Get Your Office 2007 Beta 2 Today!

Today’s the big day--I'm so pleased to announce that as of right now, you can download Office 2007 Beta 2 from the Office preview site at https://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/.

Click the button marked “Try it!” and enter a few pieces of information, and you’re on your way. I tried it out and was downloading in about 3 minutes from the time I clicked the button. (Whoops, I hope I didn’t take someone’s spot…)

The best way to experience the new user interface is simply to try it. No matter what you think of the screenshots you’ve seen or what I’ve written here, consider giving it a test drive for a few weeks. I hope you won’t want to go back to your current version of Office.

Beta 2 isn’t perfect, but it’s proven a great platform for my day-to-day work over the last month. In fact, last weekend I upgraded my home computer to Windows Vista Beta 2 + Office 2007 Beta 2, and I’m writing this post right now using both of them.

Go get it--and spread the word.

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Downloading it now. :-)
  
  Been waiting for almost a year now, looking forward to finally trying it!
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  How do i install it WITHOUT using the SmartSource software? it wont authenticate User Profile :S (Jams at 75%)
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Stick with it, William. Mine paused at 75% for a few minutes, but eventually got there. :)
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  This version will not work on a Terminal Server - Grrrr.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Jensen, I love most of the work you guys do, but do me a favor, find the person responsible for the trial download experience and shoot them. I've had to enter my email address at least 6 times, including 3 times after I verified it. And what next, a downloader for the configurator of the transmogrifier of the installer of the Office Suite?
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Thansk Mal for your words of reassurance - i waited (a good 10 minutes) and it worked... :D. DONT GIVE UP TOO EARLY! For those on networks, you can set up proxy stuff once you get past all the other stages. Quite frankly, i'd have prefered the OPTION to download without this app.. (and yes, NET 1.1 -i have 2 so that's silly - alhtough i didnt restart after teh install, and it's worked anyway).
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Is there alternate download link? Maybe provide it in msdn subscription downloads.
  
  The link provided above gives me:
  An unknown error occurred while processing your request. This is most likely due to a connection failure. Please try again.
  
  That's after I go thru all the steps and fill out all the info. Tried several time on different computers.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Is anyone else having problems downloading the beta? I just get 'Unknown Error' every time I try.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Andrew + Qingzi - it isn't just you
  
  I've tried at least 4 times and gotten the same error all four times.
  
  I'll 2nd the "find the person responsible for the trial download experience and shoot them" comment from above.
  Only two of the four times so far has it asked me to confirm the same info.  The most recent time it gave me the "rate yourself (1-9)" page which I haven't seen in at least a year.  (credit for properly maintaining my answers though)
  
  Oh well, I'm going camping this weekend anyway - I'll try again early next week.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Yeah, I get the 'Unknown Error' (An unknown error occurred while processing your request. This is most likely due to a connection failure. Please try again.) too. I've tried 6 times... If it helps, my browser is IE 7, I live in the US, and I have a Wireless connection...
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  To get around the download manager, just right-click on the product name and choose savce target as on the screen that shows yout the product keys.
  
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  I'm also trying to download winfx stuff, and half of the links bring me to "download not available" page.
  Does anyone have correct link to Windows SDK for WinFX?
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  P.S.
  
  I would respect you for a "server too busy" error; in fact it would be LESS annoying (because at least it is understandable)
  
  The "unknown error" is just sloppy IMHO
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  on 7th attempt --- unable to establish a network connection --- the Configuration options have left me puzzled --- wish we had the good old fashioned download option
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  The ability to run under a Terminal Server seems to be controlled by which particualar License Key you use. I used the one I got from the Beta site (volume license key) and that DID work under terminal services.
  
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Sorry you guys are having so many problems with the download process.
  
  Unfortunately, I didn't have anything to do with the download process, so I don't know much about the specific errors you're seeing.
  
  I suspect this must be some technology microsoft.com uses for all kinds of downloads... I'm in the process of trying to find someone to forward the feedback to.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Initial impressions:
  
  1) The download process is painfully cumbersome!
  
  2) The "fade effect" is not as pronounced, but it's still possible to produce streaks of glowing buttons by mousing around of the ribbon.  I really really wish there were a way to turn the fade-on/fade-off completely OFF!
  
