I also dld the technet file, and did not have to enter a product key, and just installed Word and Excel, nothing else, on my W2G Flash. I asked if it would install on first run, whichafter installing then said it needed to restart. Why? When I ignored this, and opened Excel it worked fine.
Tried to open Word and it then tried to reinstall Office, finally ending with a BSOD.
On rebooting Word wanted to open in safe mode which I ignored, and it opened OK, loaded a PDF file I'd created earlier (using Word (ahem)'97 and CutePDF) for editing and it totally screwed up the formatting. It did ask If I wanted to download the proofing tools and on accepting, took me to the Office 365 dl page and I ran the proofing tools installer. Cheerily it said just restart Word and you are ready to go. There's no restart on the ribbon or menus or anywhere - so I had to exit and then slog over to the far right of the metro tiles to find the Word tile. I checked Word '97 and the 2013 installation has bu88ered that up, so it needs reinstalling, but Excel '97 is fine.
Reopening the PDF in word, it said that there were no proofing tools installed would I like to dl them...
Went to Control panel and thought I would install some program features from the Office 2013 setup program, but it only offered to uninstall Excel and Word
The add/remove features is available from the setup program, but it does not seem to calculate disk space properly, with much larger requirements the second time around.
All in all the setup has some bugs to resolve.
I have the MSO 2013 product key from technet - why is it not accepted when it is put into the
add features cplet? it would seem the ideal method of download - just pick up a product key and add the feature on demand.
Why do I still use Office 97? It takes (less than 5) minutes for a
full install of Office97. It requires no activation, and the product key is not 25 characters long. It produces documents .doc and .xls indistinguishable from those made in later versions if printed or transferred as files. The toolbars take up much less screen space than the ribbon, and are customized to my needs, ideal for my netbook on the road. I know where all I need is in the menus. The output files are tiny. It starts up and loads documents superfast, and does not screw about with panels, just fast popups that dismiss just as fast. I print to PDF if needed using ghostscript and CutePDF.
I don't even have to install office on the machine I am using, I can run Winword97 or Excel97 from another office installation over the network. It does not spend hours configuring itself. With the Office 2003 file converter it can do all I need.
