Office 2007 install and Excel for commercial use

KEM

We've just purchased Office 2007 for our home computer using a student licence as the kids use the machine.

I also use Excel at home for producing spreadsheets for my work. As this is for commercial use and the student licence doesn't allow this I have also purchased an Excel upgrade (we have a version of Works on the machine which allows for the Excel upgrade) to make sure everything is legitimate.

How do I go about installing the new software? Should I do a custom install of Office and exclude Excel and install the full version when it arrives or can I install the full Office and then somehow upgrade just Excel later?

superscaper

Which version of Office 2007 did you buy? If it's the Home and Student version then that's perfectly acceptable for "commercial" purposes. Or did you buy some kind of academic license? Do any of your kids have an .ac.uk email address?

KEM

Bought Office Standard through software4students in one of the kids names - that arrived this morning.
It specifically says it is not for commercial use so I've also bought Excel upgrade from amazon (which hasn't arrived yet).
Can I upgrade to Office 2007 (including Excel) so that I can play with it before the fully licenced Excel arrives? Will I then be able to apply the full licence and if so how?

Conor_3

TBH unless you need any of the additional features, I'd not bother.

At the end of the day when you buy MS products, you buy the licence to use them. You have this licence now when it arrives.

KEM

Conor wrote: »

TBH unless you need any of the additional features, I'd not bother.

At the end of the day when you buy MS products, you buy the licence to use them. You have this licence now when it arrives.

My work involves setting up spreadsheets (working from home) for others in the office to use. As the spreadsheets could be passed on to clients I was concerned that if someone were to check they could see that my spreadsheets had been produced on a student/academic licence. As I want everything to be above board I have purchased a non student Excel upgrade and am not sure how to go about registering Excel with a new key.
(As I've been impatient I've already installed Office 2007 and am not sure if I'll need to uninstall Excel or how to get the proper licence key attributed to Excel.)

superscaper

AFAIK excel files don't have the license restrictions embedded in their attributes. It's purely a legal restriction rather than one that presents itself in the creation of files.

isofa

Before you save, just check the File > Properties settings so it reflects your name etc, and not that of your family members (or just clear it out).

KEM

Does that mean I shouldn't have bothered to pay for a proper version of Excel?

isofa

Technically if you are using it for commercial purposes you should have a "commercial" version, but as a home user, bringing stuff home from work, although someone will argue against this, I'm sure you'd be doing no great harm.

KEM

Thanks for your replies.
Looks like I may have purchased the full version when I didn't really need to, although as I work from home and don't have a desk in the office I'm not sure that the home user bit actually works in my circumstances. Guess I'm fully in the clear if there were any licencing issues.