The Key Card option was working for me up until last week. I was given an install key via email but required to sign in with a live ID to download the software. I refused as I was buying for a client, a single person consultancy.

I had to explain to my client that they had to sign up for a Microsoft ID before they could use the software which they were not impressed about. MS is doing exactly what Apple has done for years which is why I refused to ever buy into the Apple world.

One Drive is broken, if you dont believe me, see what happens if you have been using Sharepoint from BPOS through to Office hosting and tick the option to move to Onedrive. I cant use it at all now as I already had a free OneDrive account, the Sharepoint added a Onedrive business account with the same email address and broke.

I can still use Sharepoint under Office Pro Plus with the Sharepoint Workspace but under it is completely bung. If I go to the OneDrive website and sign in it says there is a personal and a corporate ID with the same details, which do I want?

I have had to move to Google Drive to ensure my files sync properly between my devices. What a joke, an expensive painful joke. Compare this latest Microsoft rubbish to a system like Sonos no affiliation, just a user. Not only does Sonos do what it advertises, it does it so painlessly and seamlessly that you dont mind paying a bit more. Obviously a good user experience is not a high priority at MS although I will admit the Windows phone works quite well, pity about the rest.

Hi Benny, I am sorry to hear you have been having such headaches. I am not familiar with Sonos, but the company that I am currently working for uses Google Drive and Dropbox, and is quite happy with those solutions.

If you want to do a write-up of your experience with Sonos, I will gladly publish it for you! Sir, Just found your blog.. I need to show this to people here. I will e-mail you off-line and we can discuss. Hi Hollis. Depending on how you did the repair that could have happened. I would recommend uninstalling and re-installing from your VL source.

Thanks for reading! It was an online repair outlook did it automatically. Can I uninstall office and reinstall without losing data? Can I install again on top without uninstalling? Compare your screen to this screen shot and look for the following. A Microsoft subscription offers added benefits from our partners. See the benefits. Need more help? Get support. We’ll resume installation as soon as possible and you can keep working once we do. I am still connected to the internet and I’m not trying to install anything – I just want to use Word.

Is there a way to stop Office from updating before it will work? What Office program should I block in my firewall? It’s useless. I still get constant problems when I try to use Office. Usually when i try to open any Office document, an Excel file, a Word doc If you have it, return it – say you don’t agree with the EULA. How do I get it to install and not try to re-install every time I need to use it. I had to print a resume the other day and got the error again.

I had to use an old Word from Office which still works great so that I could print my Resume. F U, Microsoft. It will work for a little while, then it will make me wait to download before I can use it, then it will eventually stop working altogether, forcing me to uninstall and re-install over again.

I end using the Office that still works on my other computer. How is a user supposed to make Office work so it doesn’t have to constantly update itself and break? Is there a setting to keep it from updating? If this does not help then create new windows user account and then open office applications to see if they behave the same.. Today when it happened, excel has been currently opened for days says the product is activated.

I happened to close outlook, which has been running for days as well, now it keeps asking to re-activate product. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. Threats include any threat of suicide, violence, or harm to another. Any content of an adult theme or inappropriate to a community web site. R3b00t Jul 21, at UTC. Chad wrote: Are you sure there is only one copy of office installed?

I built the computer myself using all brand new parts. No software came pre-loaded on the new SSD. How did you activate them? Lee H wrote: How did you activate them? Activation was done online when you are asked to create a MS account. I have looked and looked and do not see a telephone number anywhere. So if someone could please tell me what that number is or point me in the right direction, I would love to try and activate this over the phone.

Aaron wrote: Check out this thread and comments. I noticed the two different versions mentioned in your screenshot. I do agree that many new pc’s come with pre-loaded software.

However in this case, that did not apply. The reason I say that is because we purchased each part brand new and I built it here in our shop. The SSD had nothing on it what so ever.

Jan 12,  · outlook keeps asking me to re-activate product key This is the 3rd time it has happened to me these past 6 months. Each time, the IT support team comes, uninstalls and reinstalls. Jun 20,  · Microsoft Office was designed to work with the cloud – Office is of course the answer, and gives you so much more than just the client software. In fact, with Office Microsoft is moving to a subscription-based service, rather than an up-front purchase model. Jun 25,  · Microsoft office keeps asking for activation code even though I already activated it Please can you tell me what to do in Windows 8. Jul 30,  · My problem isn’t just with Outlook – every Office program wants to re-install and download something on a regular basis. Sometimes it will work for a week before having one of the install errors while other days it will be constant errors. No real pattern that I can tell. My internet is more than fast enough. Sep 01,  · Office was a transition version from which tied license directly to hardware and which tied it directly to email account, and only indirectly to the hardware. In MS (dis)”improved” the way the product key was stored on the computer so now we can only extract the last 5 characters of the product key. Enough to match it to to.

