So, I tried again.ĭG: No, I have Office 2016 that I need to uninstall because it won't activate. I had just bought, installed, and attempted to use Office 2016. I didn't have Office 2011 on this machine. The link was to instructions for uninstalling Office 2011. Paris H: Please click here for Uninstall Office 2011 from a Mac After all, I was still talking with Paris H., and you just don't close the window on Paris H. Given that this is a Mac and we're talking Office here, I knew in the marrow of my bones that just taking the applications out of the Applications folder and trashing them wouldn't be enough. That's got Microsoft DNA written all over it. Yep, uninstall the software I just installed and then reinstall it so that it might activate. Paris H: What I would recommend you do is uninstall and reinstall the software. It insists I sign in, and is giving me the unable to activate Office message. All I could think of was, 'You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.' Okay, let's try this again.ĭG: It won't let me. That didn't work, because I'd already ran into the problem of opening up Word 2013.

Paris H: If it is already installed, open up Word 2013 and then click on your name in the top right. So, having already installed Office 2016 and failed in activating it, I asked the obvious question:ĭG: I'm signed in, but do I need to install Office again? Should I delete it first? It turns out, there was an Install button there as well. 'Click here' was a page off of /myaccount/.

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