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  • grumpycrab
    grumpycrab Posts: 5,025 Forumite
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    AndyPix wrote: »
    Have you not encountered this issue before during you 25 years of "proper IT" work ??
    Good one. See Neil Jones posts. Do you recognise the email address of the account in the Word (for example) -> File -> Account page (says Belongs too:)
    If you put your general location in your Profile, somebody here may be able to come and help you.
  • 50Twuncle
    50Twuncle Posts: 10,763 Forumite
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    grumpycrab wrote: »
    Good one. See Neil Jones posts. Do you recognise the email address of the account in the Word (for example) -> File -> Account page (says Belongs too:)
    Yes - user account is (not surprisingly) myself with my own hotmail address !!
    But the account is not linked to any MS account - because I "bypassed" MS with the purchase so I am unable to check my previous purchase !
    Incidentally - the progran is properly activated....
  • 85_East
    85_East Posts: 46 Forumite
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    50Twuncle wrote: »
    Yes - user account is (not surprisingly) myself with my own hotmail address !!
    But the account is not linked to any MS account - because I "bypassed" MS with the purchase so I am unable to check my previous purchase !
    Incidentally - the progran is properly activated....

    Normally in these cases the program on your computer thinks it is properly activated. When you install the 'bypass' or crack there is normally something in the crack software that tells your version of MS office to 'verify' itself without actually doing so on the MS server. I suspect you have a cracked version of the software which isn't properly activated.
  • Neil_Jones
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    So basically you set up a MS account for the purposes of Office and now you no longer have access to that account? Hotmail/Outlook accounts time out if you don't log into them after I think 270 days.

    I've never seen any version of Office 2016 that "bypasses" MS as even you install it it will want you to sign into your MS account to activate it properly. I don't doubt what you're saying but that's normally how it works.
  • I_have_spoken
    I_have_spoken Posts: 5,051 Forumite
    edited 16 August 2017 at 6:32PM
    There's Office 2016 'click to run' which is the subscription product you download from a Microsoft or work account which is linked to an Office 365 subscription.

    The so-called MSI version is where you install and then license by putting in a volume license key. There's nothing inherently dodgy about using a volume licensed install. I have click-to-run Office 2016 but have volume licensed Visio 2016 and Project 2016 I bought from a seller on Amazon and they activate fine.

    OP should check email archive for notification of the key
  • debitcardmayhem
    debitcardmayhem Posts: 12,702 Forumite
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    There's Office 2016 'click to run' which is the subscription product you download from a Microsoft or work account which is linked to an Office 365 subscription.

    The so-called MSI version is where you install and then license by putting in a volume license key. There's nothing inherently dodgy about using a volume licensed install. I have click-to-run Office 2016 but have volume licensed Visio 2016 and Project 2016 I bought from a seller on Amazon and they activate fine.
    Yes On Linux Mint

    OP should check email archive for notification of the key
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  • Just download the professional (volume licence) install file direct from Microsoft then use a keygen/crack from TPB and activate it that way. Obviously only do this if you know what you are doing. You still have your licence key so you can still legitimately use Office 2016.

    I hate "consumer" and "home" versions of software. Always make you jump through hoops and locking you down. Microsoft account... what pish.
  • Uxb
    Uxb Posts: 1,340 Forumite
    Can anyone suggest why @50Twuncle has so many computer problems?
  • grumpycrab
    grumpycrab Posts: 5,025 Forumite
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    Uxb wrote: »
    Can anyone suggest why @50Twuncle has so many computer problems?
    They're not his problems?
    If you put your general location in your Profile, somebody here may be able to come and help you.
  • sebastianj
    sebastianj Posts: 1,039 Forumite
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    I have downloaded Office 2016, no key was required. Does this cost somehow?

    sorry to but in.

    seb
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