I purchased Office Pro 2016 on bonanza.com for $15 (might be $19 by now).
It is a lot easier. I even had an Office 2013 that I could not get to work and the license key would not take. After a few hours I realized my times is worth WAY more than $15 an hour and just purchased a new one.
Just jump on Bonanza.com (eBay will also work) — you can buy 5 user license packs for $40 or so.
I hear ya, I bought a copy of Office back when they were allowing employees of their corporate accounts to do so at a discounted price. Now it won’t run because “no longer supported”. Pissed me off enough I just learned to use Open Office instead. Screw Microsoft.
Where is it headed??
It headed me to Linux Mint and LibreOffice.
Dirty bastids sure better leave my Microsoft Image Composer program alone. It came with FrontPage '97 or '98. VERY simple picture editing software.
Yeah fo to Open Office. A bonus is far less formatting problems than that horrid Microsoft product.
If you have access to an installed/working version on another computer, there are software programs that can tell what the registration/serial numbers are.
10 Software to Recover Product Key Licenses from Computer
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/retrieve-serial-numbers-or-cd-keys-from-your-computer/
FReepers may have noticed M$FT is moving towards a “software as a service” business model. Office 365, where you pay a monthly fee per user is a start.
Eventually, Windows will be like this.
Wonder what the monthly charge for Windows 7 will be? :)
Download LibreOffice. It’s free and has everything MS Office does and is compatible with ms office.
LibreOffice is a powerful office suite – its clean interface and feature-rich tools help you unleash your creativity and enhance your productivity.
LibreOffice includes several applications that make it the most powerful Free and Open Source office suite on the market.
Check to see if they upgraded you to Office 365.. pretty common even with known MS Office 13 & 16 running on Win 10 and there’s a Win 10 update, they delete your office version and change to Office 365. It’s MS so expect this type of crap.
Go Open Office and don’t look back
I can’t help you but I can attest to the fact I am using a 20 year old version of MS Office I have on a disc and still have the ‘key’. It has worked on MS OS system since then and today on 10Pro.
I have been using (it’s free) OpenOffice for some years now. For the most part I only use the spreadsheet, it brings in all the MS sheets I get sent with no problem.
I use CorelDraw for my graphics work and it takes care of my limited word processor needs. I have no complaints with OpenOffice.
As a bonus, I enjoy not giving money to Microsoft.
Or go Libre Office for free. Just a suggestion.
My XP for 10 years has had no problem with Outlook 2 in receiving emails. While purging my emails I did something and I no longer can receive any email but I can send them. What I get is an error citing an error at a port.
Just download Open Office and be done with it.
My previous company gave me a copy of Office 2010 Enterprise. I kept the files on a USB stick. I must have loaded it on ten different PC’s by now.
Are you sure your document didn’t open in the new version of Word already installed in your new computer?
I use Office 2003 and I’ve always had to refer to the key on the CD case when installing on a new computer. It’s just like installing any other piece of software you install for the first time. I’m running it on Windows 10 right now.