Apparently the problem was a pre-installed full, purchased version of MS
Office -- not a trial program. Crazy, huh?

Barbara

"Carrie" wrote:

I don't know what this is, because I didn't know there were trial versions
of Office.

But, I know from using other trial versions, some (a lot) only let you have
one trial. If you try and put it in again, it has set a reg key or
something, that tells it and doesn't let it go in again.

Maybe if you wiped the hardrive and reinstalled Windows, you could
again. And, I don't know if this applies to this problem of installing trial
versions and activating them.

~ Carrie


"B Bigham" wrote in message
news
Jennifer ...

I was the person who originally posted this message and I never did get
the
trial to work. The only thing I found out was that it *might* have been
due
to having had installed a previous version of the software (or some
version
of Microsoft Office).

Microsoft never responded to my request for support and I finally just
gave
up and got a copy of a program called Page Plus ... and it seemed pretty
good
although I ended just farming the project out to my typesetter instead!!

I wonder how many sales Microsoft lost by failing to provide help for
people
who wanted to buy their product but couldn't activate the trial?

Anyway ... .good luck!

Barbara

"jennifer" wrote:

i just downloaded my trial of microsoft and i cant activate
either...when i
click on "I want to activate the software over the internet" it
saids..."The
activation wizard is unable to find a connection to the internet. Please
make
sure that your connection is working properly and then retry in a few
minutes." but when i check to see if my internet connection is working
it's
working fine.. i can even "connect to microsoft office online" on one of
the
programs (which i cant even use because i havent activated it) so what
could
possibly be the problem!!!!!! if i could please get a response ASAP
because i
need this for a school project as well!