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OpenOffice Links – Info, Help, Extensions

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

http://update.services.openoffice.org/ooo/index.html

  • Releases
  • Get Started
    • If you are new to OpenOffice.org, you might be looking for user guides, FAQs, HowTos, application guides, and training. To find information about OpenOffice.org documentation, go to: http://documentation.openoffice.org/
  • Do More
    • Experience new functionality and adjust OpenOffice.org to your needs. Maximize your productivity with the help of extensions which add functionality, slight tweaks to the user interface, or entirely new features to the OpenOffice.org productivity suite. Go to http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ for a complete list of available extensions.
  • Get Help
    • If you cannot get your questions answered through the documentation and the Online Help provided with OpenOffice.org, the Support area provides a number of links to free and commercial support offerings: http://support.openoffice.org/

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Install / transfer Microsoft Office to another machine

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

I have Microsoft Office 2007 installed on one of my computers (“the old laptop”) and want to put it on another one (“the new laptop”).  But is there any restriction involving Activation etc.?

  • At the link below, someone else with the same uncertainty verbalises my uncertainties clearly “Will “uninstalling” Office 2007 in that machine, send a signal via the internet that I’m uninstalling it? Or should I take note of any particular machine ID of the one I’m replacing it so I can “tell” the system which one to de-activate?”

There are great clear anwers to this at http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/genuineoffice/thread/413e0f83-774c-43f5-bc1e-b55af6a6b1ea.

  • “Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 can be installed on 3 computer at a single point of time. Other office suite 2007 can be installed on 2 computer. Information can be found in the jewel case.”
  • “There is no process of de-activating an office product. Uninstalling does not de-activate the product. Install the product on the computer and activate.”
  • “REASSIGN TO ANOTHER DEVICE.  You may reassign the license to a different device any number of times, but not more than one time every 90 days.  If you reassign, that other device becomes the “licensed device.”  If you retire the licensed device due to hardware failure, you may reassign the license sooner.”
  • “…there’s a lot of slack in the activation logic, so you’re unlikely to have a problem, but in case you do, you can do a phone activation, which Microsoft says is painless and will only take 5 minutes.”

So all I have to do is go ahead and install it on the new machine then!

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