Premature Test Drive

[sue.chastain]

I am a new MacBook Pro owner. My Mac came with the Office 2004 Test
Drive, but I was holding off on installing it until after the holidays
when I would have more time to evaluate it. Today I received a license
file for another application which I was instructed to double-click to
install. Unfortunately when I double clicked this file, it launched
Microsoft Excel and started my 30-day test drive earlier than I
intended to. Is there any way to back out of this? If I Remove Office
will it let me reinstall with the 30-days trial at another time?

 

[Clive Huggan]

Hello Sue,

One way would be to re-set your MacBook Pro's date-time setting (in System
Preferences) when you want to use it; probably best to set it to the same
month+day, but 12 months beforehand.

Clive Huggan
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[sue.chastain]

But wouldn't that mess up any other programs that rely on the date?

 

[PhilD]

But wouldn't that mess up any other programs that rely on the date?

Possibly, but if you stop all programs, reset the date and play with
Test Drive, then stop Test Drive and reset the date again before doing
anything else, then I don't see any cause for worry.

PhilD

 

[Diane Ross]

Possibly, but if you stop all programs, reset the date and play with
Test Drive, then stop Test Drive and reset the date again before doing
anything else, then I don't see any cause for worry.

Hopefully, the following will save your some problems by removing the Test
Drive incorrectly.

If you purchase Office, you must first remove the Office Test Drive from
your computer. Use "Remove Office". Remove Office is located in the Office
2004 folder --> Additional Tools --> Remove Office and on the CD-ROM.

To remove the Test Drive, on the Results screen, click the Microsoft Office
2004 (including Test Drive) check box to select the Test Drive, and then
click Continue. In the Choose which components to remove screen, click the
Remove the Microsoft Office 2004 Test Drive folder check box to remove the
Test Drive, and then click Continue.

Remove Office can rescue files that you created in Office programs ‹ such
as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint documents and
templates ‹ by moving them to a Rescued Items folder that it creates on
your desktop. However, if your Microsoft Office folders contain other types
of documents that you want to save, you should move them elsewhere before
starting Remove Office. If you forget to do this, you can find the files in
the Trash.

Note: Your Entourage data stored in your Microsoft User Data folder will not
be removed.


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