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  #151  
Old June 11th 19, 05:28 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.computer.workshop,free.spam
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  #152  
Old June 11th 19, 06:29 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

In message , ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ
writes:
Shadow wrote:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:27:57 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

And then he went to the canonical location for Microsoft Office 2007 Pro,
which he said is a public address on the "wayback"
machine that is for anyone to use (but I redacted a few bits just in case I
understood him wrong).



http://web.archive.org/web/20120111x...l.digitalriver
content.net/msoffice/pub/X12-30196/X12-30196.exe


Hopeless, no resume and all downloads stop after 100-200MB

Looks like he installed the original (more) buggy 2007
version.

The link worked fine in IE, Edge, and SeaMonkey


Fine for me too, in Firefox [27]. (It didn't know how big it was going
to be until it had got it; maybe that's what upset the other browsers?)

X12-30196.exe from the above link
388 MB or 397,472 KB
Serial No. 61469ecb000400000065
Digital Signature Oct. 2006 indicates the RTM version(which would
require SP3 to bring up to date).
O2K7 SP3 =
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27838

However, _that_ link did _not_ work for me: gave a 404 - a graphic of a
helicopter, with the text "We're sorry, this download is no longer
available.

Perhaps one of the following links will help you find what you
need.", followed rather cheekily by links to Windows 10, Office 365, ...

Do you have a link to SP3 (or 27838 or whatever)?
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  #153  
Old June 11th 19, 10:07 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in theyear 2018

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ
writes:
Shadow wrote:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:27:57 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

And then he went to the canonical location for Microsoft Office 2007
Pro,
which he said is a public address on the "wayback"
machine that is for anyone to use (but I redacted a few bits just in
case I
understood him wrong).


http://web.archive.org/web/20120111x...l.digitalriver
content.net/msoffice/pub/X12-30196/X12-30196.exe

Hopeless, no resume and all downloads stop after 100-200MB

Looks like he installed the original (more) buggy 2007
version.

The link worked fine in IE, Edge, and SeaMonkey


Fine for me too, in Firefox [27]. (It didn't know how big it was going
to be until it had got it; maybe that's what upset the other browsers?)

X12-30196.exe from the above link
388 MB or 397,472 KB
Serial No. 61469ecb000400000065
Digital Signature Oct. 2006 indicates the RTM version(which would
require SP3 to bring up to date).
O2K7 SP3 =
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27838

However, _that_ link did _not_ work for me: gave a 404 - a graphic of a
helicopter, with the text "We're sorry, this download is no longer
available.

Perhaps one of the following links will help you find what you
need.", followed rather cheekily by links to Windows 10, Office 365, ...

Do you have a link to SP3 (or 27838 or whatever)?


If you wanted Office 2007 Sp3, you would investigate
various versions of WsusOffline downloader (just for
the link content it could generate, the download
probably wouldn't work). Or perhaps Heidoc would
list it. I think as time goes by, Heidoc prunes out
the content which is no longer available.

And just because it's on archive.org, doesn't always mean
the file is wired up. Sometimes archive.org disconnects these,
because it's burning up too much bandwidth. It's not always
a MSFT request that causes their removal.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121101....aspx?id=27838

office2007sp3-kb2526086-fullfile-en-us.exe 351.9 MB

This appears to be the corresponding direct link it
threatened to use. I'm really really surprised the
"wiring" on this download wasn't broken :-) Microsoft
breaks a lot of their stuff using their various
link shortener thingies (and of course they do that
so archive.org won't work for jobs like this).

https://web.archive.org/web/20130206...file-en-us.exe

In the past, some of the archive.org files were one
byte short of a full download. But they eventually
figured that out. If you run SHA1 or the like on the
resultant download, you can google the SHA1 value
and see if anyone makes reference to the "official
value of the checksum".