  3) Office aquired a "Plus"... So I guess the full name of Words is now: Microsoft Office Word 2007 Profession Plus Beta 2.  Or maybe it's Microsoft Office Profession Plus 2007 Word Beta 2?  Or how about Microsoft Word Professional 2 Office Beta Plus.  I don't know. ;-)
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  I get a Server Too Busy message. Can you guys fix this?
  
  Thanks,
  Radha
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Yet another external downloader and this one won't even install. It's failing while trying to download .NET 1.1, which is already installed. Really sloppy experience.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  PingBack from http://kingsley2.com/archives/1969/12/31/microsoft-office-2007-beta-is-out
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Another one with an "Unknown error" after answering all the unnecessary questions.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Jensen, perhaps for a new post you can elaborate as to why the Outlook interface does not have the Ribbon interface, but features within outlook (Write mail, Edit Contacts) do.
  
  After getting used to the Ribbon - I find that I HATE the old interface!!
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  I got the Unknown error too..
  
  I kept pressing refresh and finally it finished the registration and allowed me to continue.
  
  Patience people!!
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  I finally got it to download SmartSource (not so smart really), but it's failing when doing "user profile data transfer".
  What a terrible experience.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Oh even better, it's unusable in IE 7.
  
  Following the reboot, I can't even get BACK into smartsource to try redownloading the applications.
  
  This is just a STELLAR way to run a major company release.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Just to provide some balance here....
  I downloaded on my first try -- it took around 4 hours, but did not have any download problem.
  
  I am playing with it right now!!
  
  What a gem.... There are a few quirks, but the overall feeling is wonderful.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  I just tried it with Firefox and I clicked the button in the left menu ('Get the Beta') and it finally worked. It's weird that neither Office 2007 download and Windows Live Local note saving (although I fixed it with a help from a Microsoft Professional) don't work (at least for me) in Microsoft's IE 7. Why do they make websites not compatible with their own product?
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Worked fine for me in IE7.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Congrats on the teams hitting the Beta 2 milestone!  I'm glad to see all of our feedback in action, the product feels even more polished than the Beta 1TR build.  Keep up the great work.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  My congratulations!  Now if I could only get past those "server busy" errors and actually download it I'll be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor (and also provide feedback).
  
  Andrew
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  To "Explorer 5"
  
  [quote]
  Don't you folks realize that
  
  #1 this is BETA SOFTWARE
   a. You dont pay for it
   b. MS doesnt make money from it
   c. MS is probably spending thousands of dollars for the bandwidth ...
  
  #2 There are probably tens of thousands of...
  
  ...
  
  And lastly..  reeeeeeeellllllaaaaxxxxxxxxxx!
  
  [/quote]
  
  I agree with the sentiment, however...
  
  (1a) Yes I do pay for it, it cost me time
  (1b) Maybe not, but (i) they want the bugs out now and (ii) this is free buzz/publicity
  (1c) Not relevant, see a+b above
  
  (2) I would understand a 'server too busy' error, plus it would tell me not to try again immediatly - very useful to know.
  
  Relax?  Ideally sure, but not very realistic in our culture (where "our" = people reading this) when we expect to d/l it and cannot; frustration can/will cause stress :-)
  
  Jensen - no one blames you, thanks for trying to find out where to send our problems.  
  (If you do blame Jensen you haven't been paying attention to this blog... I know EXACTLY what his responsibilities are from reading it)
  
  My $0.02
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Congrats on reaching the beta 2 early!  
  
  If you're gathering feedback, I'm getting stopped at 50% by SmartSource with this message:
  
  "ERROR!
  Unable to obtain the user profile for the given user"
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  blah blah blah, "it's a beta", gimme a break. Why not give direct links to .iso files, this SmartSource thing ruined this release for good.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Congratulations to the entire team!  Beta 2 looks great!  I was able to get all 6 downloads I wanted in about an hour (maybe 1 1/2 MAX - though I was in earlier in the morning) and SmartSource worked fine though I do wish I could resize the window to see more.  There is also a way to just download the .iso or .exe files directly when you get to the screen with the product keys if you want to bypass SmartSource entirely.  Once again great job guys and I personally think it is a good rollout considering the demand there must be worldwide for this.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  It worked fine for me (luckily I started downloading it pretty early today). I think SmartSource is a better idea than just downloading a file the regular way...at least if your internet connection or computer fail for some reason, you do not lose the entire download.
  
  By the way, it is worth any wait...I don't think I am going to be able to go back to an older version.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  There are direct links to the downloads! On the page with the keys, the product names are direct links to plain-old HTTP downloads. Please learn to read!
  
