MS Excel and Word (or Office whatever)

Le_Kirk

prowla said:

AFAIK, existing MS Office licenses should be re-usable; I've certainly done that. I'm not up to date with current, but in the past there may have been an extra step required to confirm online that the license is on a new system and no longer the old one. Since you've got the keys, you could just try installing and see what it says.

Also, if you haven't already done it and you have things on the broken laptop's disk, you could fairly easily take it out of the laptop and put it into an external USB enclosure, which (assuming the disk isn't broken) could then be plugged into one of the new ones and read.

Absolutely agree with that, you can switch licences between m/cs.  If you did miraculously  get your old one working and tried to fire up Office, it would say - no licence - (or similar).  As far as I can recall (it was a while ago that I did it), when you try to install a second or third instance on another machine, Microsoft lists the ones already in use and you get an opportunity to state which one(s) you don't want to licence any more.  Also agree with taking the old HDD out and using a caddy, I have done that and it works!

GunJack

neilmcl said:

Just install the version you currently have.

THIS!!!!!!! you've already got the multi-user-license, just install the same version and use the key you have....as long as you only use the number of installs you've got the license, no problem.

all this talk of use this/that/the other or buy XYZ is a complete waste of OP's time & potentially cash...

inspectorperez

GunJack said:

neilmcl said:

Just install the version you currently have.

THIS!!!!!!! you've already got the multi-user-license, just install the same version and use the key you have....as long as you only use the number of installs you've got the license, no problem.

all this talk of use this/that/the other or buy XYZ is a complete waste of OP's time & potentially cash...

With respect, the OP is using MS Office 2010 and support ceased for that product in October 2020 so no longer gets security updates!

GunJack

inspectorperez said:

GunJack said:

neilmcl said:

Just install the version you currently have.

THIS!!!!!!! you've already got the multi-user-license, just install the same version and use the key you have....as long as you only use the number of installs you've got the license, no problem.

all this talk of use this/that/the other or buy XYZ is a complete waste of OP's time & potentially cash...

With respect, the OP is using MS Office 2010 and support ceased for that product in October 2020 so no longer gets security updates!

It's Office.... what do you think is going to happen?????

inspectorperez

GunJack said:

inspectorperez said:

GunJack said:

neilmcl said:

Just install the version you currently have.

THIS!!!!!!! you've already got the multi-user-license, just install the same version and use the key you have....as long as you only use the number of installs you've got the license, no problem.

all this talk of use this/that/the other or buy XYZ is a complete waste of OP's time & potentially cash...

With respect, the OP is using MS Office 2010 and support ceased for that product in October 2020 so no longer gets security updates!

It's Office.... what do you think is going to happen?????

Well here's 662 patched vulnerabilities for starters.

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-26/product_id-320/Microsoft-Office.html

mobileron

Just installed my old copy of 2007,works a treat.

pbartlett

2007 is just so excellent ! No key management bloatware, super slim and fast.

roytom2

grumpycrab said:

free options - see https://www.techrepublic.com/article/5-free-alternatives-to-microsoft-word/

if you can pay, there are 2 options.  yearly subs e.g. Office family £70 a year

one off purchases e.g. Groupon £24 per license   https://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/microsoft-office-2016-717522863
Wowcher from £20 per license  https://www.wowcher.co.uk/deal/london/17537088/microsoft-office-home-student-2016-19-95?usr_src=search
(wowcher and groupon voucher systems are a little complicated)

OR Office 2010 starter gives free versions of Word and Excel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBKvavVA8g8
I've just insalled on latest Windows10 and it worked... fidly though....

My brother got catch on the Groupon “offer” - he’s not technically savvy and I couldn’t be there - his purchased MS Office licence from Groupon came up as invalid - Groupon refused to help and he’s had to write the sum paid off. Please don’t touch Groupon/Wowcher/Ebay for licences unless you’re sure you can deal with a duff licence code.

roytom2

If you have the MS Office product key you can certainly reuse the licence on another machine provided you’re not over the number of licenced copies in use. We’ve got a product key for office 2010 and I’ve had to transfer it twice as two old laptops conked out. They may ask you how many licences you have currently in use on activation, but this isn’t a problem.

J_B

roytom2 said:

If you have the MS Office product key you can certainly reuse the licence on another machine provided you’re not over the number of licenced copies in use. We’ve got a product key for office 2010 and I’ve had to transfer it twice as two old laptops conked out. They may ask you how many licences you have currently in use on activation, but this isn’t a problem.

IIRC (??), you should 'log out/unlink' MSO on the old laptop first, but, as it's died, you can't. Can you log into your MS account and see if you can unlink it from there?

Or, did I imagine all of the above? 🤔