Excel Trial?

Cyclone · Post by **Cyclone** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 9:32 pm

Hi, I have microsoft office but not excel. I searched for a trial and came across this page but the download link doesn't work. Does anyone have a mirror or alternative download site? Thanks

http://us7.trymicrosoftoffice.com/produ ... ture=en-US

Cyclone · Post by **Cyclone** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:40 pm

figured it out. That was the USA site so since i'm canadian it doesn't like me. lol... found the canadian link though

Duper · Post by **Duper** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 11:20 pm

Try Open Office for all intensive purposes, it does everything that MS Office suite does and for free.

Most of the commands are the some of them are in slightly different places.

Cyclone · Post by **Cyclone** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:29 am

does it support excel files? I need excel for a calendar template.

The office trial instalation files don't seem to work. I downloaded 2 files from microsoft's site named X12-30196.exe and X13-11296.exe. they both give me errors when i double click them.

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:49 am

For all intensive purposes

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 7:59 am

OpenOffice supports Excel, as do Gnumeric (which I prefer, if for no other reason than it doesn't require Java) and Numbers (obviously not an option if you're not running on a Mac).

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:52 am

i'd go for open office too. I think the trial installs need BITS service running.

tho, what kind of calender template are you planning on making?

Cyclone · Post by **Cyclone** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 11:44 am

Thanks for the suggestions. I tried both OpenOffice and Gnumeric but both don't work with the excel template I have. Openoffice gives me a script error and Gnumeric doesn't give me errors but its glitchy and doesn't work properly.

http://www.vertex42.com/ExcelTemplates/ ... plate.html

So what do I do with the install files of microsoft office? I just need the trial for christmas. 60 days is long enough for what i need.

Thanks.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 12:46 pm

if you are planning to use this to keep appointments and stuff, an excel template is the worst thing to use.

Something like Sunbird or Outlook would be much better solutions.

Cyclone · Post by **Cyclone** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 1:07 pm

Sorry should have said what I was using it for.

I am making a photo calendar which I will be printing out. I want a template that is clean looking, has canadian holidays, and the smaller version of next month's dates like the one in that excel template I posted.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:19 pm

SmartDraw

Or ... a Google search for 'calendar program' is your friend.