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MS Office - retrieval of Product Key from the CD?
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1032162" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Thanks - will suss that out in a bit and see if it works with the existing old 2010 Pro Plus CD.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I need the actual Office package (although I have Libre Office, some of the package - notably the presentations part and the drawing/publishing part - aren't fully compatible with many of the features in the versions of Office from 2010 onwards, and they are clunky to use by comparison).</p><p></p><p>Therefore - because I actually prefer Office 2010 over the later versions - I decided to buy another cheap (£6!) 2010 Pro Plus licence off of ebay, downloaded the installer exe (from an MSN sub-site) and installed and updated it last night, and everything seems to be fine</p><p></p><p>FWIW, I've had no trouble (including virus/malware alerts from the AV package) from the 2x cheap Office 2016 Pro downloads & keys I got 6 months ago for 2 other machines, including the old Dell I'm now using until I get the main Samsung fully back up and running (waiting for a disk caddy to put a 2nd hard-drive into it in place of the DVD drive).</p><p></p><p>BTW: I'm reading in some of the Amazon & ebay ads and reviews that these Office keys have come from scrapped m/c's on which they were originally installed. One advertiser said the buyer could have the scrapped and useless hard disk for the licence he is selling if that buyer cared to collect it from his selling address - might or might not be "true", but an interesting twist on the situation.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Ref the key, I do have the original key (by email direct from MS) and CDs (again direct from MS) and that worked for quite a few years, including moving 2010 from this old Dell to the Samsung about 4 years ago - but it appeared to have stopped working sometime after the company, through which I got the programme as a direct download from MS, went belly-up (found that to be the case about a year ago when I tried to install a part of the package that I had not done before , and it gave the same message that the key was not valid.).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1032162, member: 176704"] Thanks - will suss that out in a bit and see if it works with the existing old 2010 Pro Plus CD. I need the actual Office package (although I have Libre Office, some of the package - notably the presentations part and the drawing/publishing part - aren't fully compatible with many of the features in the versions of Office from 2010 onwards, and they are clunky to use by comparison). Therefore - because I actually prefer Office 2010 over the later versions - I decided to buy another cheap (£6!) 2010 Pro Plus licence off of ebay, downloaded the installer exe (from an MSN sub-site) and installed and updated it last night, and everything seems to be fine FWIW, I've had no trouble (including virus/malware alerts from the AV package) from the 2x cheap Office 2016 Pro downloads & keys I got 6 months ago for 2 other machines, including the old Dell I'm now using until I get the main Samsung fully back up and running (waiting for a disk caddy to put a 2nd hard-drive into it in place of the DVD drive). BTW: I'm reading in some of the Amazon & ebay ads and reviews that these Office keys have come from scrapped m/c's on which they were originally installed. One advertiser said the buyer could have the scrapped and useless hard disk for the licence he is selling if that buyer cared to collect it from his selling address - might or might not be "true", but an interesting twist on the situation. Ref the key, I do have the original key (by email direct from MS) and CDs (again direct from MS) and that worked for quite a few years, including moving 2010 from this old Dell to the Samsung about 4 years ago - but it appeared to have stopped working sometime after the company, through which I got the programme as a direct download from MS, went belly-up (found that to be the case about a year ago when I tried to install a part of the package that I had not done before , and it gave the same message that the key was not valid.). [/QUOTE]
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