Microsoft Word is being a pain

ok here is the story. I found out Microsfot word, the test drive doesn't do printing. so we had a Microsoft Wofd 2004 we installed, then instead of the normla thing comming up like we nomally do, there is a window that said to find a past version to update on when there isn't and we have never seen that before.
What should I do?

so basically if I waiting till the office x expired. uninstall that, install the office 2004 test drive, then use the CD, it would work?
Not quite. If you were to install the 2004 test drive, it will eventually expire and prevent the full version from working. Even if you install the full version over the test drive. You need to get any test drive versions completely off of the hard drive.
As I understand your latest post, you've at one time installed both the Office X and Office 2004 test drive versions. You need to do the following in order.
1) Install the Office X test drive. Remove it using its removal tool.
2) Install the Office 2004 test drive. Remove it using its removal tool.
3) Install the full version of Office 2004 from the CD.

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    >> >
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