Why did my trial expire under 30 days?

[AFIloverforever234]

i spent two hours downloading the trial and it said it couldnt type anything
because the modification was locked. Then i realized that the expiration date
which said April 30, 2008 now read expired and it continually asked me to
convert it. I don't own a credit card, im in high school. I dont have the
money to pay for the full product. All i wanted was a trial so i can type my
report but apparently this thing sucks and i can't do that.

 

[garfield-n-odie [MVP]]

If your computer previously had a free trial version of Office
installed, then you cannot install another trial version in an attempt
to continue to use the software for free indefinitely.

 

[Jay Freedman]

i spent two hours downloading the trial and it said it couldnt type anything
because the modification was locked. Then i realized that the expiration date
which said April 30, 2008 now read expired and it continually asked me to
convert it. I don't own a credit card, im in high school. I dont have the
money to pay for the full product. All i wanted was a trial so i can type my
report but apparently this thing sucks and i can't do that.

If you have no intention of buying Office, you don't need the trial anyway. Get
OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org) or Symphony (http://symphony.lotus.com)
or if you have a Mac try NeoOffice (http://www.neooffice.org). All of them are
permanently free and won't expire.

 

[Terry Farrell]

Or even try Google Docs which look very promising and it means that you can
access your work from any Internet connected PC (so no more 'I left it at
home' or 'the dog chewed my disk' excuses.