Activate ONLY Outlook from Office 2007 trial?

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DZO

How to activate only Outlook 2007 after using Office 2007 trial? The
activation dialogue box says to delete other components in Add/remove
software but there I seem to have the option of deleting all Office (not
selected applications).

The trial site offers no help that I can find. I thought it would save time
to do this online - do I have to go down to a store and buy the disk (and
just delete the whole trial office including Outlook?).

TIA for any help.. Don
 
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DL

I dont believe you can.
You would have to uninstall the trial and purchase OL standalone (any data
would remain)
 
D

DZO

Thanks for the feedback. Here is the sentence in the dialogue box for
converting the trial product that had me wondering: "If you do not want to
convert the full product, you may use Add or Remove Programs in Control Panel
to remove the software from your computer."

I guess it can be read two ways: (1) if you don't want the full thing,
delete the parts of it you don't want; or (2) if youo don't want the whole
thing, get rid of it all.

I was hoping for #1. I'm resigned to #2. I wish that MS were clearer on the
point somewhere (I know they want to sell the whole suite, but if they won't
make it easy to convert one application, then at least say so.)

DL said:
I dont believe you can.
You would have to uninstall the trial and purchase OL standalone (any data
would remain)
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DL

The Trial is the 'Full' product and as such there is no pick & choose

I believe you will find the stand alone version of OL is quite a hefty price
compared to eg an upgrade version of Office that contains OL.
Be aware not all Office versions include OL
It also cheaper to buy from eg Amazon.com as compared with MS direct
 
D

DZO

Thanks. The OL by itself is normally 110; Amazon had if for 90 (plus shipping
if you don't want to wait a week).

Office standard runs 400 (the home & student version is 150, but that's
without the full OL, let alone the OL plus whatever extra they give it in the
upper end Office verisons). Neither my personal nor project budgets at this
point will support the full MS Office cost.

All the best.

DL said:
The Trial is the 'Full' product and as such there is no pick & choose

I believe you will find the stand alone version of OL is quite a hefty price
compared to eg an upgrade version of Office that contains OL.
Be aware not all Office versions include OL
It also cheaper to buy from eg Amazon.com as compared with MS direct
Click to expand...
....
 
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