<div dir="ltr">Why not just go with 365 personal? Did not the Surface come with a trial? $99/year. It's always up to date, you can have it automatically sync'd to to OneDrive for backup. <div><br></div><div>The link below is safe...<div><br><div><br></div><div><pre style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="4"><a href="https://tinyurl.com/23tphwoq">https://tinyurl.com/23tphwoq</a></font></pre></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 4:50 PM Weslake1330 via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi List,<div><br></div><div>Unlike myself, my wife never spends any money on anything computer related and waits for me to resolve her problems....</div><div><br></div><div>Currently she has a very nice Microsoft SurfacePro laptop I got her and it is running W11. Her old PC ran W1O and Home Office 2010 that was family software (I think you could have 4 users on it). I installed Office 2010 ok but the 32 bit version because one of my daughters has or has lost the 64 bit disc and isn't owning up to it.</div><div><br></div><div>So far so good except I can't activate the software because it does not generate an activation code which means you can't activate it by phone either. After spending some time on hold to MS I gave up and thought I would ask the list instead.</div><div><br></div><div>The solution of course is for her to 'find' the money for a more recent copy of office just like I had to for myself, this doesn't seem very likely in the near future. So any ideas why the software won't generate an activation code and would spending time on a long call to Microsoft simply be a waste of my time (yes, she isn't good with this kind of phone call)?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and probably better than googling for an answer again and if the list draws a blank I'll tell him to start saving up and to stop wasting money on stuff she doesn't need . .. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Daniel - in England.</div></div>
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