Thankfully, I can use outlook after to verify the account via the email they generate ;. But as far as I and a few others on my thread have found, this is an absolute requirement. I just found this link about how activation is supposed to silently happen if you are connected to the internet.

I have never ever seen this across my client base. Doesnt work, after clicking the link and entering the product key you are then asked for an email account to associate your key with. This blog entry is correct, as mentioned in the article itself, when it relates to volume licensed Office , or TechNet or Action Pack or anything else where you can download a DVD image. It have worked on this for a week, talked to several departments at Microsoft and my distributor, and have determined there is no simple workaround.

These prices are about the same as they were for Office Jeffrey please re-read what I wrote. Companies with 5 computers are a different story. I have to research options for a replacement for MS Office. Skout I hope you realize I no longer work for Microsoft in any way.

If you think there is a better product that Microsoft Office then I encourage you to use it. I have not found one.

I handle IT for a small church. We have volume lic for a number of products including Office Yesterday i had to do a online repair of Office to one desktop. Afterwards it asked for a key. I input our vol MAK lic key and it says it is for vol lic and not for that version. Did the online repair change the version? Can I load the vol lic version on top and be OK? Personal opinion : the cloud feature is useless anyway.

The pros of the feature are not nearly enough to compensate for it. But who knows what the folks at MS might be doing to mess with us?

The Key Card option was working for me up until last week. I was given an install key via email but required to sign in with a live ID to download the software. I refused as I was buying for a client, a single person consultancy. I had to explain to my client that they had to sign up for a Microsoft ID before they could use the software which they were not impressed about. MS is doing exactly what Apple has done for years which is why I refused to ever buy into the Apple world.

One Drive is broken, if you dont believe me, see what happens if you have been using Sharepoint from BPOS through to Office hosting and tick the option to move to Onedrive. I cant use it at all now as I already had a free OneDrive account, the Sharepoint added a Onedrive business account with the same email address and broke. I can still use Sharepoint under Office Pro Plus with the Sharepoint Workspace but under it is completely bung.

If I go to the OneDrive website and sign in it says there is a personal and a corporate ID with the same details, which do I want? I have had to move to Google Drive to ensure my files sync properly between my devices. What a joke, an expensive painful joke. Compare this latest Microsoft rubbish to a system like Sonos no affiliation, just a user. Not only does Sonos do what it advertises, it does it so painlessly and seamlessly that you dont mind paying a bit more.

Obviously a good user experience is not a high priority at MS although I will admit the Windows phone works quite well, pity about the rest. Hi Benny, I am sorry to hear you have been having such headaches. I am not familiar with Sonos, but the company that I am currently working for uses Google Drive and Dropbox, and is quite happy with those solutions.

If you want to do a write-up of your experience with Sonos, I will gladly publish it for you! Sir, Just found your blog.. I need to show this to people here. I will e-mail you off-line and we can discuss. Hi Hollis. Depending on how you did the repair that could have happened. I would recommend uninstalling and re-installing from your VL source. Thanks for reading! It was an online repair outlook did it automatically. Can I uninstall office and reinstall without losing data?

Can I install again on top without uninstalling? I have created one common administrative office account for this reason. However, since all the products are the same it is impossible to tell which one to install after entering the key. If you choose the wrong one from the list in your account they are all identical , you get an error trying to activate saying that key was already used elsewhere in other words, you did not select the one on the list that matches the key you entered.

No going back, no undo. You have to uninstall and try again. The fun part? The list is not static. The newest one is not, say, always on the bottom or on the top. No volume licensing, not all of us get to choose what is purchased.

I have run into the same exact issue. It is a mess to attempt to re-install Office trying to figure out what selection on the list to choose. Often times I will just activate the product via phone with Microsoft manually. I have not been able to get to a phone rep. My activation window does not give me a phone option. Hollis if you have the volume license you should be able to log on to your account and download it.

Mitch, I can download another copy. Can I uninstall and reinstall without data loss? I have a computer and I use it to write letters that I send out via regular mail. Search the community and support articles Install, upgrade and activate Microsoft and Office Search Community member.

Is there a way to keep Office from having to re-install every time that I try to do something? Is there a way to keep it installed so this doesn;t happen every time I use it? I am currently getting an error that the installation is having a problem even though I have used it before. Background Installation ran into a problem.

Please make sre you’re still conected to the internet, or try connecting to a different network. It has an internet connection that is working – I don’t know what office’s Fu ing problem is. It’s nothing but constant problems – I wish they would just go back to Office – where everything actually worked correctly.

