On Sat, 12 Sep 2020 23:00:03 -0400, Paul wrote:

Note that no matter what the license terms, there will still be
occasions when you've "done too many install operations" and
you have to talk to a human by phone to explain yourself.

I have called them and Microsoft "fixes" it magically, somehow.
Dunno how they did it as it was a while ago.

There's also an office "deactivation" process when you retire a PC:

We've discussed this detailed process in the past but the web searchable
archives for this ng suck, so let me look on the winxp ng instead:
o https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

This is a search for 'office deactivation'
o https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/microsoft.public.windowsxp.general/office$20deactivation

Drat. It must have been only in the Windows 10 ng (which is why I generally
_add_ a dejagoogled ng when I open a thread - so that it's archived).

Sigh.

But I sent a URL in another post from the Microsoft web site on how to
deactivate an Office non-subscription installation so you can re-use it.