Outlook Trial

[Joe Medford]

I customer of mine wants Outlook 2007. I ordered it and it should be in
sometime next week. How can I install the trial verison of just Outlook,
so when the get the box, they can just enter the key?
If I download the trial version of office standard, and just install Outlook
will the key work when they get it.

 

[VanguardLH]

I customer of mine wants Outlook 2007. I ordered it and it should
be in sometime next week. How can I install the trial verison of
just Outlook, so when the get the box, they can just enter the key?
If I download the trial version of office standard, and just install
Outlook will the key work when they get it.

You can't. According to instructions from Microsoft (I forget the KB
article but you can do the search yourself), you are REQUIRED to
uninstall the trial version BEFORE you install the normal version.
You cannot "update" a trial version to a normal version by trying to
install the normal version atop of the trial version.

 

[Joe Medford]

For Office Home & Student and Office Standard I have always just bought the
key and entered it into the product and it just worked.

But was woundering if there is a trial of Outlook only or if I just install
Outlook from Office Standard, if the key will activate the Outlook product.

 

[VanguardLH]

For Office Home & Student and Office Standard I have always just
bought the key and entered it into the product and it just worked.

That is worked does not mean it is recommended or supported. I wasn't
going to suggest or condone an upgrade path that is known to be
fraught with problems that show up later.

But was woundering if there is a trial of Outlook only or if I just
install Outlook from Office Standard, if the key will activate the
Outlook product.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295547/en-us

Their setup.exe program will uninstall the trial version for you;
else, you do the uninstall of the trial version first and then follow
with the install of the non-trial version. In either case, the trial
version gets uninstalled before you can install the non-trial version.

I doubt you are helping your customer by making them wade through an
install of a trial version to only replace it in less than a week (and
even less time now) with the real version.

 

[Joe Medford]

Thanks

That is worked does not mean it is recommended or supported. I wasn't
going to suggest or condone an upgrade path that is known to be fraught
with problems that show up later.


http://support.microsoft.com/kb/295547/en-us

Their setup.exe program will uninstall the trial version for you; else,
you do the uninstall of the trial version first and then follow with the
install of the non-trial version. In either case, the trial version gets
uninstalled before you can install the non-trial version.

I doubt you are helping your customer by making them wade through an
install of a trial version to only replace it in less than a week (and
even less time now) with the real version.