thanks for your reply. I have the Standard edition (at least that's what I
paid for ad that's what it says when I click the "about" tab).

JoAnn Paules said:
Sounds like you have the Home and Student edition, which is for
non-commercial use only.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


Havenhill said:
Why does the titlebar indicate "non-commercial use"? I have Office 2007
standard edition (non-academic). Thanks.
 
H

Havenhill

Yes, it's possible I had a trial version on my new computer, but I wasn't
aware of it and I didn't access it, I bought Office Standard with my new
computer, brought it home, and installed Office on the machine.

Assuming that's the problem, what would be the appropriate action to take now?


JoAnn Paules said:
Since you have Outlook, you have Standard. Any chance you had a trial
version of the software on your computer before buying the key? If so, did
you delete it before installing the paid for version?

--

JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher

How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375



Havenhill said:
Thanks for your reply. I have the Standard edition (at least that's what I
paid for ad that's what it says when I click the "about" tab).

JoAnn Paules said:
Sounds like you have the Home and Student edition, which is for
non-commercial use only.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


Why does the titlebar indicate "non-commercial use"? I have Office 2007
standard edition (non-academic). Thanks.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Uninstall any Office programs on your computer, especially the trial, and then reinstall Office Standard.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, Havenhill asked:

| Yes, it's possible I had a trial version on my new computer, but I
| wasn't aware of it and I didn't access it, I bought Office Standard
| with my new computer, brought it home, and installed Office on the
| machine.
|
| Assuming that's the problem, what would be the appropriate action to
| take now?
|
|
| "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
|
|| Since you have Outlook, you have Standard. Any chance you had a trial
|| version of the software on your computer before buying the key? If
|| so, did you delete it before installing the paid for version?
||
|| --
||
|| JoAnn Paules
|| Microsoft MVP - Publisher
||
|| How to ask a question
|| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
||
||
||
|| ||| Thanks for your reply. I have the Standard edition (at least that's
||| what I paid for ad that's what it says when I click the "about"
||| tab).
|||
||| "JoAnn Paules" wrote:
|||
|||| Sounds like you have the Home and Student edition, which is for
|||| non-commercial use only.
||||
|||| --
|||| JoAnn Paules
|||| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
||||
|||| ~~~~~
|||| How to ask a question
|||| http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
||||
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|||| ||||| Why does the titlebar indicate "non-commercial use"? I have
||||| Office 2007 standard edition (non-academic). Thanks.
 
C

cundiffla

Good morning,

I too did have the same problem, what you need to do is UNINSTALL all
microsoft office programs, and install you purchase office. The computer has
the preloaded office for trial and it is set up for home and student version,
it accept all product key that is why you must uninstall all office. To be
sure it is uninstall look for the office logo in the uninstall control panel.
I did this and it work on mine computer.
 
J

Jeroen

Hi Milly,

I have seen multiple posts from you - so I guess you are a bit into this
non-commercial use subject.
I do have Office Professional with the same problem (except in Access) -
even the about-screens show me that it is professional; but still that
annoying title bar.

....OK so I have to do a re-install (I seem to remember that I uninstalled
the trial though).

But now for the actual question:
I understand all documents and spreadsheets etc will be retained unharmed on
my PC. Does that also count for all my settings (especially the setting up of
12 mailboxes in Outlook) - Outlook, which by the way also does not have the
annoying titlebar...

Thanking you in advance,
 
M

martha

JoAnn Paules wrote on 05/02/2007 09:05 ET :
Sounds like you have the Home and Student edition, which is for
non-commercial use only.

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

~~~~~
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375


"Havenhill" wrote in
message
Why does the titlebar indicate "non-commercial use"? I have Office
2007
standard edition (non-academic). Thanks.
I just bought Office Standard 2007 and a new computer at Staples. The
installed it for me and left the disc in the CD tray so I know they installe
the correct version. It says non-commercial use across the top of the window.
I called Staples, and they said I should have purchased the Small Busines
edition. Then they checked and said it was for non-commercial use also. Wha
does non-commercial use mean? I assumed that only applied to Home and Student
not Standard or Small Business.

Anyway to get this corrected or should I return the product and buy the cheape
version since they all say "non-commercial use."
 
L

LD55ZRA

martha said:
I just bought Office Standard 2007 and a new computer at Staples. They
installed it for me and left the disc in the CD tray so I know they installed
the correct version. It says non-commercial use across the top of the window.
I called Staples, and they said I should have purchased the Small Business
edition. Then they checked and said it was for non-commercial use also. What
does non-commercial use mean? I assumed that only applied to Home and Student,
not Standard or Small Business.

Anyway to get this corrected or should I return the product and buy the cheaper
version since they all say "non-commercial use."
You have been "Robbed". They sold you something they shouldn't have.
Complain to the manager of that shop and also make it absolutely clear
to him that you intend to report them to Microsoft and to the
Authorities for selling counterfeited software.

You have all the receipts to prove your case right?

hth
 
L

lhf113

I purchased the upgrade version of the standard office software. If I
uninstall the "home/student" version, then the upgrade will not install,
right? Is there any other way to have the program recognize that you have
upgraded from the student version to the full version so that it does not say
"for non-commercial use" at the top?
 
L

lhf113

Uninstalling the home/student version fixed the problem for me. The computer
then started to use the Standard Office version that I had installed and it
no longer says for non-commercial use.
 
L

LVTravel

lhf113 said:
Uninstalling the home/student version fixed the problem for me. The
computer
then started to use the Standard Office version that I had installed and
it
no longer says for non-commercial use.

Just for future reference (as you have already fixed the non-commercial
use), you don't have to have the qualification program installed to install
an upgrade version. What you do when the upgrade product says it can't find
the qualifying product is insert the installation media for the qualifying
product and point the installation media to that disk. When the qualifying
product has been accepted you are then instructed to put the upgrade media
back in the drive (unless you happen to have two media drives with one media
in each drive.)
 

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