Paul
  #154  
Old June 12th 19, 12:00 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

In message , Paul
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , ...w¡ñ§±¤ñ
writes:
Shadow wrote:
On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:27:57 -0800, ultred ragnusen
wrote:

[]
http://web.archive.org/web/20120111x...l.digitalriver
content.net/msoffice/pub/X12-30196/X12-30196.exe

[]
The link worked fine in IE, Edge, and SeaMonkey

Fine for me too, in Firefox [27]. (It didn't know how big it was
going to be until it had got it; maybe that's what upset the other
browsers?)

X12-30196.exe from the above link
388 MB or 397,472 KB
Serial No. 61469ecb000400000065
Digital Signature Oct. 2006 indicates the RTM version(which would
require SP3 to bring up to date).
O2K7 SP3 =
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27838

However, _that_ link did _not_ work for me: gave a 404 - a graphic of

[]
Do you have a link to SP3 (or 27838 or whatever)?


If you wanted Office 2007 Sp3, you would investigate
various versions of WsusOffline downloader (just for
the link content it could generate, the download
probably wouldn't work). Or perhaps Heidoc would
list it. I think as time goes by, Heidoc prunes out
the content which is no longer available.

And just because it's on archive.org, doesn't always mean
the file is wired up. Sometimes archive.org disconnects these,
because it's burning up too much bandwidth. It's not always
a MSFT request that causes their removal.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121101...rosoft.com/en-
us/download/details.aspx?id=27838

office2007sp3-kb2526086-fullfile-en-us.exe 351.9 MB

This appears to be the corresponding direct link it
threatened to use. I'm really really surprised the
"wiring" on this download wasn't broken :-) Microsoft


Indeed; I didn't expect a big download like that to work, as as you say
it's loading archive's servers.

I'm puzzled why a service pack for a 400M Office is itself 350M; you'd
have thought it would be less bother to just release the patched
version, rather than make people download 760M!
[]
https://web.archive.org/web/20130206....microsoft.com
/download/2/2/A/22AA9422-C45D-46FA-808F-179A1BEBB2A7/office2007sp3-kb252
6086-fullfile-en-us.exe

[]
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  #155  
Old June 12th 19, 03:38 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in theyear 2018

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Indeed; I didn't expect a big download like that to work, as as you say
it's loading archive's servers.

I'm puzzled why a service pack for a 400M Office is itself 350M; you'd
have thought it would be less bother to just release the patched
version, rather than make people download 760M!


With downloads, you never know what you got, until you test it.

I've seen some cases, where what you might assume was a Service Pack,
was in fact a full installer, just with a goofy file name.

Paul
  #156  
Old April 5th 20, 10:29 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

In response to what Paul wrote :

With downloads, you never know what you got, until you test it.
I've seen some cases, where what you might assume was a Service Pack,
was in fact a full installer, just with a goofy file name.


UPDATE:

Hi Paul,

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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  #157  
Old August 28th 20, 03:47 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

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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  #158  
Old August 28th 20, 05:29 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Ant[_3_]
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

In alt.windows7.general Arlen Holder wrote:
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.


That's a lot of work. I didn't have to use any of these with my retail
CD a few years ago for my decade old, clean installed updated 64-bit W7
HPE SP1 PC (not sure if W10 will be OK?).
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Old August 28th 20, 05:30 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in theyear 2018

On 28/08/2020 05:29, Ant wrote:
In alt.windows7.general Arlen wrote:
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.


That's a lot of work. I didn't have to use any of these with my retail
CD a few years ago for my decade old, clean installed updated 64-bit W7
HPE SP1 PC (not sure if W10 will be OK?).


I've still got an Office 2007 DVD from which I installed it on W10. But
since it's no longer supported, I haven't been able to get any updates.
I've also no longer got the Save as PDF option - but maybe the previous
post gives a clue for that. I'll have a look!
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  #160  
Old August 29th 20, 02:52 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 17:30:41 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:

I've still got an Office 2007 DVD from which I installed it on W10. But
since it's no longer supported, I haven't been able to get any updates.
I've also no longer got the Save as PDF option - but maybe the previous
post gives a clue for that. I'll have a look!


