Where do I go to start my trial version on a brand-new computer??

[Sam&Co.]

I have a brand new computer and Microsoft Office is not installed on it. I
downloaded the trial version of Office 2007, got my product key, but I how do
I begin using it?! There is no icon, etc. to open it. Hope this makes sense!

 

[Gyorgy Moldova [MVP]]

run the downloaded file and let setup do the rest

 

[Sam&Co.]

Sorry to sound dumb, but where do I do that? I have honestly looked all over
and do not see anything to that effect, I must be missing something...thanks!

 

[Mary Sauer]

Double-click the download...

 

[Sam&Co.]

Ok, I give up...all I have is an email from Microsoft with the product
key...there is nothing to click on except Getting Started, Office Tips, File
Conversion, and How Others are Using the Product; NONE of them, when clicked
on, show any "download" to click on...and I have been all over the
site/computer looking as well. I understand what to do, but I can't seem to
find where to do it, and I am pretty good with this stuff usually, believe it
or not! I am using Vista, does that matter?

 

[Sam&Co.]

Forget it, I'm just going to use the word processing program that came with
Works for now. Guess I will just have to purchase Office the old-fashioned
way (in the store). Thanks anyway for the help.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Uninstall the trial before installing the purchased version, just a quick tip.

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After furious head scratching, Sam&Co. asked:

| Forget it, I'm just going to use the word processing program that
| came with Works for now. Guess I will just have to purchase Office
| the old-fashioned way (in the store). Thanks anyway for the help.
|
| "Sam&Co." wrote:
|
|| Ok, I give up...all I have is an email from Microsoft with the
|| product key...there is nothing to click on except Getting Started,
|| Office Tips, File Conversion, and How Others are Using the Product;
|| NONE of them, when clicked on, show any "download" to click on...and
|| I have been all over the site/computer looking as well. I
|| understand what to do, but I can't seem to find where to do it, and
|| I am pretty good with this stuff usually, believe it or not! I am
|| using Vista, does that matter?
||
|| "Mary Sauer" wrote:
||
||| Double-click the download...
|||
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||| Mary Sauer MSFT MVP
||| http://office.microsoft.com/
||| http://msauer.mvps.org/
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||| |||| I have a brand new computer and Microsoft Office is not installed
|||| on it. I downloaded the trial version of Office 2007, got my
|||| product key, but I how do I begin using it?! There is no icon,
|||| etc. to open it. Hope this makes sense!

 

[Sam&Co.]

I will...thank you for the tip! : )

 

[Shonius]

The same thing happened to me. Look on your desktop: there should be an
icon that looks like a computer with a hard drive and has a bunch of numbers
and letters under it. If you click on it, it will automatically open and run
the software you downloaded.