Checking with MS Office or something known to be totally compatible seems pretty important to avoid embarrassing problems.Įven MS Office viewer would be good enough for that. Since then I’ve been a bit paranoid about formatting, and I also avoid any special fonts. I then checked in MS Word and confirmed what they mentioned. Well, the recipient was incredibly kind to point out that they couldn’t read it it was just black squares / special characters. I thought I even included the option to embed fonts etc. I once sent in a job application made in LibreOffice, but exported to PDF with the idea that it would be universal. The concern comes when sharing documents with others and worrying about consistency. I stupidly clicked that linked while still being logged in to Hotmail/Outlook/Live in the same browser, and the page of that link automatically recognized my name/account.Īfter ending the chat, I got an email confirming my chat with support… without ever having explicitly given any personal info. In the process, they created a secure file upload link for me to send my product key for them to check. I declined and they continued with support anyways. When chatting with MS support, I was asked to provide my name, email address, and phone number “for documentation purposes”. Local-only can give a certain peace of mind and a degree of privacy. I do use Google Docs and (rarely) MS Office live, but I don’t always want them having copies of my documents for all time. How do I get this thing to work again as before? After digging through the help documentation, I found a valid toll free number for my country, got an automated activation ‘agent’ which seemed to accept the Installation ID, then said my product isn’t valid and hung up… Telephone activation: It says telephone activation is no longer supported for your product. If your purchase price of Office 2010 was significantly less than that shown on for the same licence (ie Ke圜ard or full retail) then you have probably been had. Office 2010 Pro or Pro Plus is fully compatibel with Win8. If I enter the Licence Key on the activation page of Office, it seems to validate it then says to exit/restart Office for it to take effect, but upon restarting still asks for activation by internet or telephone.Īctivation by internet fails: “This product cannot be activated because the product key is not valid.” In reply to MadmaxSAs post on January 23, 2013. I got Office years ago from my university’s MSDN program, and I still have the Licence Key which I was told would always remain valid. This might have coincided with the move to my new system, but I’m not sure since I don’t often use Windows and use Office even less. Office now claims to no longer be activated and required re-activation. I have Office Professional Plus 2010 installed in a Windows 7 VM.
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