On 9/24/2018 4:04 PM, Ant wrote:
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On 23/09/2018 20:55, Ant wrote:
With Office 2007, it is no longer supported (like Office 2003 and
Windows XP) and so the Microsoft servers are no longer live.
Are you saying old unsupported Office users won't be able to activate
their legal copies? I still have 2007 and just activated it last year or
so. :/

I am saying that the servers are no longer available. You'll need to
use the phone method and beg to Microsoft Call Center Staff to give you
the code to activate it manually. The code is pretty long and you might
need to ask them to repeat it so that it works on your machine. If it
doesn't work and you phone them again, you'll be shocked to be told that
you have just activated and they can't help you second time.

The servers for old products are not reliable. People say they come
online some day and sometimes they are dead for weeks. I don't use old,
out-of-support products so can't say anything more than what I have read.

Wow, that sucks.


But you have to be online. No offline. My Internet can be unstable so I
prefer local offline version.

Where do you live? I thought Internet is pretty much reliable these
days in all major cities of the world. South Korea has the best
connections but London, New York, Moscow, Paris California, Tokyo, and
even Hong Kong can come close to what Koreans can get...

I live in a rural area.

I have not tried to update Office, but have downloaded other programs.

With each I saved the downloaded program, to a backup disk so that I do
not have to go back online and download it again. Can you not do the
same with office?

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