Microsoft Office 365, confused.
Jason100
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I have recently purchased a new Dell Inspiron 5000 with Microsoft Office 2013 pre-installed. To use it i did a free trial of Office 365 which expired yesterday.
What i'm confused about is that i can still use Microsoft Word 2013 in full after the 365 free trial has ended. Is this because it was pre-installed or am i confusing office 2013 with 365?
What i'm confused about is that i can still use Microsoft Word 2013 in full after the 365 free trial has ended. Is this because it was pre-installed or am i confusing office 2013 with 365?
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The Office 2013 on the PC may have been the full version (especially if you paid extra for it) or may just have been a trial.
It must be the full version of office 2013 as the only expiration notification I am getting is for the free trial for Office 365. I can still use the Microsoft Office applications with no problem.
If so, you may be able to rearm it for 180 days use.
Otherwise, you would have to buy it or use a free suite such as LibreOffice, perhaps with Thunderbird for e-mail instead of Outlook.
Other recommendations will be available.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?pws=0&gl=uk&q=how+to+rearm+office+2013&gws_rd=ssl
Edit: You can check what you've got.
http://www.askvg.com/how-to-convert-microsoft-office-2013-trial-version-into-full-version-without-reinstalling/
You can also get a summary of all your hardware and software with Belarc Advisor
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
Unless it says something like Office 2013 (30-day trial) you should be OK!
It just says on the item description "Microsoft Office 2013 multi language" Quantity 1 so i'm guessing I don't need a product code then, only if I want to activate the 365 subscription?
If it's working, I think you have a full license.
I keep getting a message saying "to use word without interruptions, reactivate your product now"
I can still use word in full, i'm assuming this message is to do with the 365 trial? I tried using the e-mail address i have been using on windows 8 to activate it but it won't do it for some reason.
I did see a PC once that had both Office 365 and Office 2013 installed. I had to remove office 365 in order the stop getting the activation messages. However, in your case you would have to be very sure you have a separate Office 2013 installation before removing Office 365.
You can check the status of the installation to see if it is activated or not.
On the following web page scroll down to the bit with the yellow background which shows how to check the status of Office.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/266023-office-2013-activate.html
If you needed Office you would have been sure to see it was included. If you didn't and you did buy it 'accidentally' then you had no idea of what you were paying for the actual laptop or why that seemed a good deal as there is £100 of licence that can't be hidden in the price.
If you accidentally 'found' Office on your PC and are hoping for it to work for free forever, then you will be out of luck. I don't see why you would consider an Office 365 subscription if you did have Office.
Checking the receipt AFTER you have bought and opened the PC is a no-no. None of it is refundable or returnable unless it is faulty. Especially software.
EDIT: I read it is a Dell. Well, you'd have agreed to the salesman's recommendations if you rang up, obviously. The only other way to buy is online, where at each stage you click on which bits to add to your package. Otherwise, a third party retailer has sold it, if it's their invoice it might be inaccurate.
If user is prepared to make a full image backup on an external hard drive first (good thing to do anyway), then user could remove 365 and if ok, no problem. If not, simply restore backup image?
http://www.dell.com/uk/p/inspiron-15-5547-laptop/pd
Scroll down to the list of specs/features below the green Buy Now buttons.
Bloody Dell, they bring the price down £100 after I buy the machine! Haha
That's the machine I bought and I don't remember it saying Microsoft office trial when I made the purchase. If it is a trial, it must be a 60 day one as I can still use the product in full with occasional 'buy now' pop ups.
Well if you never scrolled down below the Buy Now button you might not have seen it
Up to you whether you cough up how ever many hundreds of quid Microsoft charge for an Office licence these days or do what I did when I found a trial version of Office on the laptop I bought on Sunday, zap it into the great recycle bin in the sky and stick Libre Office on the machine instead.
There is an option to use an e-mail address to activate Office but that's not worked with the e-mail I use to sign in with Windows 8.
Shame about it being a trial - dang! Two free alternative suggestions for you, Jason100:
Kingsoft Office: http://www.kingsoftstore.com/kingsoft-office-freeware.html
FreeOffice: http://www.freeoffice.com/
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15
and running
cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus
see snip from Windows 7 x86
http://s22.postimg.org/gg69u7npd/office_status.jpg
for Office 2010, use Office14. For 32bit Office on x64 use Program Files (x86) etc
(pay attention to spaces in cmd)
from http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/show/1746-check-ms-office-2010-activation-status
Libre Office is my preferred fork of the Open Office product line. You should try it again, it's much improved and is actively developed.
The previous problem you had was present even with older versions of Office (2003 or older) until Microsoft released the Office Compatibility Pack. This actually worked when installed alongside Open Office, but now current versions handle Office XML files, .docx, .xlsx, etc.
http://www.libreoffice.org/
Install 32-bit JRE for full functionality;
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jre7-downloads-1880261.html
Disable in browsers and suppress sponsor programs in the Control Panel after installing.