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Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Deepa Raj. Hi Han, I understand how hard it is when the Office program does not work as expected. Thank you. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Deepa Raj’s post on June 25, Thanks but unfortunately neither helped. My problem isn’t that it won’t install. It’s been installed for 6 months. Sometimes it will work fine for 5 or 10 uses then I get the error: Background Installation ran into a problem.

Arshad’ Khan. In reply to HannoverFist’s post on June 26, In reply to Arshad’ Khan’s post on June 30, Do you even know what the Fix It does? Occasionally it will work. In reply to HannoverFist’s post on July 5, It will uninstall office traces, this issue occurs when the installation is corrupt some how, so the best resolution would be to use the fix it, remove office and then re-install office.

I totally understand your frustration, we are user like you who try to install on our interest. In reply to Arshad’ Khan’s post on July 10, In reply to HannoverFist’s post on July 15, In reply to Arshad’ Khan’s post on July 17, Unfortunately, this didn’t help either.

In reply to HannoverFist’s post on July 24, Did you create new windows user account and check if issue persists in new user account? If this does not then need to check if someone else have any suggestions on this. In reply to Arshad’ Khan’s post on July 28, Is there an Office service that I should stop to prevent it from having to constantly download? This site in other languages x.

Sep 01,  · Office was a transition version from which tied license directly to hardware and which tied it directly to email account, and only indirectly to the hardware. In MS (dis)”improved” the way the product key was stored on the computer so now we can only extract the last 5 characters of the product key. Enough to match it to to. Jul 22,  · Unfortunately, that did not seem to work. I was able to activate Office Home & Business in Word. Soon after, I opened Outlook and the window immediately came back. @ Aaron, I can get to step 3 in that how-to before I start having issues. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15 is the directory where Office is 3/5(10). Jan 12,  · outlook keeps asking me to re-activate product key This is the 3rd time it has happened to me these past 6 months. Each time, the IT support team comes, uninstalls and reinstalls.
Jul 22,  · Unfortunately, that did not seem to work. I was able to activate Office Home & Business in Word. Soon after, I opened Outlook and the window immediately came back. @ Aaron, I can get to step 3 in that how-to before I start having issues. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15 is the directory where Office is 3/5(10). Sep 01,  · Office was a transition version from which tied license directly to hardware and which tied it directly to email account, and only indirectly to the hardware. In MS (dis)”improved” the way the product key was stored on the computer so now we can only extract the last 5 characters of the product key. Enough to match it to to. Jun 25,  · Microsoft office keeps asking for activation code even though I already activated it Please can you tell me what to do in Windows 8. This can happen if you don’t uninstall the pre-installed version of Office on your new PC before installing a volume license version of Office. To stop the prompts for activation, make sure your Office uses volume licensing and then update the registry. Verify that your Office version uses volume licensing. Jul 30,  · My problem isn’t just with Outlook – every Office program wants to re-install and download something on a regular basis. Sometimes it will work for a week before having one of the install errors while other days it will be constant errors. No real pattern that I can tell. My internet is more than fast enough.
 
 

 

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Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. This can happen if you don’t uninstall the pre-installed version of Office on your new PC before installing a volume license version of Office. To stop the prompts for activation, make sure your Office uses volume licensing and then update the registry.

Volume license versions of Office are typically used by large organizations. Here’s how to check if your version of Office uses volume licensing:. If you see buttons named Manage Account or Update Options , you’re not using a volume license version of Office. For help with activating other versions of Office, see Activate Office. Important: This task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully.

For added protection, back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. Right-click the Start button on the lower-left corner of your screen, and select Run.

Type regedit , and then press Enter. Select Yes when prompted to open the Registry Editor.

R3b00t Jul 21, at UTC. Chad wrote: Are you sure there is only one copy of office installed? I built the computer myself using all brand new parts. No software came pre-loaded on the new SSD. How did you activate them? Lee H wrote: How did you activate them? Activation was done online when you are asked to create a MS account. I have looked and looked and do not see a telephone number anywhere.

So if someone could please tell me what that number is or point me in the right direction, I would love to try and activate this over the phone. Aaron wrote: Check out this thread and comments. I noticed the two different versions mentioned in your screenshot. I do agree that many new pc’s come with pre-loaded software.

However in this case, that did not apply. The reason I say that is because we purchased each part brand new and I built it here in our shop. The SSD had nothing on it what so ever.

If this does not help then create new windows user account and then open office applications to see if they behave the same.. My problem isn’t just with Outlook – every Office program wants to re-install and download something on a regular basis.

