can i install my purchased office suite (2007) on both my PCs ?

[WARGRRL]

i will be purchasing a microsoft office suite but first i must know up to how
many PCs i can install it on as i have my desktop and 2 notebooks. this will
determine which version i buy. thank-you

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Generally one desktop and one laptop, both used by you. Student and Teacher
allows for three installations however it is for noncommercial use only.

 

[Roger]

Unless there is a special reason why you need 2007 I would strongly suggest
you re-consider your decision to purchase this product.
I have been working with MS for 3 months as they try and resolve slow
response in opening and navigating in Excel ( 1:45 to open a file, Crach when
you change a vlaue in a cell etc)
I would go to the Excel group and search on the word SLOW to see that I am
not the only one experienceing slow response with Excel.

You will also find a very steep learning curve as most of the commands you
are use to under previous versions of Office are now multiple clocks away
instead on one or two.

 

[Alias]

i will be purchasing a microsoft office suite but first i must know up to how
many PCs i can install it on as i have my desktop and 2 notebooks. this will
determine which version i buy. thank-you

If you don't use Outlook and want to save *hundreds* of dollars,
download the FREE Open Office than can be installed on as many computers
as you like and you can/may use it for both personal and business
reasons. You can get it at http://www.openoffice.org/

Alias

 

[Gordon]

1:45 to open a file,

Hmmm - 6 seconds here.....

 

[Peter Foldes]

Instant here. Less than 2 seconds

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hmmm - 6 seconds here.....

Roger's file?

Apples. Oranges.

 

[Gordon]

Roger's file?

Apples. Oranges.

He said "a" file - he didn't specify any size or location or anything,
therefore my response was perfectly in line with that..

 

[Earle Horton]

I am having problems with Word 2007 taking forever to open a file or do
anything under Vista with a networked printer. I unplugged the printer from
the network server and plugged it directly into the computer. Open time
went down to more like your six seconds. The weird thing, this happened to
three Vista computers in my house at the same time. No way to debug it, and
little interest, so all three are booting XP for now.

It could be anything. Try setting default printer to Microsoft XPS Document
Writer and see if open time goes down.

Earle

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

He said "a" file - he didn't specify any size or location or anything,
therefore my response was perfectly in line with that..

Nor did he say "any file".

 

[Roger]

Gordon and others.

File which I have been using since 1997 under Office 97 and Office 2003 with
no problems to speak of.
The file is 5,343kb in Excel 03 but only 1,099k in Excel 07 in both xlsm
and xlsx format. I have no idea why the file size is different.

It has one chart and two relatively simple Macros, 8 worksheets with
numerous cells referencing cells in a different worksheet.
Current performance of Excel 2007 under WinXP 2GB Ram 1.8Ghz cpu
vs Excel 2003 under Vista 2GB ram 1.8 Ghz cpu

In both test cases I had the file on my desktop and no other programs were
running
Open the file by dble click Excel 07 22 sec
Excel 03 11 sec including click on warning to enable macros

Change the value of a single empty cell to a new numeric value.
Excel 03 <1 sec
Excel 07 Gave up after two minutes. Attempted to close Excell which caused
crash of program.
I have been in direct contact with a person from MS who only suggested I
remove a number of symbols that had been added to one worksheet due to copy &
paste from a web site chart. His suggestion made no performance improvement.
I have not been able to get any help or support from MS and am not going to
pay them $50 bucks and spend hours fixing their program.

I ran this test on two different machines as I was getting tired of spending
the hour as I repeatadly attempted to uninstall and clense the registry as I
switch back and forth between the two versions of Excell.

Bottom line Excell 2007 appears not to be out of Beta.
I have uninstalled 2007 and gone back to Office 2003 which actually runs.