Hi Roger Mills,

Even though Office 2007 isn't supported, I reported that Microsoft
_installed_ it (via remote access) for me _after_ the 2018 cutoff date.

I simply called them, and told them the key, and they asked for permission
to remotely install it, and they installed it on my desktop for me.

I don't know if they _still_ do that, but the fact it's not supported is,
to me, meaningless in all manners since I don't _need_ anything more than
what was already in Office 2007 anyway.

The only thing I needed that wasn't in Office 2007 was the SaveAsPdf which
I obtained, at the time, from he
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7

Just run the SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe after installing Office 2007.
Name: SaveAsPDFandXPS.exe
Size: 956344 bytes (933 KiB)
SHA256: 32769F304991D8D5836D9AFADF20DB1FBAF6876F29E5FEB0D1 9C5B806A67441D

BTW, here are the URLs from the thread of 2018, which I found via a
dejagoogle search just now for you:
BTW, these seem to be the URLs given, so far, for the Office 2007 Pro iso.

1. From Microsoft, but didn't work for Microsoft or for me.
http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/01/209774629-10300055--NOA//office2010/X16-69453.exe

2. From Microsoft, and which is what they used, but no longer works for me.
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/01/32000519-3082940-O12SBATR-NOA/msoffice/pub/X12-30283/X12-30283.exe

3. I don't remember who posted this link:
http://web.archive.org/web/20120111100736/http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msoffice/pub/X12-30196/X12-30196.exe

4. From Shadow (this is what I installed in 2020 but I had it already):
http://msassist.com/files/MSOffice/2007/Pro/X16-69453.exe

5. From Paul:
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msoffice/pub/X12-30196/X12-30196.exe

I currently have both the X12 and X16 in my software archives:
Name: X12-30196.exe
Size: 407010384 bytes (388 MiB)
SHA256: 87542421E545C2F52416DC6216E98BB13ADB425424744EDB8B 2C667619D27C68

Name: X16-69453.exe
Size: 420496200 bytes (401 MiB)
SHA256: EF7A104E2CD4A75B5EF1CBBDC7D0F51B26DDEEFFF2BF0C9CF7 3844FC0C5D76D7
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  #161  
Old August 29th 20, 05:13 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Roger Mills wrote:
....
That's pretty much how I installed MS Office 2007 Pro in August 2020.


That's a lot of work. I didn't have to use any of these with my retail
DVD a few years ago for my decade old, clean installed updated 64-bit W7
HPE SP1 PC (not sure if W10 will be OK?).


I've still got an Office 2007 DVD from which I installed it on W10. But
since it's no longer supported, I haven't been able to get any updates.
I've also no longer got the Save as PDF option - but maybe the previous
post gives a clue for that. I'll have a look!


Wait. Windows Updates stopped offering Office 2007 updates? Aw. I wonder
if it stopped in 64-bit W7 too. I can't check since I already have all
the updates. I know its online help doesn't work.
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Old August 30th 20, 01:12 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Roger Mills[_2_]
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in theyear 2018

On 29/08/2020 05:13, Ant wrote:
In microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Roger wrote:
...
That's pretty much how I installed MS Office 2007 Pro in August 2020.

That's a lot of work. I didn't have to use any of these with my retail
DVD a few years ago for my decade old, clean installed updated 64-bit W7
HPE SP1 PC (not sure if W10 will be OK?).


I've still got an Office 2007 DVD from which I installed it on W10. But
since it's no longer supported, I haven't been able to get any updates.
I've also no longer got the Save as PDF option - but maybe the previous
post gives a clue for that. I'll have a look!


Wait. Windows Updates stopped offering Office 2007 updates? Aw. I wonder
if it stopped in 64-bit W7 too. I can't check since I already have all
the updates. I know its online help doesn't work.


