[Solved] Office Home and Student 2010 Free Trial Problems Please Help

[H20]

Hi, I downloaded the Microsoft Office Home and Student 2010 Free Trial..it asked me what one I wanted ie. 32 bit or 64 bit...it says we recommend 64 bit so that's what I downloaded.

Download all done but it came up that I shouldn't have downloaded 64 bit as I don't have the capacity or something similar...I should have downloaded 32 bit.

It came up with ways to resolve it but as I'm not computer literate it's so confusing.

Can anyone please explain to me what I should do to resolve this and get it running properly.

Running Windows 7.

Many Thanks

[H20]

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I have looked and the 64 bit has not downloaded after all but I need to find a code for my 2007 Microsoft office as I don't know where it is...does anyone know where I can get this code from...I have contacted Microsoft at three different departments and they were worse than useless...please help, all I want to do is some missing cat posters here http://www.getmycat.com/lost-cat-flyers-search/ Thanks

[BeeCeeBee]

Where did you get the trial version? Was it from Microsoft?

Has this machine ever had any Office products on it before (trial or otherwise)?

[H20]

The computer came with office works 2007 when I got it at the end of 2009....it was a 60 day trial or so it says and now I need to put in a code to continue using it...don't know where the code is.

[GRANDAD]

Hi if your looking for a FREE office suit which is 'compatable' with Microsoft then try' OPEN OFFICE' it covers most if not all of the same areas.

It lokks to me like you would need to purchase the Microsoft suit to obtain a code while the above is compleatly free and lagit.

[H20]

Thanks, do you have a link for open office and will it let me do the cat posters?

[GRANDAD]

Just google 'OPEN OFFICE' download and off you go,and yes i believe it will.

[H20]

Is it Apache Open office?

[BeeCeeBee]

There is no question about it, once your trial is over you need to buy the office products in order to continue using them. Open office should work with those templates but I am not sure. He is a download site but keep in mind that it is CNet so be careful what you click on and don't accept any recommended toolbars etc.

http://download.cnet.com/OpenOffice-org/3000-18483_4-10263109.html

[GRANDAD]

Is it Apache Open office?

Yip that got me there but i just put into google OPEN OFFICE ------note BeeCeeBee's coments re other tool bars ect.

[H20]

No open office doesn't do the posters...

[H20]

There is no question about it, once your trial is over you need to buy the office products in order to continue using them. Open office should work with those templates but I am not sure. He is a download site but keep in mind that it is CNet so be careful what you click on and don't accept any recommended toolbars etc.

http://download.cnet.com/OpenOffice-org/3000-18483_4-10263109.html

 

So which open office is correct...apache or your link or are they the same?

[BeeCeeBee]

Having always used Microsoft Office Products I am not all that conversant with open office. However it does appear that Apache Open Office which, I think, is was once run by Oracle is now part of openoffice.org and seems to represent their latest offering. I am sure there are others here more familiar with Open Office but I can see no harm in giving Apache open office a try. The problem may be that the templates that you are trying to download may be very specific to Word.

[GRANDAD]

Looking at your link to the poster then if you use open office-- 'Publisher or Power point'-- you can create your own poster, ive just done a quick tester, no problem. Just creat text boxes and insert photos ect. Good luck.:o

[Plastic Nev]

Hi, at some stage, all Microsoft Office software has to be paid for to continue to use it.

However, if no luck with Open Office, there is another I learned about recently and I am quite impressed as it seems to handle Microsoft documents and files a little better and it is called Kingsoft Office.

Download it from here=

 

http://www.kingsoftstore.com/kingsoft-office-freeware.html

 

Nev.

[H20]

Thanks everyone.