On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 10:00:35 -0500, Paul wrote:
Gordon wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:42:33 -0600, Gordon
wrote:
On Wed, 13 Nov 2013 15:45:57 -0500, "...winston"
wrote:
Gordon wrote:
I still can't make a decision on this. I just went to the local
computer store and read the information on the little envelope that
contains some kind of business card with a code on it. It seems to me
that buying one of these will let me set my one computer up to do my
regular MS Office work on cloud nine or some such. That is, I won't
have a copy of the MS Office client software installed on my computer.
Did I misinterpret the information on the MS Office 2013 envelopes at
the store?
Here are the Office versions available.
http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/...oryID.62684700
Which box did you read ?
365 is subscription based, Office 2013 is not.
- Some 365 plans come with locally installed Office applications.
- All Office 2013 version install Office locally on your machine.
- W
I guess I must have been reading the wrong box. I'll go back tomorrow
and have another look.
I would really like to find a box copy that would let me choose which
components it contains. I don't need anything other than Word, Excel
and Outlook, but all the available boxes include One Note, Access and
Publisher. I wish I could do a pick and choose, but I see no way to do
this. Gordon
I really messed things up, yesterday. I went to Staples and bought one
of the envelope things with MS Office Home & Business 3013 printed on
the face of it. Inside there was a small card with a Product Key on
it. I followed the directions inside this little envelope and tried to
do a download & install of MS. Office Home and Business 2013. When I
finished, no changes had been made on my computer other than some of
my existing programs had been modified a bit, yet were still the same
2010 version. For example, my Microsoft Outlook is now a (Trial)
version. Then I noticed that all the download and install had been
done on the Microsoft Sky Drive. I can access all the programs in this
Home Business setup and use them on Sky Drive, but I cannot get them
installed onto my own computer. What can I try, next? Gordon
Did it ask for the key ?
Does the key have a tech support phone number ?
Any company stupid enough to do this style of
sales, had better have top-notch technical support
for it.
I don't care what Winston says, I'd be looking for a stand alone
installer.
http://www.heidoc.net/joomla/technol...download-links
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http://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/39...nessRetail.img
That download disc is listed as 2.1GB.
The reason I recommend looking for installer discs, is
there can be differences between electronic (online)
installations, versus the ones done by installer discs.
For example, my $39.95 Win8 electronic download
contains only a single image folder (install.esd), whereas an
MSDN subscription DVD image contains all the OS
variants as separate image folders in the install.wim .
That's only important if you want to remove ei.cfg
and make a universal installer DVD (the key string
being the gating item).
But the thing is, these downloads don't have to be
identical. And I'd take a standalone download .iso file
for a DVD any day, over a pared-down direct install.
It's the same philosophy I use with Adobe Flash installations.
An ActiveX installed Flash probably works, but I'm not
interested in taking a chance. So I download the .exe
version instead. Because it has *always* worked for me.
*******
Hmmmm. This doesn't look good. There are two installer
technologies. The old one is MSI file. The new one
is called "Click-To-Run". Apparently 2010, you could
do something to use the MSI based one. 2013 is only
Click-To-Run. Apparently that prevents custom installations,
where you select what you want to install.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/o...d38823e?page=1
With regard to what is installed on the computer, I'd
check the two Program Files directories, to see if anything
is in there. The cloud integration, might be for the
file storage on a save.
http://superuser.com/questions/51737...of-on-skydrive
-- http://www.pressbyte.com/12300/8-ste...e-office-2013/
HTH,
Paul
Maybe my problems with MS Office 2013 hiding in the shadows on my new
HP Pavilion with Windows 8.1 is that I have this computer set up to
run in 64 bit mode while MS Office 2013 prefers the (MUCH ADVANCED) 32
bit mode???
When I try to go back through the download/install process it seems to
get started with the job then I get a pop-up screen that says,
"Something went wrong. Office can't do that right now because your
product is busy with another task. Please wait for this task to
complete and try again.
Go online for more help."
So, I shut all my other client software down and left the computer
overnight, hoping it would finish this other task, but this morning I
got the same popup and nothing could be found that would clear the
"other task" out of the way. Gordon