  That said, this hasn't helped me. I tried installing the base Office package but the setup opened a Dr Watson error reporting dialogue (tho a setup customised one) and I couldn't commence. I redownloaded but still no joy. And this is one a XP Coporate machine with nothing special, except perhaps IE7 Beta 2.
  
  Any ideas?
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Hey guys,
  
  Thanks for the patience.  The team is aware of the problems and I've been told they're working on fixing them, as well as putting up a page to communicate current issues.
  
  Hang in there!
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Hey Jensen,
  
  Thanks for the follow-up!
  
  Tried again and it worked REALLY fast; I guess everyone else gave up, because I got Visio and Office in 12 minutes (~1.2 Mb/sec)
  
  For reference: it is just after 9 here (Eastern = +8? GMT)
  
  HTH,
    -Chris C.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Excelent job, Jensen!
  Congradulations to you and your entire team, for such a wonderfull UI!
  Thanks a trillion!!!
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Hi,
  I got the e-mail but there is no hyperlink to a site that will allow me to download the file. What did I do wrong? here's the message I got:
  
  Dear Guess:
  
  Thank you for your interest in the 2007 Microsoft Office system beta. Inside the 2007 beta you'll discover many new features and improvements, all designed to help people work more efficiently and productively than ever before. Among them are:
  
  - A more intuitive user interface
  - Better product integration
  - Improved collaboration tools
  - Enhanced security
  - And more...
  
  Bookmark the Microsoft Office system preview site - it's where you'll find the latest information about the 2007 beta. Visit the Microsoft Office system preview site and discover more today.
  
  
  Sincerely,
  
  
  Microsoft Corporation
  
  
  
  
   
  
  This message from Microsoft is an important part of a program, service or product which you or your company purchased or participate in.
  
  Legal Information.
  
  To sign up for Microsoft newsletters, receive information about our products or services, or review information youve given us, visit the Microsoft.com Web site.
  
  This communication was sent by the Microsoft Corporation
  
  
  Somebody please help me! I want to see 2007. I want to see the future!
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  I successfully downloaded and installed Beta 2!  No problems whatsoever.  Never saw any mention of "SmartSource"; not sure what that's all about.
  
  Initial impressions:
  
  1) Activation isn't working (so far).
  
  2) These color schemes need some serious work.
  
  The "Windows XP (blue)" scheme totally clashes with my XP theme, so I immediately switched to the "Windows Vista (gray)" scheme.  This scheme is far too contrasty, and therefore draws way too much attention to itself.  I'm finding it hard to focus on my work, as the UI is commanding all my attention.  The window borders, title bar, and status bar are fine in black, but all of the interior UI needs to be lightened up quite a bit so as not to contrast so harshly with the typically white working area.  Outlook is particularly bad, with it's white-text-on-black menus and heavy black dividers between the various UI panes.  As a result, these UI panes don't feel tied together ... it looks like four separate applications floating on the screen rather than four panes of a single application.
  
  I happen to be using a third-party MSStyles-based XP theme that is modeled after some iteration of Vista Aero, so other than the excessive constrast, the black scheme actually works decently in my environment.  If I were using XP's built-in Olive Green or Silver themes, though, niether Office 2007 scheme would look good.  We really need more than two choices -- or even better, the ability to customize or create our own -- or even better, Office 2007 needs to match whatever system theme is currently being used instead of doing something different.
  
  The ability to customize the colors and appearance of our UI has been standard practice since at least the Windows 3.x days.  It seems that as UIs become flashier, this ability is being increasingly watered down or eliminated entirely.  Doesn't seem like a fair trade to me.  I'd rather have a boring, Win9x-style UI that I can easily customize at least the color of than a cool, flashy UI that only comes in a handful of color schemes that I hate.
  
  Some screenshots of my desktop, with normal applications and Office 2007 for comparison:
  
  Normal applications:
  
  http://www.smugmug.com/photos/71240043-O.jpg
  
  Outlook 2007:
  
  http://www.smugmug.com/photos/71240058-O.jpg
  
  Word 2007:
  
  http://www.smugmug.com/photos/71240050-O.jpg
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Downloaded and am running it.  I sure hope it gets faster!  Opening existing Excel spreadsheets and selecting cells is sloooow.  Graph with trend lines are all mixed up (I will report this).
  
  I have a 2Ghz machine with a gig of RAM that is defragged every night and it is painful to use this.  I sure hope the final version makes me a believer!
  
