Beta Problem

[Guest]

I installed MS Office 2007 beta 2 and I believe beta 2 TR, but I forgot to
convert my excel files back to 2003 format when I left the US to travel to
another country for an extended vacation. I realize that was a foolish
mistake when working with betas, but errare humanum est. I have MS Office
2003 installed on my second computer, the smaller one I took with me on my
trip.

I am unable to buy MS Office 2007 here in the country I'm in (the product is
only sold in the U.S.), so I'm in kind of a bind. Apparently I can download
and install Beta 2 TR (which expires March 1, but that would give me a few
days to convert back to 2003 formats), but I need to have previous betas
already installed, and these betas have already expired as I understand it.
Could anyone please give me some advice? Thanks.

 

[Bob Phillips]

How many files? How big?

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

 

[Guest]

Bob, I have about 10 files, the largest of which is 53 megabytes. The reason
I was using the Excel beta was that the new version didn't have a row
restriction, and several of the large files have about 100,000 rows. I want
to purchase Excel 2007, but MS's complicated purchasing system is making it
difficult. I tried to order from amazon, but they said they only ship to U.S.
addresses, so I'm in a pickle.

 

[Bob Phillips]

I was going to offer to back-convert them for you (with the reduced
functionality that comes with that), but 53Mb wouldn't arrive, and I guess
that at that size they are confidential.

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

 

[Guest]

Bob, thanks for the offer. My only hope is finding a way to purchase a copy
of Office 2007 from this country. You would think it would be an easy task.
Amazon won't even ship it to this country.

 

[Debra Dalgleish]

At the bottom of the Amazon page are links to their sites for Canada,
United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, France and China. Maybe one of those
will ship to your country.

 

[Bob Phillips]

Which country is it Rebecca?

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HTH

Bob

(there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy)

 

[Dana DeLouis]

Don't know if this would work. Maybe you can download a 60-day trial
version.

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101741481033.aspx

I don't know "easy" it is when they say...
" - Easy to convert into a licensed version"

Maybe someone who's done it can jump in...