Bloody microsoft

[mycats]

When I got my new computer a few months ago I got a 60 day (or something) trial of Office. I knew they would then try and get me to buy it when that ran out but now it has not only can I not use 99% of the features I cant even copy/paste the documents I have on there!
I'm not amused. Is there anything I can do to get them?

[Lucy Thomas]

Did you seriously think that MS would allow you to continue to use Office after the trial? That's why it's called a trial.

The only way to retrieve your documents is to install a copy of MS Office. Also it's quite possible that your computer came installed with MS Works. If it did, you may be able to read your documents through that.

A last resort is to copy the documents to a drive and download them to another PC with Office if that is possible.

[rojash]

Download and install OpenOffice It will read and write MS Office documents, it's completely free, and a better product (IMHO, of course).

http://www.openoffice.org/

[mycats]

no I didnt think they would let me keep using it but I didnt realise that I wouldnt even be able to copy my documents.
if I had a copy of Office I wouldnt need the trial lol

I have now got openoffice but as I say I cant get any of my college work from the office bit grrr

[Ethel]

OpenOffice is great and I use it all the time.

However, as far as I know it is still not capable of handling Word 2007 files, which are a different format to earlier Office Word documents.

I will be overjoyed if somebody can correct me on this.

[kempie]

The upcoming full release of OpenOffice.org 3.0 (currently in Beta 2) will be capable of opening files created with Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.).

[rojash]

Ethel is right OpenOffice doesn't currently support Word2007 files. But you should be able to convert any files you've already created to an earlier Office format here:

http://www.zamzar.com/

[vehelpfulguy]

You can download a Word viewer from here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.asp x?********=3657CE88-7CFA-457A-9AEC-F4F827F20CA C&displaylang=en

You can view word documents but not change them.

Never used it so not sure if you can copy paste text from word, but it is worth a go.

[vehelpfulguy]

In my link above answerbank has censored out a word and replaced it with asterisks (it does not like the letter Y I D).

You replace the 7 asterisks with the letters

F A M I L Y I D

So select on the link, then in your browser overtype the asterisks with the 7 letters I have written above