Hi Paul,

The install of the Office 13 32-bit trial version offered no such option of preserving my un"trial" or production version of Office, as you would think by default it must. Conversely the uninstall version offered no chance to "repair" or restore my previously version of Office. Both the install & uninstall fired up & ran smoothly prompting me for input @ no point in either process.

Additionally upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 and/or installing & uninstalling the trial version of Office 13 altered my machine's configuration enough so that MS Office "Starter" refuses to re-install (fails repeatedly @ step 3 of 4). Now no MS support for Office "Starter" leaves me out in the cold without a jacket & yes, a very dissatisfied MS OFFICE customer indeed.