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  PingBack from http://kingsley2.com/archives/2006/05/24/office-2007-a-gentle-ribbin
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  I'm having problem with activating the Beta.
  
  Error:
  "The Activation Wizard is unable to find a connect to the Internet. Please make sure your connection is working properly and retry activation in a few minutes."
  
  Any help?
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  same thing... activation not working :(
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  What's the reasoning behind the different downloading mechanism?
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Hey, I think MS is solving most of the problems while you speak, cause the download runs fine here (direct link, and a 'too busy' message when the server was full.)
  
  Anyway, my real question:
  is it possible to run both offices next to each other?
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  >>>I'm having problem with activating the Beta.
  
  >>>Error:
  "The Activation Wizard is unable to find a connect to the Internet. Please make sure your connection is working properly and retry activation in a few minutes."
  
  Same here. I'm on ADSL2+ broadband.
  
  OneNote 2007 finally activated after I clicked Activate about 10 times.
  
  No luck getting Office 2007 to activate though after about 100 attempts.
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  The activation does not work!
  Same message:
  "The Activation Wizard is unable to find a connect to the Internet. Please make sure your connection is working properly and retry activation in a few minutes."
  
  Is says I have 43 times remaining to run the applications :(
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  The activation failed
  
  I've got a message:
  
  "The Activation Wizard is unable to find a connect to the Internet. Please make sure your connection is working properly and retry activation in a few minutes."
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  Are there any hashes of the file available to check I've not got corrupt files?
• Anonymous
  May 23, 2006
  No Brutus, in fact, I am physically unable to comply with your request. I have a condition called "SpeakTheTruthPlainlyitis" and it requires me to, upon finding a problem, point out that problem in a clear, direct manner, along with the implications of that problem. It's even worse when it's an obviously bungled issue caused be a desire to make things far more complex than needed by a committee of the clueless, or confronted with the irony of someone decrying bad etiquette in a completely rude manner themselves.
  
  As of yet, there is no cure for "SpeakTheTruthPlainlyitis", or STTPI, but I assure you that Microsoft, indeed all big business, and the  politicians of the world are working feverishly to find a cure so that they may never encounter the horror of unvarnished honesty and sarcasm again.
  
  Thank you for your support.
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  > No Brutus, I am [emotionally] unable to comply with your
  > request. I have a condition called "SpeakTheTruthPlainlyitis"...
  
  Sounds more like NeedsAttention-itis
  
  > there is no cure
  
  No, time is the cure.  (i.e. most people grow out of it)
  
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  Anyone get the activation to work on Office Professional Plus?
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  Is there (will there be) a newsgroup dedicated to Office 2007 Beta issues?
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  Having read Jensen's blog about Microsoft Office 2007 over the last months I've been itching to give it a try and see what's new. At long last Beta 2 is available and I installed it this morning: First of all...
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  The activation problems (see the community boards for a sustained shriek of frustration from hundreds of people) are annoying, but I downloaded five packages in about 20 minutes with no problems, and they all seem to work great (apart from that niggling issue with activation ...). It is SO nice not to have outlook crashing on html mails.
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  I managed to get office 2007 beta up and running it looks great. Besides the problem of activation which i am sure will go away within a week, I only have one major problem so far: Most of the email I send out using a pop3 account on MS Outlook 2007 beta come out blank with no content on the other side. Is anybody else experiencing this problem?
  
  TJ
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  Just installed office 2007 beta2 and first impressions are that it looks pretty impressive.  Is there a proper route for giving feedback on this beta? Perhaps something like the "MSDN Product feedback centre"?
  
  For some reason on my setup, the options dialogs for Word, Excel, Access don't appear at all. For example, if I press the 'logo' button in Word and click on the "Word Options" button, nothing happens. No dialog, nothing! Strange.
  
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  Most people are having activation problem who downloaded the freely available verion. I see the beta testers have different VLK keys for this beta. I'm uninstalling office and will try to install it with VLK key. I think it will not ask for activation for Volume License (beta tester) key...
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  I activate Office 2007 Beta 2 by deactivating my firewall.
  
  Ps! after you hav activated Office remember to activate the firewall.
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  Which firewall are you talking about? Windows Firewall? I tried, it didnt help.
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  Ok, it's not the firewall... MS fixed the Activation thing.
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  My windows firewall was of, and i use Norton Antivirus 2006 and deactevated Auto-Protect and Protection agains Internett-worms. Then I activate office.
  
