Office Test Drive expired after first day?!

[David Orleans]

I just purchased an IMAC G5 and installed the Microsoft Mac Office.
After installation, I went to try all the applications and they all
bark at me saying that the test drive has expired. I then get a link
to buy it. What happened? Is there a fix? Who should I contact?
Thanks, Dave, FL

 

[PhilD]

I just purchased an IMAC G5 and installed the Microsoft Mac Office.
After installation, I went to try all the applications and they all
bark at me saying that the test drive has expired. I then get a link
to buy it. What happened? Is there a fix? Who should I contact?
Thanks, Dave, FL

Does Test Drive not come pre-installed? By the looks of things from
the info you've given, you've installed the "proper" version of Office
over the top. You are supposed to remove the test version first.

If this is the case and I haven't misunderstood you, remove all Office
applications (there's a special tool for this in the file directory),
then reinstall the full version.

On the other hand, if you only want the trial version, then remove the
Office applications as before, and download the trial from
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ (if you can find it: I can't see it at
the moment).

Hope this helps.

PhilD

 

[lsmith]

I, on the other hand, got the "Test Drive has expired" message the
first time I tried to launch Excel, and have not installed any version
of Office over the Test Drive. Is there a way out of that?

Larry