Wording Again
Aug. 27th, 2026 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_knightI’ve had Office 2021 for several years. Got my licence from StackSocial, and it’s been fine.
Handed in the previous mss, did not use Word (I keep it for work; I write in Storyist), and the next time I opened word, I was met with a nasty surprise: it did not allow me to make any changes and wanted me to subscribe to Office 365.
I hate subscriptions. I do not want. Especially not since I have a valid licence.
But now my next mss is booked, and I had to solve this.
And thus I did all the troubleshooting that I could. Can’t sign out and re-enter my licence code, can only subscribe to Office 365.
Logged into my MS account and eventually (under ‘subscriptions’) found the option to redownload Office.
Did that. Still fucked.
Went onto the website. There is a helper app, but I could not download it because apparently my account had been blocked for using too many wrong signins (I did not. I also was signed in.)
So, support. A ‘human’ who sounded suspiciously like the last customer service agent I talked on, on Ebay (down to the same phrases) gave me a dl link for a licence removal app (eeeek!) and I installed and ran it, it removed the licence MS no longer recognised, I was THEN asked to sign in again (my previous attempt to sign out had been unsuccessful) and hey presto, licence validated, and I can edit Word docs again. (Have not thoroughly stress tested; one doesn’t at near midnight).
It’s fucked up that MS has a licence removal tool that you need to run and apparently this is a common thing to happen. That’s about the worst validation process I’ve encountered. The whole ‘the paid app and the subscription app are the same thing’ is fucked up anyway.
Anyway. I feel I have achieved an important thing. Hurray.
(Also played table tennis today. With my new bat. Felt rather butter fingered and didn't have the greatest time, partly because of AH behaviour from another player, but got into it after a while and playing with different people.)
Tag is close enough.
Handed in the previous mss, did not use Word (I keep it for work; I write in Storyist), and the next time I opened word, I was met with a nasty surprise: it did not allow me to make any changes and wanted me to subscribe to Office 365.
I hate subscriptions. I do not want. Especially not since I have a valid licence.
But now my next mss is booked, and I had to solve this.
And thus I did all the troubleshooting that I could. Can’t sign out and re-enter my licence code, can only subscribe to Office 365.
Logged into my MS account and eventually (under ‘subscriptions’) found the option to redownload Office.
Did that. Still fucked.
Went onto the website. There is a helper app, but I could not download it because apparently my account had been blocked for using too many wrong signins (I did not. I also was signed in.)
So, support. A ‘human’ who sounded suspiciously like the last customer service agent I talked on, on Ebay (down to the same phrases) gave me a dl link for a licence removal app (eeeek!) and I installed and ran it, it removed the licence MS no longer recognised, I was THEN asked to sign in again (my previous attempt to sign out had been unsuccessful) and hey presto, licence validated, and I can edit Word docs again. (Have not thoroughly stress tested; one doesn’t at near midnight).
It’s fucked up that MS has a licence removal tool that you need to run and apparently this is a common thing to happen. That’s about the worst validation process I’ve encountered. The whole ‘the paid app and the subscription app are the same thing’ is fucked up anyway.
Anyway. I feel I have achieved an important thing. Hurray.
(Also played table tennis today. With my new bat. Felt rather butter fingered and didn't have the greatest time, partly because of AH behaviour from another player, but got into it after a while and playing with different people.)
Tag is close enough.
