Using up my 3 licenses of MS Office 2004?

[sonkissed]

I have 3 licenses with my MS Office 2004... I installed it once... but
awhile later I had to re-format my hard disk on my PowerBook G4... I
re-installed MS Office 2004.... does this count as "1" load, or am I up
to "2" loads? How does MS Office 2004 count installs in a case like
mine?

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

It doesn't care. Just keep reinstalling with the same number. 3 licenses
means 3 people in the household can use the program at the same time,
nothing whatsoever to do with how many times you install it on the same
computer.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I have 3 licenses with my MS Office 2004... I installed it once... but
awhile later I had to re-format my hard disk on my PowerBook G4... I
re-installed MS Office 2004.... does this count as "1" load, or am I up
to "2" loads? How does MS Office 2004 count installs in a case like
mine?

Office doesn't count installs. It counts machines that have the same
license installed. You can't "use up" a license (i.e., it's not like
activation with WinOffice)

Each license allows a simultaneous installation on one desktop and one
laptop (though you can't use both at the same time on the same network).

There's no "load" criterion for licenses. For each license, you could
remove and reinstall Office once a day if you wish.

For each license, you could install Office on a different computer every
day, as long as you remove it from the one you used the day before.

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Each license allows a simultaneous installation on one desktop and one
laptop (though you can't use both at the same time on the same network).

Somehow I thought you could, and I think I have, John. (Perhaps I have
separate licenses and am getting confused here, but I don't think so. I do
have both connected by airport right now and they're both working at the
same time.) There's something that detects the battery in the laptop and
allows the one-desktop-one-laptop-on-same-network, I think.

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PLEASE always state which version of Microsoft Office you are using -
**2004**, X or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions
otherwise.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Somehow I thought you could, and I think I have, John. (Perhaps I have
separate licenses and am getting confused here, but I don't think so. I do
have both connected by airport right now and they're both working at the
same time.) There's something that detects the battery in the laptop and
allows the one-desktop-one-laptop-on-same-network, I think.

To tell the truth, I was referring only to the license, and its
"exclusive use" phrase, not the technical aspect. It's true that if
you're exclusively using both machines simultaneously, you can work on
both at the same time.

In any case, it's certainly technically possible.

 

[mmmmark]

To tell the truth, I was referring only to the license, and its
"exclusive use" phrase, not the technical aspect. It's true that if
you're exclusively using both machines simultaneously, you can work on
both at the same time.

In any case, it's certainly technically possible.

In my experience, they will NOT work on the network simultaneously with the
same code. I ended up having to use another of my 3 codes to allow both to
work at the same time.

On a separate note--that may be hijacking this thread--I was also trying to
allow access over the network to the same database files (mostly out of
curiousity) so the two computers could simultaneously access the same mail.
This also triggered the same licensing error message coincidentally. I got
the "sharing data files" thing to work IF both weren't accessing the files
at once.

-Mark

 

[JE McGimpsey]

In my experience, they will NOT work on the network simultaneously with the
same code. I ended up having to use another of my 3 codes to allow both to
work at the same time.

On a separate note--that may be hijacking this thread--I was also trying to
allow access over the network to the same database files (mostly out of
curiousity) so the two computers could simultaneously access the same mail.
This also triggered the same licensing error message coincidentally. I got
the "sharing data files" thing to work IF both weren't accessing the files
at once.

All I can say is...it's possible with XL v.X and XL04.

 

[mmmmark]

All I can say is...it's possible with XL v.X and XL04.

I thought I tested all apps, but it is possible I only tested Entourage,
Word and Powerpoint. I don't use Excel extensively.

The other machine's copy running on a network connected machine would
immediately trigger the "nastygram" error message alerting the license
restriction.

-Mark

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I thought I tested all apps, but it is possible I only tested Entourage,
Word and Powerpoint. I don't use Excel extensively.

The other machine's copy running on a network connected machine would
immediately trigger the "nastygram" error message alerting the license
restriction.

Sorry, I was too restrictive - it works with the other apps too.

 

[mmmmark]

Sorry, I was too restrictive - it works with the other apps too.

I wonder what the explanation could be in my case? Under no circumstances
would it allow one of the numbers to be shared by ANY two of my networked
computers.

Could it depend on whether Appletalk is enabled (in my case it was)? That
is the one possibility I could dream up.


-Mark

 

[Tom Stiller]

I wonder what the explanation could be in my case? Under no circumstances
would it allow one of the numbers to be shared by ANY two of my networked
computers.

Could it depend on whether Appletalk is enabled (in my case it was)? That
is the one possibility I could dream up.

Do you have the built in firewall enabled?

 

[mmmmark]

Do you have the built in firewall enabled?

No, I have a hardware firewall.