Office 2007 Public Beta

**liam858** · May 23rd, 2006, 07:46 PM

Linky: http://www.microsoft.com/office/prev...etthebeta.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** · May 24th, 2006, 08:16 AM

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

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** · May 24th, 2006, 09:38 AM

I think it's Feb 1, 2007.

**liam858** · May 24th, 2006, 10:33 AM

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

Little taster:

Liam

**judge john** · May 24th, 2006, 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by liam858

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** · May 24th, 2006, 10:47 AM

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.

Liam

**judge john** · May 24th, 2006, 11:06 AM

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** · May 24th, 2006, 12:18 PM

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

**judge john** · May 24th, 2006, 01:25 PM

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

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**photolady** · May 24th, 2006, 07:02 PM

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** · May 24th, 2006, 09:14 PM

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

**liam858** · May 26th, 2006, 01:57 PM

Me too, yay.

Only problem now, and i'm not moaning

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** · May 26th, 2006, 08:20 PM

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

**judge john** · May 26th, 2006, 08:46 PM

no, why?

**photolady** · May 26th, 2006, 09:28 PM

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.

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