microsoft office home and student 2007 help?

Question

just borrowed my friends disk (licensed for 3 pc's) and the installation went without a hitch, and i have office on my pc. however i unable to download/view powerpoint, word, excel documents from my university portal. any one know why?

Answer 1

License says it's for up to "three family members", you are violating the EULA.

Try the free, and M$-Office compatible, Open Office instead, from:

Included: Writer (like Word), Calc (Excel), Impress (PowerPoint), Base (Access), Draw (M$-Paint) and Math

Just make sure that if you want others to be able to view the documents using M$-Office Word, for example, save them using "Save as..." in .doc format, instead of the default .odt format.

Or use the built-in PDF creation feature.

http://www.openoffice.org