I just ran afoul of a typical Microsoft screw-up. I have an older laptop/notebook computer. Years ago I bought a "family pack" of Microsoft Office 2010 Home & Student. The family pack gave me three licenses. At one time I used all three. I have since sold two of the three computers. Before I sold them, I scrubbed all my files and any paid software, and I installed Libre Office as the office suite. That should allow me to re-use the two licenses I freed up for MS Office.
Problem: Office 2010 reached end-of-service a month or two ago. Automatic activation reports that all three of my licenses have been used. The usual solution is such cases is to activate over the phone. BUT ... Office 2010 is now past end-of-life, so phone activation is no longer available. Instead, a window pops up on the screen giving you an activation number. Cool! Except:
The pop-up shows eight (8) windows for entering groups of numbers that make up the activation code. The code has nine (9) groups of numbers.
I need to get a phone number so I can call Microsoft and get my Office installation activated.
