Office 2007 activation

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So I bought office 2007 and over the 10 years I have owned it I have transferred it from one pc to another. It also seems to want reactivating after any significant hardware changes.
and now it is telling me it can no longer be activated.
I have tried to do the phone activation thing but that is even telling me no.
It directs me towards an MS help page that is only advising on how to tell if your software is genuine (I don't need this I bought the software 10 years ago directly from MS website)

What can I do now ?


also side note, where can I buy a legitimate copy of office 2010 (need outlook included, sop assume home and business version), there are a lot of sites selling it for £20 - £60 but not sure whether these sources can be trusted or not.
 
It has always been my understanding that ALL Microsoft products could (in theory) only ever be activated on a single "system".

As to Microsoft products needing to be "reactivated" as a result of hardware changes, I have encountered this from time to time as a result of changing the amount of RAM adding a 2nd DVD-R./W drive and even adding or removing a non system Hard Disk - this is REALLY annoying. To get round the problem I have made an "image" of the system disk on every system I have built for years to facilitate speedy recovery.

Finally, why use Office? Why not use LibreOffice and Thunderbird?
 
stockhausen said:
It has always been my understanding that ALL Microsoft products could (in theory) only ever be activated on a single "system".

As to Microsoft products needing to be "reactivated" as a result of hardware changes, I have encountered this from time to time as a result of changing the amount of RAM adding a 2nd DVD-R./W drive and even adding or removing a non system Hard Disk - this is REALLY annoying. To get round the problem I have made an "image" of the system disk on every system I have built for years to facilitate speedy recovery.

Finally, why use Office? Why not use LibreOffice and Thunderbird?
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no they can be re-activated but there is a limit to how many times (I don't know what that number is mind)
I am aware of the single system limitation, but that isn't my issue, I have in fairness activated this copy of office a LOT of times over the last 10 years though.

as for libreoffice and Thunderbird, no thanks!!
 
Is there any reason it needs to be 2010? You can get a 2016 Key from eBay pretty cheap if I can remember correctly.
 
bledd said:
Or office 365 subscription. Always the latest version.
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as you can see i'm not bothered about owning the latest version of office :p

office 365 is a very expensive way of owning office IMO.

consider that the 2007 office I am still using now 10 years later was bought for £39.99 on a student discount. :P

I have 2013 on my laptop and I'm not a fan, 2016 is just more of the same.
I have seen 2010 and it looks (to me at least) like a slightly better 2007 without the 2013/2016 rubbish. :)
 
jpaul said:
if you use excel/word at work and also have legacy spreadsheets/docs(eg. cv's) then is office really compatible ?
Have tried it several years agon and had problems loading/editing cv's.
Checking this wiki https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_LibreOffice_-_Microsoft_Office
there are many functionality difference especially for excel ... so, not just subjective opinion.
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The only problem I have ever encountered using MS-Office & LibreOffice is that LibreOffice (sensibly) defaults to outputting Open Document formatted files. If you choose to output files in Microsoft format they seem always to be usable with MS-Office.

I accept that there may be issues with macros, etc. - Microsoft will always try to ensure that their files are incompatible with everything else.
 
If you work for a fairly large organisation check with your employer, if they're part of the MS Home Use Programme you can get the full 2016 package for a tenner.
 
ok you mean this https://products.office.com/en-gb/office-online/documents-spreadsheets-presentations-office-online - did not know about it -

Microsoft is taking the fight to Google with slimmed-down versions of all its usual applications, available to use free online
Fully compatible with desktop apps
Works with OneDrive
Lacks some advanced tools
Microsoft's desktop software carries a subscription fee, but the company has noticed the threat posed by G Suite and created its own set of free online apps.....
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- you have to use/have one drive, and keep your docs there, I guess ? and, probably a good broadband link for fast/useful response on word popup menus etc.
 
My employer is not part of the ms at home scheme.
and this is for my own business that I run on the side anyway :p

online version office.com isn't going to cut it I'm afraid, I run some fairly complex macros which are custom to my business and rely on files on my server.

I/We have spoken to MS only to be told basicly that they cannot help. (official support ended October lat year I think)
 
... support stopping, but should not preclude moving - broken/unreliable hardware plea ?

I have 2010 office oem, on a machine, but after upgrading to an ssd, have not figured out how to re-image and activate it (volume license),
so have reverted to an older purchased 2007.
I started looking at transferring an active activation for which there are some procedure on the web (stop server, copy files, re-start server)
 
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