On Mon, 6 Apr 2020 02:59:29 +0530, Arlen Holder wrote:
Given I re-imaged the system recently, I had to download the Office 2007,
where the office-2007-pro download URL in this thread _still_ works today
without needing to call Microsoft Office support at +1-800-360-7561.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27838
Here is this original 2018 thread on obtaining MS Office 2007 installers.
o *SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018*
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/7ru4_AyhPCY/zVvnOpmAAwAJ
Where these are key posts by Shadow & Paul:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/7ru4_AyhPCY/O2k-41oNAwAJ
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/7ru4_AyhPCY/8JxSMxBWAgAJ
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/7ru4_AyhPCY/b5zePO8KAwAJ
etc.
Based on those links posted in 2018, I had tried this first:
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/01/209774629-10300055--NOA//office2010/X16-69453.exe
But that just redirected me to an Office 365 subscription page:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/home-use-program?rtc=1
Then I tried this URL, which acted strange, as nothing happened:
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/01/32000519-3082940-O12SBATR-NOA/msoffice/pub/X12-30283/X12-30283.exe
*This is the only link that finally worked for me in April 2020*:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27838
That downloaded "X12-30196.exe" from http://web.archive.org, specifically:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120111100736/http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msoffice/pub/X12-30196/X12-30196.exe
Which shows up in the Control-J download link as:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120111100736if_/http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msoffice/pub/X12-30196/X12-30196.exe
Whose 7-zip hash appears to be:
Name: X12-30196.exe
Size: 407010384 bytes (388 MiB)
SHA256: 87542421E545C2F52416DC6216E98BB13ADB425424744EDB8B 2C667619D27C68
Doubleclicking on that installer file comes up with:
Extracting files, please wait...
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007 == note the "Plus" whatever that means?
After choosing a custom installation, it says:
Space required for Local Installation Source: 407MB
Space required for program files: 798MB
Total space required on drive: 1305MB
Enter your 25-character Product Key:
{you can skip this step for now, or enter the 25-character key}
By default, it wants to be installed into:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office
But you should put it where it belongs, which, for me, is:
C:\app\editor\msoffice
Then it comes up with a window saying:
Installing Microsoft Office Professional 2007...
And, after a few minutes, the window says:
Microsoft office Professional 2007 has been successfully installed.
Note: I have no idea what the "plus" meant, but separately I ran:
Name: SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe
Size: 956344 bytes (933 KiB)
SHA256: 32769F304991D8D5836D9AFADF20DB1FBAF6876F29E5FEB0D1 9C5B806A67441D
Which installed the "Save as PDF" option to Microsoft Office 2007.
BTW, it's off topic, but here is an Office 2010 download link also suggested:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/office?culture=en-US&ref=o12
Where I haven't tested that out yet (I will soon, but it's off topic here).
And here's the thread where the BSOD forced a re-installation of Windows:
o Windows 10 BSOD indicates a hardware problem - but what hardware is the problem?
https://alt.comp.os.windows-10.narkive.com/oL7PTNKu/windows-10-bsod-indicates-a-hardware-problem-but-what-hardware-is-the-problem
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Update
Yet again I needed to re-image the Win10 system due to failures to reboot after a hardware-related BSODs, as described in detail in this thread:
o Windows 10 BSOD indicates a hardware problem - but what hardware is the problem?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.comp.microsoft.windows/u0ay9h777Wg
After wiping the HDD, I had to re-install MS Office 2007 Pro, as per:
o SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/7ru4_AyhPCY
Picking up where that M$ Office 2007 pro installation tutorial left off...
A. Make a "before" system restore point
Win+R sysdm.cpl System Protection Create
B. Reboot (just to make sure the BSOD isn't on the verge of happening)
C. Install MS Office 2007 & the SaveAsPDF plugin (see instructions below)
D. Make an "after" system restore point
E. Reboot
Where the office installation step above is expanded as follows:
1. Doubleclick on X16-69453.exe saved from the previous tutorial's download
Name: X16-69453.exe
Size: 420496200 bytes (401 MiB)
SHA256: EF7A104E2CD4A75B5EF1CBBDC7D0F51B26DDEEFFF2BF0C9CF7 3844FC0C5D76D7
After the UAC access consent, it says
"Microsoft Office Plus 2007 extracting files, please wait."