My W7 machines on which I installed Office 2007 years ago have received
lots of security updates and bug fixes. Since it's no longer supported,
the version recently installed on W10 hasn't had *any* updates.
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  #163  
Old August 30th 20, 09:03 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 13:12:59 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:

My W7 machines on which I installed Office 2007 years ago have received
lots of security updates and bug fixes. Since it's no longer supported,
the version recently installed on W10 hasn't had *any* updates.


While I don't disagree Office 2007 isn't likely updated, that's almost like
worrying that a 2007 vehicle hasn't had any updates from the manufacturer.

Why does it matter?

Like a 2007 vehicle, it works just as well in 2020 as it did in 2007, and,
in actuality, just as with a 2007 vehicle, there's nothing but MARKETING
changes (e.g., the exterior GUI changes a lot) between the old & the new.

But maybe you see things differently than I do (I'm a home user, btw),
where a corporate user would see things differently, I'm sure.

Maybe you're worried about viruses?
o Is that a realistic threat?

Dunno. I don't use AV programs and, to my knowledge, I haven't had a virus
in, oh, probably decades (in the beginning I _did_ get them, but that was
in the floppy disk days - then I used all the freeware AV programs for
years, but they just slowed down the system).

In the end, I simply gave up on all that (although to this day I don't know
what the heck Windows Defender is doing in terms of AV protection).

To better get at why you lament that Office 2007 is no longer updated... I
need to ask what it is that you want them to update.

Is it the functionality or the security that you're worried about?
o What functionality do you need that is in new Office but not old Office?
o What security is it that you're worried about in home use of Office docs?
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Old August 30th 20, 09:35 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in the year 2018

On Fri, 28 Aug 2020 23:13:46 -0500, Ant wrote:

Wait. Windows Updates stopped offering Office 2007 updates? Aw. I wonder
if it stopped in 64-bit W7 too. I can't check since I already have all
the updates. I know its online help doesn't work.


Hi Ant,

I usually see you over in the Apple newsgroups... good to see you here.

I am faithfully trying to figure out why someone would care about
'updating' Office 2007, where I can only think of, offhand, two reasons,
neither of which is a worry for me (as a home user) but maybe for others?
1. security fixes
2. functionality improvements

As for functionality improvements, I asked long ago that basic question:
o What useful functionality is in the newer Microsoft Office that isn't already in the older MSOffice 2007 Pro?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/sKGer09EakA

As for security improvements, I asked, just now, this related question:
o Do you use the native default Windows 10 Windows Defender as your sole security/av protection?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.comp.microsoft.windows/KFoFnBuoaag

In my humble opinion, almost nothing improves appreciably over time,
whether that's a program like Super or CCleaner that starts out well and
then goes bad over time, or if it's the operating system itself:
o What can you do on Windows 10 that you can't do on Windows XP or Windows 7?
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/fJBY472ds3E

Given it's likely not functionality, then it's perhaps security?
o But what security is in Office latest that's not in Office 2007 then?
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Old August 30th 20, 11:13 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,alt.windows7.general,alt.comp.microsoft.windows
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Default SOLVED: How to download an ISO image for Office 2007 Pro in theyear 2018

On 30/08/2020 21:03, Arlen Holder wrote:
On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 13:12:59 +0100, Roger Mills wrote:

My W7 machines on which I installed Office 2007 years ago have received
lots of security updates and bug fixes. Since it's no longer supported,
the version recently installed on W10 hasn't had *any* updates.




To better get at why you lament that Office 2007 is no longer updated... I
need to ask what it is that you want them to update.

Is it the functionality or the security that you're worried about?
o What functionality do you need that is in new Office but not old Office?
o What security is it that you're worried about in home use of Office docs?


Mainly security. Some of the security patches were allegedly to fix
vulnerabilities which may allow your system to be hacked - but I don't
know how real they were.
I have a feeling that some bugs were identified and fixed, but can't
remember what they were. I'm not interested in additional functionality.

But I would like to be able to save as PDF. I'm hoping the link you
cited will fix that, but I'm currently away from my W10 system for a few
days so can't test that at the moment.
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