I hate it when...
Jun. 3rd, 2012 01:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
angharad_gam...a computer decides it knows what you want.
I sort of assumed last week that my install of Office included Powerpoint. So I didn't have to fret too much about finishing the presentations I was giving overseas because I could tweak them on the run.
But of course I actually don't have Powerpoint.
I didn't even have Powerpoint reader, but in installing this I discovered I could get a free 60 day trial of Office 2010 with Powerpoint. Awesome, sez I - that is just what I need. So I download the installer, and start installing. Do I want 64 bit Office? Oh boy do I, after all I do have 64 bit Windows.
But oh no! My old Office is 32 bit and it cannot install this 64 bit trial when I have 32 bit Office installed. That would just be crazy!
Fine, sez I. Try installer again. This time it skips right over the 'do you want 64 bit with that' and just starts installing it. So I delete the installer. I delete the downloaded files the installer is trying to install. I download the installer again. The damn thing still thinks I want 64 bit Office because I said it once and who would ever, ever change their mind?
And the error that pops up saying I cannot install 64 bit Office over an older 32 bit Office helpfully suggests instructions for fixing this in CD ROM I am installing from.
Anyone know anyway around this (I'm starting to think opening a whole new account with Microsoft so the stupid installer thinks I'm a different person).
Of course none of this is helped by the fact that I am trying to pack (which always stresses me out) and the kids are just being hyper-kinetic loons today.
I sort of assumed last week that my install of Office included Powerpoint. So I didn't have to fret too much about finishing the presentations I was giving overseas because I could tweak them on the run.
But of course I actually don't have Powerpoint.
I didn't even have Powerpoint reader, but in installing this I discovered I could get a free 60 day trial of Office 2010 with Powerpoint. Awesome, sez I - that is just what I need. So I download the installer, and start installing. Do I want 64 bit Office? Oh boy do I, after all I do have 64 bit Windows.
But oh no! My old Office is 32 bit and it cannot install this 64 bit trial when I have 32 bit Office installed. That would just be crazy!
Fine, sez I. Try installer again. This time it skips right over the 'do you want 64 bit with that' and just starts installing it. So I delete the installer. I delete the downloaded files the installer is trying to install. I download the installer again. The damn thing still thinks I want 64 bit Office because I said it once and who would ever, ever change their mind?
And the error that pops up saying I cannot install 64 bit Office over an older 32 bit Office helpfully suggests instructions for fixing this in CD ROM I am installing from.
Anyone know anyway around this (I'm starting to think opening a whole new account with Microsoft so the stupid installer thinks I'm a different person).
Of course none of this is helped by the fact that I am trying to pack (which always stresses me out) and the kids are just being hyper-kinetic loons today.
