MS Office Pro 2010 ~ Help with activation? Please

[MikeysGrrrl]

Let me start by saying that I apologize in advance if I'm not allowed to ask about this here, please feel free to let me know and lock the thread. I actually don't know if I'm allowed to ask

So anyways, I had Office Pro 2010 the full activated version on my last laptop, however the motherboard and something else got completely fried so we had to get a new laptop. Long story short, we were assured that our new laptop had the full version of Office, it turns out that it runs out in 2 days.

So I've spent the last 3 hrs trying to get the this activated so that I have the full version and I'm not having any luck. The information that I used to activate the previous copy wont work and I don't have whatever program is used for torrents.

So I'm curious if anyone has any other ideas, suggestions, tips or tricks that  they would be interested in sharing?

[ponygirl74]

from what I've heard that one must buy the activation key to get it to run off trial- and what I'm saying next I don't know how true it is;  that after that (buying the key) that one must pay for it every year. ( Like I said I don't know how true that one is) but from were
I volunteer @ they had to buy the key   even though was installed on the computers  they bought but it was only a trial version. I hope that helps.

[kaoskat]

I hope you can get this sorted. I does sound like you may have to pay to un-trial it though.

[Shiromisa]

Try Openoffice! It's free software and just as good.

[MikeysGrrrl]

I've never heard of that, does it work pretty much the same? Thanks for the help guys I'm stubborn, so I'll probably be spending the weekend working on this

[StoryDreamer]

OpenOffice is amazing! I use it for every bit of writing I do - hours and hours.  I can help you with anything you need! We use it in my wife's office too.

www.openoffice.org

Here's a tutorial where you can see what it looks like, and how to use it.

[MikeysGrrrl]

Thanks StoryDreamer

Will I be able to open any of my 2010 office pro documents on that? Or will I have to manually copy and paste everything and then resave it?

[mul-ta]

Will I be able to open any of my 2010 office pro documents on that? Or will I have to manually copy and paste everything and then resave it?

I'm guessing you will, I have yet to encounter a MS Office format that OO cannot open.

[MikeysGrrrl]

Thank you to everyone who responded. I went ahead and installed Open Office and I'm so happy that it opens all of my word documents