  You can check out this link :
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822519/
  
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  Ok
  
  
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
  Tried all day to activate. Once I did shut off my firewall (AVG) connected and activated within seconds. Thanks for the help!
• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 24, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  Steve, maybe the discussions went something like this:
  
  OfficeExec 1: The Windows team is replacing the word 'Start' in the Start menu with a  Windows logo.
  
  OfficeExec 2: What if we replaced our File menu with our Office logo?  And make our logo bigger than the Windows logo.  This will make our team rise in stature and Ballmer will bow to our e-penii.
  
  OfficeExec 1: Let's do it!
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  Installed and activated with no problems, however all emails I send appear fine when typing but when view in Sent and what the other person sees is completely blank!
  Anyone know how to fix it?
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  Installed and activated with no problems, however all emails I send appear fine when typing but when view in Sent and what the other person sees is completely blank!
  Anyone know how to fix it?
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  Office 2007 Beta 2 running OK. However, having problems with Outlook.
  1. Outlook Seems to freeze up.
  2.Restart it in Safe Mode and it failes to launch.
  3. Start 'Detect & Repair.'
  4. Finally starts.
  5. Get notice to download Instant Search Feature for Outlook 12.
  6. Download and try to install Instant Search and it does not load. Aborts.
  Anyone encounter this, too?
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  When I installed Office 2007 Beta 2 I tried to keep my Office 2003 intacked. However, even though I installed 2007 in a different folder, 2007 still corrupted 2003. I will uninstall 2003.
  1. How long we will be able to use Beta 2?
  2. Will we have to pay for 2007 and the updates when 2007 goes final?
  Greatly appreciate any answers. Thank you.
  Tony n MI
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  Licence only works until 1st Feb 2007, if you do not buy a licence after that point you will only have limited functionality and no updates!
  
  Anyone else having the blank emails thing?  Uninstalled and reinstalled, still exactly the same.  Uninstalled and put Outlook 2003 back on and the problem goes away.
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  Thank you for the info on the License!
  Has anyone uninstalled an older version of Office after installing 2007? My concern is that when I do an unistall of Office 2003, the uninstall may also delete some of the 2007 stuff?
  Tony n MI
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  Do anyone can fix the email blank thing?? Im trying with everything but it doesnt work
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  So far, so good on the beta.  Just a couple comments:
  
  - To be more efficient in Outlook 2007, if a user only has one signature setup, the default ribbon button should just insert the sig w/o a second click.  Right now when I click the button I get a dropdown.
  
  - While I find the overall blue theme very muted, it seems that the ribbon buttons are often very bright.  Is there a middle ground from a color scheme perspective.
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  Yep I got it, just disable the AVG antivirus plug-in and voila, I can see the incoming emails.
  
  The blank email problem disapear
• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 25, 2006
  Ok, just tried out beta 2 for the first time. I liked much of the new ui, anyway there are some issues in usability:
  
  - I could not find in the new ui how to crop a selected picture (inserted from the clipboard). The picture was selected. I would also suggest to put up a context menu after dragging the edge points of the picture with the right mouse button, which would i.e. show entries to crop or resize the picture. (like Copy or Move when dragging a file in Explorer)
  
  - I don't like the idea of having still this office menu for new, open, save, etc. Those commands should be in Tabs as well. At the start I did not even expect the symbol would do anything at least not show a menu upon clicking
  
  - Print Preview should be located in the View Tab or at least be easier to access in the Menu (currently its a sub item of print)
  
  - I could not locate something like  Insert Tab /Section Break
• Anonymous
  May 26, 2006
  I think that some antivirus dont work with this new Outlook, so try to disabel the plug-in. I can send and recive emails without problems.
• Anonymous
  May 27, 2006
  I get a setup error
  
  "Setup could not find any available products to install.  Please contact your system administrator."
• Anonymous
  May 27, 2006
  Please I need?
  sujon@usa.com
• Anonymous
  May 27, 2006
  Hello
• Anonymous
  May 27, 2006
  I was having the blank e-mail problem for just receiving e-mails. I followed Alvaro's advice and turned off the AVG plug-in and now I am able to see new incoming e-mails.
• Anonymous
  May 27, 2006
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• Anonymous
  May 27, 2006
  It's cool and useful that I can add individual functionality groups from the ribbon to the Quick Access Toolbar.  For example, I can add the Font group from the Home tab to the QAT.
  
