On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 00:32:26 -0400, Paul
wrote:

Louis Fabron wrote:
Mandy Liefbowitz wrote:

It's just a random thought but do you still have access to any of the
old machines? Does one still work? If so, you could try de-activating
Messy Office on one or more. That might "free up" a licence count. It
probably won't work but it's worth a try.

That must have been the problem!

I deleted the old installations even though they were on disks that were no
longer used as the primary disk so the office on them wasn't in the
registry anyways.

The activation online worked after a few boots after doing that. I didn't
do the activation right away because I didn't think just deleting files
would work.

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Do you think deleting these inactive files was the reason it worked?

It could just as easily be a broken license server.

True, but that doesn't make me look like the helpful, brilliant, wise
and clever girl genius everyone knows I am, so it's *highly* unlikely.

Sometimes, the old, reliable solutions still work. Possibly due to
the universe being too tired to think of yet another reason why they
shouldn't this time.

Mand.


Paul