jeallen01
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Per the title, here's the story:
- around 2010 I was able to get a full Office 2010 Pro Plus CD & Product Key (I have the original email with from MS with the Key in it!) for peanuts because I worked for a company that had a corporate agreement for employees to get the package for home use.
- Now, if I try to use that Key to reinstall Office on the PC that has been rebuilt after the SSD -coning disaster (separate thread!), it tells me that that key is not valid!
I think that could be related to the company having gone belly-up about 3 yrs ago - and thus the corporate agreement must have lapsed.
However I'm wondering if there is any way the "correct" product key can be retrieved from the CD (as opposed to from an already-installed version) - any ideas?
PS: I suspect that it won't be possible as MS may have invalidated the Key at their end - but I would be very pleased to find out that that is not the case.
- around 2010 I was able to get a full Office 2010 Pro Plus CD & Product Key (I have the original email with from MS with the Key in it!) for peanuts because I worked for a company that had a corporate agreement for employees to get the package for home use.
- Now, if I try to use that Key to reinstall Office on the PC that has been rebuilt after the SSD -coning disaster (separate thread!), it tells me that that key is not valid!
I think that could be related to the company having gone belly-up about 3 yrs ago - and thus the corporate agreement must have lapsed.
However I'm wondering if there is any way the "correct" product key can be retrieved from the CD (as opposed to from an already-installed version) - any ideas?
PS: I suspect that it won't be possible as MS may have invalidated the Key at their end - but I would be very pleased to find out that that is not the case.