Office:Mac Student & teacher Edition

[Lee Bradford]

Why can i not reinstall office onto my imac after restoring the system,
the cd does not seem to be recognised......? any help would be
apreciated.... Lee

 

[William Smith]

Why can i not reinstall office onto my imac after restoring the system,
the cd does not seem to be recognised......? any help would be
apreciated.... Lee

Hi Lee!

A variety of things could be happening.

1. Try another CD. Is that one recognized? If so, your Office CD may be
damaged or you may just need to gently wipe it and clean it.

2. Go to Finder menu --> Preferences --> Sidebar. Are "Removable media"
selected to mount in the sidebar?

3. Go to Finder menu --> Preferences --> General. Are "CDs, DVDs and
iPods" selected to mount on the Desktop?

If your "restored" system includes the trial version of Microsoft
Office, be sure to remove it first before re-installing your S&T edition.

Hope this helps! bill

 

[Andy Kesling]

I have installed the Student & Teacher edition of Mac Microsoft Office on
two of my 8th graders' computers and one copy on my graduate student wife's
computer. When two people try to use Office, we're getting the Office
already in use error message.

The yellow-boxed software came with one product ID, the same kind of one
that's been used since at least Office 2001. Should I have had three of
these product IDs and just received faulty product, or did I goof by
installing each of the computers with this same product ID key?

Can someone point me to a web page that describes how to fix the problem?
I've had no luck finding an explanation in Mactopia.

Andy

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi,

the Student & Teacher version of Office 2004 definitely comes with three
product keys. I remember that early versions of the S&T version of Office
v.X only had one key, but the 2004 version should always include three.

Make sure you check the box in which Office came: you should see three
yellow stickers on the booklet, with three different keys. My guess is that
you accidentally used the same key twice, or even three times, which is why
you can see this message. There is no way of telling which Mac uses which
product key, so follow the instructions on this website to reset the PID
(Product IDentification) code on each machine:

http://www.mcgimpsey.com/macoffice/office/pid.html

Michel