My lady friend of the moment has been given an Asus Vivobook as a birthday present. It's a basic unit with an 11.6' screen which she'd like to use instead of her laptop, when she needs something lighter and easily carried.

Microsoft has just published the Office 2016 Preview application for home and enterprise. It is available to Office 365 subscribers, other Office users and non-Office users on the Office website. If you are not an Office 365 subscriber, you can download a 32-bit or 64-bit installer for the Office 2016 Preview from the site. Microsoft maintains that you don't need to uninstall previous versions of Office before installing a newer release. However, if you are upgrading to Office 2016 and would like to remove Office 2011 first, see How to completely remove Office for Mac 2011.

The Asus comes loaded with Windows 10 and a one-year subscription of Office 365, which needs activation before it can be used. Now, sorry folks, I have to admit I'm just not sold on Win10 myself, still using Win7 happily and as far as I'm concerned having to pay Microsoft every year after the 365 subscription is over is not on. Consequently, I've told her to hang fire before she activates 365. Now, she has her own legitimate full copy of Microsoft Office 2007 which she likes and uses already, so two questions, since guess who's going to have to do this for her:): 1.

Assuming it's possible, is it best to uninstall 365 first, then install Office 2007? Or, without activating 365 and simply installing Office over it, will this conflict with the 365? I'd appreciate any thought or suggestions on this, especially from someone who's actually loaded their own version of Office instead of 365 in a similar situation. Welcome to the TenForums @ First as you are likely aware support for Office 2007 expires this year in October. While leasing Office 365 on one machine for $99 is not a good business case the fact they provide five licenses starts to change the equation, especially for those who want to be current or if they want the Outlook email client. (and you get all the other products.) One man's opinion on whether to uninstall Office 365 or not.

I have found over the years, having two 'Offices' leads to issues. I remember several years back when I installed Office 2013 with 2010 already installed Outlook was particularly troublesome. Software for mac mini. Additional information can be found in this article. If you scroll down you will see the link on Office 2007 and Office 2016.

Many thanks for taking time to reply. Yes, I was aware of support for Win7 being withdrawn in October. Your point re: 99 bucks & 365 etc is well-taken, but would be economically stupid in this particular case. Though you say you've had 'issues' with dual-Office installations, I'm assuming you didn't, in your example, simply uninstall 2010 before installing 2013.