Purchasing Office 2007 Confused from Surrey 6/15/2007 5:55:00 PM Having just purchased a new PC together with software etc etc I got home and loaded the new Windows Office 2007 software. I wanted Word, Excel and Outlook. Regretably I do not have Outlook but Powerpoint instead. Having mistakenly bought the Home and Student version instead of the Standard version I wondered what can I do? Assuming I cannot replace the software can I purchase an upgrade from Home & Student to Standard? If not, what else can be recommended? Please advise. Thanks

Re: Purchasing Office 2007 XS11E <xs11e[ at ]NOSPAMyahoo.com> 6/15/2007 6:14:31 PM Confused from Surrey <Confused from Surrey[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] > Having just purchased a new PC together with software etc etc I > got home and loaded the new Windows Office 2007 software. > > I wanted Word, Excel and Outlook. Regretably I do not have Outlook > but Powerpoint instead. Having mistakenly bought the Home and > Student version instead of the Standard version I wondered what > can I do? > > Assuming I cannot replace the software can I purchase an upgrade > from Home & Student to Standard? If not, what else can be > recommended? The first thing I'd try is to tell your software vendor you've made an error and picked the wrong version, ask if there's some option available. It may not work but it's worth a try. -- XS11E, Killing all posts from Google Groups The Usenet Improvement Project: http://blinkynet.net/comp/uip5.html

Re: Purchasing Office 2007 "garfield-n-odie [MVP]" <garfieldnodie[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> 6/15/2007 7:25:41 PM Are you in the UK Surrey or the Canada Surrey or some other Surrey? If you are in North America, and if you have a retail copy of Office 2007 (not an OEM copy that came preinstalled on your new computer by the computer manufacturer), then you might be able to get a refund from your retailer or from Microsoft. See http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/productrefund/refund.asp for more information. Office 2007 Home and Student Edition is a qualifying product for upgrade to Office 2007 Standard Edition, and the suggested retail price for the upgrade is US$239. But it would be cheaper for you to purchase a standalone copy of Outlook 2007 (suggested retail price is US$109.95) and add it to your existing Office 2007 HSE, assuming of course that you can live with the non-commercial use limitation of Office 2007 HSE. Confused from Surrey wrote: [Quoted Text] > Having just purchased a new PC together with software etc etc I got home and > loaded the new Windows Office 2007 software. > > I wanted Word, Excel and Outlook. Regretably I do not have Outlook but > Powerpoint instead. Having mistakenly bought the Home and Student version > instead of the Standard version I wondered what can I do? > > Assuming I cannot replace the software can I purchase an upgrade from Home & > Student to Standard? If not, what else can be recommended? > > Please advise. > > Thanks

Re: Purchasing Office 2007 "JoAnn Paules" <jl_paules[ at ]hotNOSPAMmail.com> 6/15/2007 7:28:14 PM There is no upgrade version available for Outlook alone so that's out. It runs about $109. To be honest with the the cost of HSE + Outlook as a standalone will cost you less than if you return the HSE (assuming you can) and buying Office Standard. Plus you'll have PowerPoint and OneNote. This assumes that you are using it for non-commercial use, of course. -- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] ~~~~~ How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375 "Confused from Surrey" <Confused from Surrey[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:EA37B1FF-F7BF-458F-A605-BE76A5056E24[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Having just purchased a new PC together with software etc etc I got home > and > loaded the new Windows Office 2007 software. > > I wanted Word, Excel and Outlook. Regretably I do not have Outlook but > Powerpoint instead. Having mistakenly bought the Home and Student version > instead of the Standard version I wondered what can I do? > > Assuming I cannot replace the software can I purchase an upgrade from Home > & > Student to Standard? If not, what else can be recommended? > > Please advise. > > Thanks