I recently bought a new laptop which had the 2007 version microsoft office installed. I did not know that it was only a 60 day trail period, but I didn't keep the product key so now I am stuck with a new computer without microsoft office. What can I do? How do I fix this? I really really need to use microsoft word a lot of the time for assignments etc. and now I can't, I don't know what to do. I pretty much have a computer I can't even use.
Alin75 answered Monday April 7 2008, 8:32 am: I do not know what to do about the product key. However I can tell you where to find a replacement that is virtually identical to MS Office and totally free.
Its called open office and you can download it here:
It has clones of pretty much all the key MS products. Just be careful that by default it saves in open document format. So if you want to open your work on a computer running Word or another Office application, you need to remember to tell it to save in the right format. Thats easy enough though, and it supports dozens of different file formats (it even has a pdf converter built in). [ Alin75's advice column | Ask Alin75 A Question ]
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