I was working with a trial version of 2007 that came preloaded on my new
computer. I clicked on a prompt to setup a 60-day trial and completed that
process. Now I can only use the "bare bones" of my Office programs, and most
of the features I need to use are unaccessible. Is there a way to remove the
new trial version (60-day) so I can go back to my old trial version? I tried
to run a system restore, but it said the process failed. I really feel like
I was tricked here.

If you are saying that you had a trial version of Office 2007, and after
the trial period expired you installed another trial version of Office
2007 in an attempt to continue to use the software without buying it,
then what you did won't work. You cannot continue to use Office trial
versions indefinitely by repeatedly reinstalling them. Otherwise, I'm
not sure what you mean by new trial version and old trial version and
feeling tricked.

SonyaGolfer wrote:

> I was working with a trial version of 2007 that came preloaded on my new
> computer. I clicked on a prompt to setup a 60-day trial and completed that
> process. Now I can only use the "bare bones" of my Office programs, and most
> of the features I need to use are unaccessible. Is there a way to remove the
> new trial version (60-day) so I can go back to my old trial version? I tried
> to run a system restore, but it said the process failed. I really feel like
> I was tricked here.

How about when you start the trial and after three days it does not allow to
do anything except view your files, but not edit them. I thought I was to get
a 60 day trial - not 3 days. I activated 3 days ago. From reading numerous
other threads here it seems the trial version is very unreliable so time to
unistall it. Not bad for a computer just 3 days old.

"garfield-n-odie [MVP]" wrote:

> If you are saying that you had a trial version of Office 2007, and after
> the trial period expired you installed another trial version of Office
> 2007 in an attempt to continue to use the software without buying it,
> then what you did won't work. You cannot continue to use Office trial
> versions indefinitely by repeatedly reinstalling them. Otherwise, I'm
> not sure what you mean by new trial version and old trial version and
> feeling tricked.
>
> SonyaGolfer wrote:
>
> > I was working with a trial version of 2007 that came preloaded on my new
> > computer. I clicked on a prompt to setup a 60-day trial and completed that
> > process. Now I can only use the "bare bones" of my Office programs, and most
> > of the features I need to use are unaccessible. Is there a way to remove the
> > new trial version (60-day) so I can go back to my old trial version? I tried
> > to run a system restore, but it said the process failed. I really feel like
> > I was tricked here.
>
>