But when you use a trial version of a program, it is generally thought that you would be able to use at least a portion of the program, no?
Not according to Microsoft Office Word 2007.
I can open documents, don't know about printing them since I don't have a printer, but going to write one?
"This modification is not allowed because the selection is locked," which roughly translates to "please pay at least $160.00 to purchase the full version, sucker."
Hello, OpenOffice! (And the latest version of that does not yet support .docx, which is teh default file extension for Word 2007. Understandable, really, since it is an open-source project, and Office 2007 is still fairly new.)