Just changed my Wife?s MacBook Pro HD for an SSD and now MS Office 2011 is saying it needs to be activated.
It was a legitimate purchase but we can?t find any emails or info about product keys anywhere.
I guess *somewhere* on the old HD there will be a product key (although this may be encrypted).
MS no longer offer any support for this version so unless we can sort it I think we?re stuffed.
Any tips on where or how to search for the key?
Tim
If it was Windows the tool would be magical jellybean keyfinder, there seems to be a Mac equivalent ...
try Belarc Advisor, that gives the key for Win 10, so it may help with Office.
Belarc Adviser seems to find old keys and it's free.
But it?s for Windows (unless I?ve misread the site). I need something for Mac OS
Tim
Free version a waste of space. To mean to take a punt on the paid for version without any assurance that it?ll work. Thanks for the suggestion though.
Tim
Do you know how you bought it in the first place?
This any help:
If you can still boot from it, use Belarc advisor on it. Brian
I can't help with the key search but this seems like a good time to consider switching to the latest LibreOffice. Just sayin'.....
We've got that. My wife likes to have Office as well (no, I don't know why).
Tim
Given the lack of email receipts or activation codes, I beginning to think that we must have a physical disc *somewhere*. Just gotta find it... ;-)
Tim
Is that going to work?
Belarc advisor is a windows based tool, and this is a Mac version of Office running on a Mac...
Crucially it is the packaging that contains the activation code.
On Windows I have used Recover Keys with good effect
If you have an old copy of Office 2008 then it might be worth a punt.
I still have it/use it on a Mac - mixture of familiarity, compatibility, free (to students/teachers).
Still continues to annoy - the update just now updated the updater twice (last update November 18), and proceeded to download 3.5GB of files that introduces one billed 'feature' - dark mode. And that's before I've done anything with it yet.
That said, Excel is the best spreadsheet programme I've used.
If you buy a new apple device of course you have to buy new software.
That's Apple.
After much rummaging, we *did* find the disk & box. Despite this installation still baulked at the activation stave and my wife phoned Microsoft.
After a bazillion codes it?s all working again thankfully.
Overall, really pleased with the SSD upgrade.
Tim
No you don?t.
Nope, and its MS, not Apple.
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