Office 12 Installing Now

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November 20th, 2005, 06:58 AM
Big Booger

Office 12 Installing Now

Well I got my hands on office 12 beta release! And now I am installing it. So far so good.

The installer is a bit different from previous releases. In it there are some tabs and you can select different items. Whereas before you'd be walked through those steps one at a time.

Now you have installer option tabs where you can input your name, the options you want to install, and if you want office to send out feedback and so on to Microsoft's servers (AKA the SPYWARE OF OFFICE), and last because I have Office 2003 installed, there are some upgrade options in another tab.

After that, you click install and away you go.

http://www.techzonez.com/boogspics/msoffice12.JPG

Then after a few minutes you are prompted by the check for updates window:

http://www.techzonez.com/boogspics/update_check.JPG

When you go to launch in the programs menu, you'll notice the name change. In the image below you see office 2003 and office 12. This is because I left the other files intact while I installed office 12 on a second hard disk.

http://www.techzonez.com/boogspics/office12programs.JPG

And after opening each program, you will see some gui changes, layout changes and so on. It's looking more tuned toward the Vista look as several sites have already posted. Here are access, excel, infopath, powerpoint, publisher and word.

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Enjoy!

Images resized to nearly Board regulation.:piss:
November 20th, 2005, 07:42 AM
Conan

Nice Boogs!:)
November 20th, 2005, 08:46 AM
rohitk89

Lovely screenshots. No FrontPage?
November 20th, 2005, 09:57 AM
Big Booger

Quote:

Originally Posted by rohitk89

Lovely screenshots. No FrontPage?

Who the hell uses that? :assshake:
November 20th, 2005, 20:42 PM
Denyse

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Booger

Who the hell uses that? :assshake:

I "in the hell" DO !
November 21st, 2005, 04:14 AM
Big Booger

Quote:

Originally Posted by Denyse

I "in the hell" DO !

Why when you can use Dreamweaver or Adobe or some other more frequently updated solution?
November 21st, 2005, 05:21 AM
Denyse

I like it.
November 21st, 2005, 06:26 AM
rohitk89

Quote:

Who the hell uses that?

Its easier to use than Dreamweaver (for someone who's grown up using MS Office). Plus there were talks of it being more standards compliant and generating cleaner code.
November 22nd, 2005, 04:06 AM
Big Booger

Are any of you using Office 12? If so, perhaps you can install the new frontpage. I wonder if it is updated?
November 22nd, 2005, 04:37 AM
Denyse

I also got the "little fellow" Genius; to work in the new version... had I not, it would have been gone for sure.
November 22nd, 2005, 11:43 AM
cash_site

Definitely looks good BB, a nice GUI and extra functions seem to be a worth while upgrade rather than the 2000->XP update ;)
November 23rd, 2005, 03:51 AM
Big Booger

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1888060,00.asp

Here's a pretty good review with tons of screenshots.
November 24th, 2005, 16:01 PM
piaqt

I installed office 12. And every time I tried to use Word12, BSOD.

btw: frontpage is available as a separate download from the ms beta office 12 site.
November 25th, 2005, 17:25 PM
piaqt

Quote:

Originally Posted by big booger

When you go to launch in the programs menu, you'll notice the name change. In the image below you see office 2003 and office 12. This is because I left the other files intact while I installed office 12 on a second hard disk.

I have only 1 hard disk. How do I create a new drive on the same disk? I tried the kb's suggestions, but keep getting cannot create from diskpart, and I can't access the new drive wizard from w/in computer management.
November 26th, 2005, 02:08 AM
Big Booger

http://www.powerquest.com/home_homeo...m80/index.html

Once installed, you can create a new partition from the empty space. It will only change the disk partitions after rebooting. ONce rebooting takes place, partition magic runs before the OS boots. It partitions the drive and then boots the OS.

THen you should have 2 partitions, and from there you can install Office 12.
November 26th, 2005, 16:03 PM
piaqt

I just checked the techiez toolkit. It's in there. Thanks, boogs.
November 26th, 2005, 17:56 PM
rik

Quote:

Originally Posted by Denyse

I like it.

Good answer :D
February 28th, 2006, 02:03 AM
Denyse

Since I have been "out of town" -- did they issue the refresh for Office 2007 yet ?
February 28th, 2006, 13:51 PM
Big Booger

I don't think so... but I have been rather busy so I dunno.
March 3rd, 2006, 06:06 AM
Denyse

Seems a lot of people are complaining that their Beta's have stopped working all of a sudden; and they get a message that their Beta Expired.