When it asks "Enter your Product Key" type your 25-character Product key
ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDE-ABCDE (a green checkmark will show up if valid)
Press [Continue]
2. Choose "Customize" when you see [Install now][Customize]
Check the "File Location" tab and change from:
File Location C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office
Change to: (this will be wherever your well-organized system puts things)
File Location C:\app\editor\suite\msoffice
Set the User Information to "." for the "Full Name" and "Initials"
(this doesn't seem to do anything - see later for details on why)
3. Turn everything it wants to install OFF first.
Then turn on ONLY what you want.
What I had wanted for a typical home computer was:
Microsoft Office Excel == Run from My Computer
Microsoft Office PowerPoint == Run from My Computer
Organization Chart Add-in for Microsoft Office programs == Run from My Computer
Microsoft Office Word == Run from My Computer
Office Shared Features
Converters and Files == Run all from My Computer
Office Tools
Equation Editor == Run from My Computer
Microsoft Graph == Run from My Computer
Total space required on drive: 882 MB
Press [Install Now]
It says "Microsoft Office Professional 2007 has been successfully installed."
[Close]
4. Also run the "SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe to add "Save As PDF" to MSOffice 2007.
Microsoft Office 2007 can only "print" to PDF and not "Save as PDF"
unless you add this tool.
Name: SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe
Size: 956344 bytes (933 KiB)
SHA256: 32769F304991D8D5836D9AFADF20DB1FBAF6876F29E5FEB0D1 9C5B806A67441D
2007 Microsoft Office Add-in: Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7
5. The installer doesn't create any desktop shortcuts so you need
to put manually them in your taskbar menu C:\data\menu\editor\msoffice\
C:\app\editor\suite\msoffice\Office12\WINWORD.EXE
C:\app\editor\suite\msoffice\Office12\EXCEL.EXE
C:\app\editor\suite\msoffice\Office12\POWERPNT.EXE
C:\app\editor\suite\msoffice\Office12\ORGCHART.EXE
6. When you run any MS Office 2007 app, it brings up the Activation Wizard.
It says if you don't activate, you can run 24 more times and that's it.
If you choose to activate by telephone, it gives you this Installation Code
053633-428156-172221-685512-612944-854365-191614-758326-985554
But then it says:
Telephone Activation is no longer supported for your product.
(I also entered the old activation codes from a while ago but they didn't work.)
It says to enter your confirmation code but you can't get that by phone.
So the only thing you an do is activate over the Internet, which works fine.
"Thank You. Your copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is activated"
7. I would remove the username from the documents:
Excel:Flag Excel Options Popular User name: . [OK]
PowerPoint:Flag PowerPoint Options Popular User Name: . Initials . [OK]
Word:Flag Word Options Popular User Name: . Initials . [OK]
8. I would archive the C:\MSOCache folder somewhere as a zip file (just in case).
Then I would delete C:\MSOCache because it clutters up the root filesystem.
9. And, I would remove the crap MS added to the right-click context menu.
New Microsoft Office Word Document
New Microsoft Office PowerPoint Presentation
New Microsoft Office Excel Workbook
All I ever want in my right-click context menu is:
a. New Folder
b. New Shortcut
c. New Text Document (with a default name that I set in the registry)
HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Exp lorer\NamingTemplates
Create a new string value subkey:
"ShortcutNameTemplate"="\"%s.lnk\""
"RenameNameTemplate"="readme"
To disable unwanted right-click-new menu entries,
start Nirsoft ShellMenuNew.exe, & right click on the menu items
you don't want to see, and select "disable" in the Nirsoft app.
https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shell_menu_new.html
That's pretty much how I installed MS Office 2007 Pro in August 2020.
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