microsoft 60 day trial is up

[maxxmistress]

i bought a computer and it came w/ microsoft office 2003. Now the trial is up and i need 25 charachter product key code or need to buy it. I can't afford but $20 right now. Is there any secret to getting office downloaded 4 good? Im new 2 all this shiznit. PLEASE HELP i have 5 days of backed up paper work that i need to enter. Thanks so much...Corinne in Los Angeles

 

[Adywebb]

Sorry Corinne, you will have to pay up to continue using it - we do not advocate the illegal bypassing of activations here

 

[maxxmistress]

What about legal.....I mean, if I were to go to someones office, would I be able to use theirs on my computer (download their code & cd)?

 

[Adywebb]

If you have someone with a multi-licence corporate edition then it would be OK

 

[ChristopherP]

Hmm this is a touchy subject - you can get a Student/teacher edition for about $120 or so (its about £80 here, i dont know what the rate is) but you can't hack it or anything - or at least talk about that here i'm afraid.

You could try Openoffice - its just the same as office 2003 pro realy, and its 100% open source which to you and i means FREE

have a look here: http://www.openoffice.org/

 

[Ian]

i bought a computer and it came w/ microsoft office 2003. Now the trial is up and i need 25 charachter product key code or need to buy it. I can't afford but $20 right now. Is there any secret to getting office downloaded 4 good? Im new 2 all this shiznit. PLEASE HELP i have 5 days of backed up paper work that i need to enter. Thanks so much...Corinne in Los Angeles

Unfortunatly, if we can't afford something we can't have it - it's the way of the world. Talk about obtaining illegal software is also not permitted on this forum, for the very fact it is illegal.

As Chris has already said, download OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) as that is a free alternative that will do everything you want.

 

[floppybootstomp]

And Open Office will recognise your saved MS files, which is worth pointing out I think.