New laptop with Office 10 pre-loaded

bigtimecharlie

Hope this is the correct forum for this answer rather than the laptop forum.

I have a new laptop (win7 home premium) with office 10 pre-loaded. However, it can't be activated as Microsoft have stopped issuing product keys.

I can use the Word and Excel starter without the rest of the package but I can't open a word document that was sent to me by email. I keep getting prompted to purchase (office 2013).

Anyone know of a work-around?

Overheal

I keep getting prompted to purchase (office 2013).

Anyone know of a work-around?

Thats the workaround.

uch

You could try openoffice

Codpeas

bigtimecharlie wrote: »

I can use the Word and Excel starter without the rest of the package but I can't open a word document that was sent to me by email. I keep getting prompted to purchase (office 2013).

Anyone know of a work-around?

I'm assuming that you are double-clicking on the attachment to try and open it? Did you try saving it and then opening it from within Word Starter?

Capt'n Midnight

uch wrote: »

You could try openoffice

Microsoft office licenses cost so much that Sun Microsystems found it cheaper to buy StarOffice instead. And by that I mean buying the entire company.


I prefer libreoffice because it had the developers and wasn't Oracle.

It would be nice to see openoffice and libreoffice merge again


you can also get word viewer to view, but not edit doc/docx

Fysh

bigtimecharlie wrote: »

Hope this is the correct forum for this answer rather than the laptop forum.

I have a new laptop (win7 home premium) with office 10 pre-loaded. However, it can't be activated as Microsoft have stopped issuing product keys.

I can use the Word and Excel starter without the rest of the package but I can't open a word document that was sent to me by email. I keep getting prompted to purchase (office 2013).

Anyone know of a work-around?

When you bought the laptop, were you told it came with a full licence for Office 2010? If so, go back to the vendor and make them sort out the problem.

It sounds more like you had some sort of trial version installed, tbh. If you merely need to activate a licence, you should already have the key (so MS no longer issuing Product Keys should be irrelevant). If you don't have a licence and thus need a licence and product key, the solution is to buy 2013 -this is the current version.

bigtimecharlie

Fysh wrote: »

When you bought the laptop, were you told it came with a full licence for Office 2010? If so, go back to the vendor and make them sort out the problem.

It sounds more like you had some sort of trial version installed, tbh. If you merely need to activate a licence, you should already have the key (so MS no longer issuing Product Keys should be irrelevant). If you don't have a licence and thus need a licence and product key, the solution is to buy 2013 -this is the current version.

Yes, according to Microsoft, I have a trial version.

Will head done the openoffice route as I had it on the last laptop.

Capt'n Midnight

libreoffice for newer features, for presentations impress just wipes powerpoint

openoffice for better microsoft office file compatibility ,

though that being said always stick to .doc rather than the new .docx formats fregardless of which one you use.

- they are better understood
- they are easier to recover fragments from (.???x means compresses which means you loose everything if you loose certain parts of the file)
- disk space is cheap these days

(the only thing that can't read .docx these days is old copies of microsoft office, unless you install the viewers and patch them a zillion times)

Woofstuff

bigtimecharlie wrote: »

Yes, according to Microsoft, I have a trial version.

Will head done the openoffice route as I had it on the last laptop.

You might be able to re arm the trial license. Think you can add an extra 150 days to the trial. Google it. Iorrt.cmd I think,

Overheal

usually if you just need it for personal use (makeshift budgeting, making a resume, or mom&pop use etc) an 3rd party suite will do great. Office makes itself handy with cloud/web features, and they as of today finally pushed Office support to the iPhone (about damn time). Most of the features I find in office are cool, but if you don't have the money for it, they aren't things you'll terribly miss: its akin to a premium security suit vs using a combo of freeware services. I suppose the nicest thing I've seen lately has been the PDF editing