Mine still is running just fine. I tried two complicated worksheets in Excel, a long manuscript in Word and a couple of PowerPoint projects and nothing was not working as it was last month.

However, NOW I am really in a jam!

I just went back to the site, just to look to see if the refresh is available (I look once a day). And I GOT this message on my screen...

==============================================================
InActive Account

You are no longer an Active User on the Microsoft Beta System.
==============================================================

NOW... HOW do I get the stupid refresh ?

This is the kinda of stuff that really get's my redhair into a full flame!

And those jerks at Microsoft, wonder why people get so ticked off at their products. Here, I am testing their product for FREE, and for no reason what so ever, I am dropped from the program. It just is not fair.

I wonder how many other people they screwed in the last few days!

HELP!
March 5th, 2006, 12:33 PM
joshsiao

Nice! The new interface may need getting used to all over again but can't wait for it come out!

Another thing, is it RAM hungry?
March 6th, 2006, 01:20 AM
piaqt

@josh: Of course it's RAM-hungry.
@denyse: There is no refresh as yet. As to login problems, try deleting your cookies and clearing your cache. MS is notorious for scripting problems.

Quote:

To report technical problems, report bugs or send us feature requests for Microsoft Beta please send e-mail to [email protected].

From the horse's ....well, I was gonna say mouth, but ass seems more apropos.
March 10th, 2006, 20:51 PM
Denyse

The new refresh will be out next week. And it is NO longer Office 12. It is now officially Office 2007

More great news. The refresh can NOT be installed over the Pre-Beta. The pre-beta has to be removed first.

And more good news, MicroSHAFT also has said the fully public beta will also have to be a fresh install not over the refresh that comes out next week.

FUN FUN FUN!
March 10th, 2006, 22:39 PM
rik

Quote:

Originally Posted by Denyse

"MicroSHAFT"

No need to call Big Booger names...

:rolleyes:
March 11th, 2006, 01:27 AM
piaqt

...or impugn his manhood.
March 11th, 2006, 03:54 AM
Big Booger

Quote:

Originally Posted by rik

No need to call Big Booger names...

:rolleyes:

She made one mistake in spelling had she been writing about me: mAcroshaft.

:D
March 11th, 2006, 03:56 AM
Big Booger

Quote:

Originally Posted by piaqt

From the horse's ....well, I was gonna say mouth, but ass seems more apropos.

Did someone say "Horse's Ass" ?
March 21st, 2006, 01:19 AM
Denyse

Quote:

Originally Posted by Big Booger

Did someone say "Horse's Ass" ?

Why? Who came in?
March 21st, 2006, 03:18 AM
Big Booger

I will tell you that the new interface for the new office takes some getting used to... so you might want to practice with it... I kind of don't like how it is laid out... it seems more complicated at first. But once you get the hang of it, it is not that bad... I think when you mess with an interface too much you can potentially make it a bad product.

Also it saves the documents in a new format .docx by default... well that won't open in any other Office suite 2003-97... to save as a file format that will open in the other word versions, you have to use the save as and select the .doc format.

Just two of my gripes.
March 21st, 2006, 15:18 PM
piaqt

Does anyone know where I can get a list of ALL the registry entries that 12b1 created? I can't install tr1 because it keeps telling me to uninstall the previous version. Problem is, the previous version install failed, so I have to do this manually.
March 21st, 2006, 15:20 PM
rik

What about compatability with Open Office BB?
March 21st, 2006, 15:20 PM
Big Booger

Quote:

Originally Posted by piaqt

Does anyone know where I can get a list of ALL the registry entries that 12b1 created? I can't install tr1 because it keeps telling me to uninstall the previous version. Problem is, the previous version install failed, so I have to do this manually.

system restore should solve that.
March 21st, 2006, 15:24 PM
Big Booger

Quote:

Originally Posted by rik

What about compatability with Open Office BB?

Good question. I dunno. I wonder if a .docx file can be opened in Open Office... I think not.

UPDATE:

I just tried and it was a failure... .docx as for now isn't compatible with OO 2.0.2
April 14th, 2006, 14:59 PM
adeydas

Where can I get it?
May 15th, 2006, 19:18 PM
mik_the_virgo

Expired Beta

I've been hearing a lot about betas expiring suddenly. Lo and behold, the same thing happened to me today, just after installing it.

TO make a long story short, after 5 hours of ridiculousness, I realized the install had bounced my clock ahead to 2070. Just a heads up!

kim