Can't install Office 2007

When I try to install, it says i have a prerelease version of office2007 and it won't upgrade to office12. The thing is, this is a new g50vt-a1 and i've never installed office onto it before. what is going on? I have not installed expressions before either. (Don't know what that is) I do have windows live messenger though

 

Office 2007 is office 12. Do you have a legal copy?

 

A lot of newer laptops come with the Student Edition of Office. If you have the full or regular edition I would highly suggest you uninstall the Student edition first.

 

A little bit off-topic - but I'll take the risk: I would skip Office 2007 if I were you. I work in a large "office" environment with over 70 clients using both 2003 and 2007. Of all of the dozens of people I've spoken to, only two have voiced a preference for 2007. The vast majority have the same opinion I have: Office 2007 is trash and it was re-designed for the sole purpose of taking people's money. The Office 2007 Compatability Pack for O2K3 works wonderfully and its free. Just my opinion...

 

Yep, I agree with this.

 

The question is, is that because these people can't find the buttons they used on Office 2003 in Office 2007?

Overall, Office 2007 is superior to Office 2003.
The whole code was tidied up and optimized.
It supports more formats.
The new format needs significantly less space.

I think your experience is not because Office 2007 is bad, but because people are so used to Office 2003 - and the difference between these versions is subtle and huge at the same time.

 

I would consider that a small office environment. I work in an environment with over 10,000 client computers running office and while the initial hatred towards 2007 was obvious, checking back a few months later that opinion changed and most users who disliked it at first had changed their mind.

 

DetlevCM - Yes, I have heard a little about the improvements on the backend of Office 2007. I strongly disagree with you about 2007 being superior. For internet access and such, we are stuck with 2005-ish Dells with 1-Gb of RAM and P4 CPU's. Outlook 2007 ALWAYS goes into not responding mode when started on "my" system and two folks sitting next to me. And forget about starting Excel, which we use alot, while Outlook is running. Word runs OK and seems to be the least demanding and easiest to learn of the Big Four. MS could have tidied up and optimized the code, supported more formats and used less space while NOT messing with the interface - and a bunch of us would be a lot happier. My employer has deep pockets so 2007 is available to whomever wants it installed - and only a couple have actually asked for it.

 

Hmm, I was running the Beta 2 of Office 2007 a lot on my old Medion.
(Only full Office suite available to me )

At the time:
1,6GHz Pentium M (Centrino) 512MB RAM - it worked fine...
I used Outlook 2002 though - so I can only speak for Word and Power Point - I once had Power Point very slow, but that was overkill on one slide... (stuff appearing, diappearing in several layers)
Else they worked perfectly.

About Excel - I don't know how large your data sets are - but they must be quite large, as it ran fine for very, very small ones a couple of times.
But generally I kept away from Excel - I don't really like it...

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Yep, I hated Office 2007 when I first installed it, couldn't find anything.... now it's commonplace.

 

It can be a royal pain getting used to at times! However, it seems to run pretty well on my 6 y.o. 1.3GHz centrino, with only 768MB RAM, so I'd say it's probably got some decent improvements under the hood.

EDIT: After reading Jakpro's post below, I just wanted to be clear - I'm perfectly happy with Office 2007, and generally don't have any problems with it other than every so often when I can't seem to find some functionality I'm used to in Office 2003 in a place where it would logically seem to have been put - the last time was looking for how to access the tab editing functionality; once I found it, though, that was no longer a problem.

 

I like 2007 a lot! At first, I looked at it and asked "What the heck did Microsoft do to Office?"

Now, after I learned the interface and organization, not only does it load and operate faster, it also requires significantly fewer steps to do the same things than on 2003. It is streamlined.

Yes, there is a learning curve. However, once you have learned how the system works, it is superior to 2003.

I use all of the separate programs and use them in an integrated fashion.

As far as installation goes, you really should remove all traces of Office 2003 before installing.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926798