Office standard key for home student trial?

[Andi24]

We recently purchased a netbook, and we would like to put our Office standard
2007 on it. The salesman told us we could just input the product key and it
would unlock it on the netbook. Unfortunately our program is Office
standard and the trial is for Office Home and Student. Since Standard has
more than Home and Student I would think it would unlock it but it isnt. Any
suggestions? We just bought office and we don't want to buy another one.
Since the netbook doesn't have a CD drive how can we install Office without
buying it again.

 

[LD55ZRA]

Andi24,

You don't have to buy another Office Package but you may have to buy an
external CD/DVD drive that can be connected via your USB port and this will
allow you to install your package from the CD (I am assuming you have a CD
for Office Standard and serial number for it).

Also, if you have another PC or Laptop with CD drive, then you could copy
the entire contents of the CD on to a flash drive (some call it pen drive)
that can be connected via USB port.

The third alternative is to create a mini network such that CD on another
machine can be read by your Netbook. I don't recommend this approach
because you may have to fiddle with firewall and file permissions and this
could render your system prone to attacks if you forget to put everything
back to normal.

hth

 

[Peter Foldes]

Andi

You need to uninstall the Trial version along with the Activation Assistant and then
install your Office Standard