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How to download office 2007 trial in Australia

Computer Aid Posted on 8 April, 2008 by Luigi Martin8 April, 2008

I attempted to download the Office 2007 trial for a customer.

I tried both from the MS website (USA and Australian variants), and via a google search.

In all cases, I had to wade through at least 4 microsoft pages, each with lots of nice pictures… looking for the elusive “download now” button.

When I eventually found the button, pressing it took me to another page, etc etc, until I was told I had to subscribe to MS .net passport…. What?

OK, fill in the form, click OK, and for about 4 or 5 times, it would not like something on the form (besides, I had to say I lived in Florida, as there were only USA states available… oh how I hate that!).

Anyway, after jumping through hoops, login using the MSN id, wade through a few more pages of marketing drivel, I’m eventually told:

You are attempting to submit an order without any items in your shopping cart

But I was never given an opportunity to put Office 2007 in my cart!!! grrr. I just want to download a trial, not apply for defence clearance!

After some research, I eventually find (via whirlpool) that microsoft have carefully hidden the download url at: http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/products/HA101741481033.aspx

At last. I download the trial (without most of the “jumping through hoops”), and it installs correctly, and is also smart (its a relative term) enough to recognise the old version of office, and basically tells me it can:

  • blow away the old office (with no indication of whether it will keep the setup data from the old one… a scary option for most people)
  • leave the old software where it is (but it says something like: office 2007 probably won’t work properly)

Not much choice is it?

I made sure I backed up the outlook data (which was my main concern), and I opted for the first option (exterminate office 2003).

Luckily it did the right thing, and automatically imported the outlook 2003 settings into outlook 2007.

Posted in Technical | Tagged australia, office 2007

openoffice spell check doesn’t work

Computer Aid Posted on 7 April, 2008 by Luigi Martin7 April, 2008

Note: if you just want a quick answer to the subject of this post (with no background story), then go to the end.

I had a customer that urgently needed to get his old win98 PC fixed.

It was a very old IBM, and it would get stuck at startup, displaying B4 in the top corner (probably a motherboard failure).

I transfer the data across to a slightly newer XP system… I can edit & print documents, so my job is done.

But I get called back the next day, as wordpad doesn’t have a “page counter”, nor a spell checker (which was on the old PC… I eventually figure out he was using MS word.

Customer doesn’t have any install media (his son set it up a while ago).

So I figure OpenOffice is the quickest solution.

Once installed, I open an existing word document, and I see it does the usual spell check, with the wavy red line under suspect words.

And running the spell check finds some spelling mishtakes.

I open a new office document, make some deliberate mis-spellings, but OOowriter doesn’t flag any of them… WTF?

After some research, I find that openoffice only installs the spell checker for US and UK English.

The problem will happen with any of the following english variants:

  • Australia
  • Belize
  • Canada
  • Eire
  • India
  • Jamaica
  • Namibia
  • New Zealand
  • Philippines
  • South Africa
  • Trinidad
  • Zimbabwe

The easiest fix is to use either USA english or UK english by:

start writer -> tools -> options -> Language Settings -> Languages -> Default languages for documents -> western -> pick either english (UK) or english (USA) -> OK -> restart openoffice.

A more “correct” way of doing it is to install the correct dictionary by:

start writer -> file ->wizards -> install new dictionaries -> english -> start dicOOo button -> English -> next -> retrieve the list -> English (Australia) -> (repeat for hyphenation dictionaries and thesaurus dictionaries -> next (to start the download) -> finish -> restart OOo

Posted in Technical | Tagged australia, openoffice, spellcheck

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