Re: Cheap Microsoft office?
Okay. I've taken one for the team - bought it last night from Amazon and have spent the last couple of hours installing it after I made a disk image of my C: drive just in case of cock-ups.
The whole process was seamless - just click on one of the the links supplied in the confirmation email (32-bit or 64-bit depending on your machine) and off you go. It does recommend that you uninstall any previous versions of Office first but I didn't bother but did do later after everything had been installed and running properly. I have a 64-bit machine but chose to use the 32-bit version for compatibility with Outlook which I use for emails and calendar.
After backing up my Outlook pst. and archive folders I went ahead and uninstalled my copy of Office 2007. Everything runs without a hitch. When you run Word for the first time (recommended) a pop-up invites you to enter the product-code in the appropriate box and the program is verified and authorised. You then have to shut down word and then re-open it again, this activates all of the remaining parts of the Office Suite. Be sure to select the correct document format for your needs in Word because you can select the .odt as used by Open Office and Libre by default but this would preclude you from using MS Office files properly.
The whole layout of the new Office Suite is nice and clean and much more readable than my previous version
Had a bit of a glitch with Outlook as the contents my Gmail folder (imap) wouldn't show - buggered about with changing profiles but that didn't work so hit on the idea of creating a new account but using the same details of my original account. Success! I can now access my Gmails, all I had to do then was delete the old account and set the new up as the default.
All I have to do now is set up my Access database files to the new version - it was an absolute pig converting from 2003 to 2007 so I'm not looking forward to this.
Think I need a beer.