They’re cheap! They sell for about $20 on eBay because Office 2011 is discontinued and because 2011 will not run in future versions of Mac OS. In these situations, you will have to buy a new product key. Erased your startup volume and reinstalled using the 2011 installer.

Your Office 2011 product key can not be re-used in any of the following scenarios: But thats another storey)Īny ideas how i can get my software activated ? Own and their activation server is preventing me from doing so. I phoned Microsoft support who said that because this product 'Office for Mac 2011' has been superseded by another product ('Office for Mac 2016') they no longer can offer support (frankly Im not asking for support i just want to activate a product that i rightfully I called up the number again and this time it said there is a web site they can send me over text to my phone, to enter the 9 blocks of 6 numbers, they sent me the link to the website over text, i entered the 9 blocks of 6 numbers, but again it failed. On other machines in the past and it worked fine, but this time after entering the 9 blocks of 6 numbers over the phone it said there was an error, so i tried again, but again got an error. He license wizard suggest a I phone a toll free number and go through a phone activation process which requires me to input 9 blocks of 6 numbers into the phone and then receive 9 blocks of 6 numbers back to be re entered into the license wizard. This time though ive gone to input the serial number for Microsoft 'Office for Mac 2011' and i get an error saying the activation server can not be reached (I have tried this on multiple occasions over the past couple of weeks, so do not think its a once inĪ blue moon 'server is down' type error). 4 year life, due to upgrading require storage form 500GB to 1TB to 2TB.Įach time i put a new HD i clone the contents from the old HD first, but some software requires that the serial number is re entered, before i use the software, ive done this in the past and it works fine. Ive got a Mac Mini that has had 2 new hard drives in its c.

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