Sometimes it will work for a week before having one of the install errors while other days it will be constant errors. No real pattern that I can tell. My internet is more than fast enough. I think if there was a way to stop Office from trying to update everytime something is started, most of Microsoft’s OFFICE problems would go away.

It’s not like I’m the only person with these constant issues that aren’t in any other program that I have. Yes, I tried bit using a new user account didn’t help. Office still wants to download and install cr p almost every time that I open a program or file that uses an Office program.

Is there something I can block in my Windows firewall to prevent Office from constatly downloading? I’m not sure how well the firewall works though – virtually every program seems to access the internet without a firewall exception. Why is so hard to stop it from downloading from the internet?

Office is like a bad virus. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Install, upgrade and activate Microsoft and Office Search Community member. Is there a way to keep Office from having to re-install every time that I try to do something? Is there a way to keep it installed so this doesn;t happen every time I use it?

Type regedit , and then press Enter. Select Yes when prompted to open the Registry Editor. On the left side of the Registry Editor, under Computer , navigate to the following key in the registry:. Open a document in Word. Compare your screen to this screen shot and look for the following. Microsoft Office was designed to work with the cloud — Office is of course the answer, and gives you so much more than just the client software.

In fact, with Office Microsoft is moving to a subscription-based service, rather than an up-front purchase model. Especially in the enterprise but also in smaller businesses and the home it is easier on the pocketbook to pay monthly than up front. Not all of you agree… Okay, that is fine; if you do not want to work with Office , and would rather buy the FPP and not integrate with any of the on-line services including licensing and activation!

There is a better way of installing Microsoft Office that does not require you to type in a product key every time: create a. It is only available with the Pro versions of Microsoft Office, and even at that only with media attached to a volume license.

However if you have that, your life will be much easier:. This will open the Microsoft Office Customization Tool. You will be prompted to select the product that you want to customize in this case Microsoft Office Professional Plus bit , or to open an existing customization file. Click OK. While this tool gives you a lot of options that you can configure and I encourage you to explore!

I will focus on two specific options. I like the fact that the OCT allows me to enter my organization name as well as the default installation path. In the appropriate box you can enter your key, which will be characters. Speaking of end users, the same screen lets you change the Display level of the installation… so they can see it happening, or not.

I like to set the level to None , but send a Completion notice so they will be advised when the installation is complete. The OCT does verify that your Product Key is valid, else it will not let you navigate from this screen. Once you have completed all of the customizations you like as I said, please do not feel restricted by these!

In the File menu click Save As…. Navigate to where you plan to save it and enter a file name, and press Save. You are almost ready! Now that you have created your. MSP file, all you have to do is place it in the updates directory of your installation media. If you are using an. ISO file then you can simply mount the file and copy it in. If you are deploying from a USB key or network share then you can simply copy the file.

Microsoft goes to great efforts with every new product release to make it easier on end users and IT Pros alike to deploy and use their technologies. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn’t help. Thanks for your feedback. Thank you for your response. But after many agonising hours trying to get this problem sorted out over the phone to MS Support, and live chat on my Laptop, as well as trying the Easy Fix which didn’t help, and asking in here, I have just found I had saved the Key to a document and on a spreadsheet I keep, I opened Word and used the add key and voila!!

Hey Presto Problem diverted :.

Jul 30,  · My problem isn’t just with Outlook – every Office program wants to re-install and download something on a regular basis. Sometimes it will work for a week before having one of the install errors while other days it will be constant errors. No real pattern that I can tell. My internet is more than fast enough. Jun 25,  · Microsoft office keeps asking for activation code even though I already activated it Please can you tell me what to do in Windows 8. Jan 12,  · outlook keeps asking me to re-activate product key This is the 3rd time it has happened to me these past 6 months. Each time, the IT support team comes, uninstalls and reinstalls. This can happen if you don’t uninstall the pre-installed version of Office on your new PC before installing a volume license version of Office. To stop the prompts for activation, make sure your Office uses volume licensing and then update the registry. Verify that your Office version uses volume licensing. Sep 01,  · Office was a transition version from which tied license directly to hardware and which tied it directly to email account, and only indirectly to the hardware. In MS (dis)”improved” the way the product key was stored on the computer so now we can only extract the last 5 characters of the product key. Enough to match it to to.

I always use my own Microsoft Account, and I am now the registered user for hundreds of installations of Office ! I have been confronted by partners, customers, and end users with variants of this question for months, and I always tell them the same thing… there is NO requirement to log onto a Microsoft Account when installing Microsoft Office Microsoft Office was designed to work with the cloud — Office is of course the answer, and gives you so much more than just the client software.

In fact, with Office Microsoft is moving to a subscription-based service, rather than an up-front purchase model. