Office 2007 Public Beta

[liam858]

Linky: http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/beta/getthebeta.mspx

I'm getting the full Pro suite as we speak. :)

Enjoy.....and don't moan if things don't work, key word here people is beta ;)

And as the servers are sluggish from time to time you can have the CD mailed to you, which is nice.

Liam

[judge john]

well that was amazingly easy. and for me the servers where very good, only had to wait a minute for it all at 8000kb/s :D
only problem is I’m working with some rather important data on Excel so i will leave it a week until i take the risk to upgrade.
Also how long is the beta valid until?

[Tuttle]

I think it's Feb 1, 2007.

[liam858]

Well, my Word and Outlook won't activate, so it looks like it'll be valid for 50 days. :(

Little taster:

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/5221/word20071qr.th.jpg (http://img130.imageshack.us/my.php?image=word20071qr.jpg)

Liam

[judge john]

Well, my Word and Outlook won't activate, so it looks like it'll be valid for 50 days. :(
Liam

neither will mine. won't connect to server but i thought it was cause it had problems with my proxy server. but maybe it's a bigger problem then?

[liam858]

Hopefully it's a problem their end then, at least they have 50 days to fix it, i might report it as a bug....good start.:rolleyes:


Liam

[judge john]

also my installation wasn't so straight forward. it came up telling me to 'close this program before installation could complete', but then it listed no programs! so i just choose ignore and went on.

[ecross]

I'm having trouble getting the activation to work as well.

[judge john]

this is a long shot but i will try it anyway. anyone know how to do regression in Excel with it? i can't seem to find the formula i need unlike in the older versions :( .

[photolady]

I downloaded it right after I saw this post last night. I haven't tried to install it yet as I want to put it on my computer at work instead of my home computer. Having said all that, I visited one of my other forums and those guys said they're not having any problems with activation. Maybe the servers were busy when you guys tried.....?

[judge john]

you may well be right there. i tried it again and it worked fine straight away

[liam858]

Me too, yay. :)

Only problem now, and i'm not moaning :rolleyes: it's just the search thingie that has to be installed seperately, and firing up task manager, it runs in the background, so i stopped it, ran outlook, and it started again, so i watched it and it ran upto about 60-70mb usage, so i hope they fix that.


Liam

[photolady]

Question. Are any of you running this on a separate partition?

[judge john]

no, why?

[photolady]

oh ok. I just wondered if any of you were because I would rather have this on my 200gb drive which has loads of space, where as my 40gb has little space.

[Tuttle]

All my apps get installed on D: instead of C:. Just make sure you click the Customize button in the installer.

[photolady]

Ok, thanks Tuttle. I talked to someone else and they said they thought they had installed it on another partition only to find it went to their C drive. I don't want that, so thanks again for the help. I'll probably install this tomorrow.

[liam858]

That searchindexer.exe is a royal pain on memory usage, and it can be disabled in Services (Cotrol Panel OR Start|Run|Services.msc) and Windows Search Service needs to be stopped, and Right-Click|Properties, and from the dropdown select Stop.


Liam

[photolady]

Thanks for the tip Liam. I still haven't installed mine yet. Long story on why that I will be posting about here in our forum shortly..well, in a couple of days.

[SuperSparks]

I tried to install it in Vista beta 2, but it won't accept the product key :( I'll have to see if I can get another key (I downloaded it from MSDN subscriptions). You certainly do have to jump through some hurdles to do beta testing sometimes :rolleyes:

[Tuttle]

If you downloaded the media from MSDN, you need the key from there too. The MSDN Beta 2 version doesn't require activation like the public download does.

[SuperSparks]

I feel such a fool :o I transposed two of the characters when I wrote the key down. It's happily installing as I type this :)

[photolady]

I think we've all mistyped a key at one time or another Nick. So, don't feel bad about it. As is the saying around here....it's happened to the best of us. ;)