There seems to be a semi-common problem for people who are attempting to upgrade their Microsoft Works 9 or Microsoft Works SE 9 to Microsoft Office 2007. The upgrade doesn’t work and gives an error that the original program isn’t there. There is a very simple fix for this problem but I haven’t seen any links to it so I am posting one here.

If you are having this problem, go to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943290 and download the file that is linked to under the “RESOLUTION” heading. Once you have downloaded it, install it and retry your Microsoft Office upgrade. It should now go smoothly.

Happy Computing,

Tim

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Do you use Microsoft Office 2007? If not, this is a great reason to start!

With no expensive or additional software, you can easily create Abobe Acrobat .PDF conforming files within Microsoft Office 2007.
Simply download a simple plugin to allow this function. You’ll have to download and run a program that verifies that your copy of Office is legitimate, but you should be able to handle that. Then after you confirm your version of Office, you will be taken to another page to download the actual plugin.

Once it is downloaded, run the plugin and agree to the EULA. After the installation process is complete open any of your Office, Excel, Publisher or anything else you want and choose “Save As” and change the format to PDF. That’s it!

So create all the PDFs you want. For free!

Happy Computing,
Tim

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