The info I can find on Office 2011 is that this problem with office365 services was fixed in the .2 update back in Feb. I think it was. I have the .5 update and office365service does not run when I run any office app.
...I have the .5 update and Office365service does not run when I run any Office app.
...but all the files are gray and unselectable.
setfile
utility to update the Type. 'It turns out that the files I can't open from the dialog are .xls files created by exporting reports from Quicken 2007! ... Preview for the Quicken export shows a generic document icon but a spreadsheet icon for the file I can open ... Otherwise, all the Get Info information is consistent between the files. I can double click either one to open it, but the Quicken export is grayed out in Excel's Open file dialog, even with Enable->All Readable or Enable->All Documents selected.
MS Office will not run (except to 'read only' the existing files) after being moved from one hard drive to another. It wants a Product Key, but to make it worse, MS Tech support says that the 2011 upgrade from 2008 is designed to only go in once, to one computer, and that the Key is not accessible by anyone, and there is nothing they can do about it except sell me a subscription or a new copy of the program.
Don't have the key for 2011. It was probably a download, and my search through old emails did not reveal anything. But the Microsoft tech support person said that it does not transfer between hard drives anyway with or without a key.
...SplashID works well too...
The issue is activation tied to specific hardware which I don't particularly enjoy. What if I have a hard drive that I use as a boot drive for two separate desktop machines? You're making me activate it twice? Why? What gives? I already did this.
Why couldn't Microsoft use a policy that instead simply ties the license to the computer's MAC address rather than that of the hard disk?