  However, it would be even more useful if I could add entire tabs to the QAT.  For example, I'd like to add the entire Home tab to the QAT as a single icon.
  
  If I could do this, I would add each of the tabs to my QAT, hide the ribbon, and access everything from the QAT, thereby maximizing my document area and minimizing the space used by UI.  I supposed I could do essentially the same thing now by adding all of the various functionality groups from all of the ribbon tabs to the QAT, but that would take up a bunch of space on the QAT.  I might not have room for everything; especially if the window isn't maximized.
  
  And, if I could move entire ribbon tabs to the QAT, it would be cool if I could also hide the ribbon entirely -- including hiding the tab names that currently remain visible when you collapse the ribbon.  (If I've moved everything to the QAT, those names become redundant.)
• Anonymous
  May 30, 2006
  I get the same error as Allan. Has there been a resolution to this issue? I get this error after I decompress the file and try to run it from the hard drive.
  If I place the files on a CD and try to load it that way it tells me that it does not support my language. I downloaded the english version and my Windows is the english version.
• Anonymous
  June 02, 2006
  Between the removal of numerous features from Vista, obvious performance issues, and lack of new features in Office 2007 I am greatly disappointed that these flag ship titles are not up to par considering Microsoft has taken this long to release new versions.
  
  I guess if the corporate execs at MS spent more time caring about the quality of their products instead of worrying about how many lawsuits they have to settle then maybe MS customers would be more satisfied.
  
  Matt – MCSE, MCT
  
• Anonymous
  June 05, 2006

re: Get Your Office 2007 Beta 2 Today! @ Tuesday, May 23, 2006 2:03 PM
The ability to run under a Terminal Server seems to be controlled by which particualar License Key you use. I used the one I got from the Beta site (volume license key) and that DID work under terminal services.

Robert
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What do you mean? Do you have to be a member of MSDN?
Joseph

• Anonymous
  June 05, 2006
  Anyone have a key that works with Terminal services. Mine installed OK but when i run it it says its not supported to run on terminal services and then shuts down. Very annoying

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2006
  I get the blank e-mails.  Would someone please tell me what to do.  I have AVG Free version and I have disabled it but it doesnt seem to make any difference.  It seems the only way to read my e-mails is to uninstall the Beta version and load Outlook 2003.

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2006
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• Anonymous
  June 16, 2006
  It seems that after downloading Office 2007 Beta 2, my Outlook 2003 was disabled or something. Then several days after downloading Beta 2, it refused to open up, saying there was an error that kept it from locating the correct file. So I  ended up removing Beta 2 and redownloading.
  
  NOW I get the same errors, and I can't remove it from my computer anymore either because it says:
  Setup could not find any available products to install.  Please contact your system administrator.
  
  What am I suppose to do?
  
  

• Anonymous
  June 25, 2006
  The link doesn't even work anymore! Does anyone have the same problem?
  
  I have a CD key but I'm missing the link. If someone could send me a link, that'd be great.
  
  Thanks!
  
  http://download.esd.licensetech.com/Microsoft/DMMSO12B/PRO/AKAMAIFILES/OPPLUS-EN.EXE

• Anonymous
  July 04, 2006
  I have been using Office 2007 for a while without too many teething problems. Just recently, however, Outlook 2007 has stopped opening hyperlinks and I get the message:
  "Unable to open (Link). No program is registered to open this file. An OLE registration error occurred. Run setup again for the program." Just wondering if anyone else has struck this problem. Thanks.

• Anonymous
  July 05, 2006
  Just in case anyone ever drops in here I've solved the problem myself. Quite by accident, I discovered that IE was not my default browser altho it is my only browser. Making it my default browser solved the problem. Possibly something to do with me downloading IE 7.0 beta 3.
  
  Thanks.

• Anonymous
  July 06, 2006
  I CANNOT GET OUTLOOK 2003 with BCM TO OPEN! Tried uninstalling, reinstalling, updating, detect and repair....NO EMAIL! AND NO CALENDAR! AND NO CONTACT info! I'm dead! AND I feel stupid for downloading a beta in the first place!
  
  Anyone out there with answers????
  
  Christine

• Anonymous
  July 10, 2006
  hi to all any one need the office 2007 beta 2 we may deal and u may pay some money its size in self extractive folder is 440mb

• Anonymous
  July 10, 2006
  do we get a discount from microsoft for trying the better, or are they to tight?

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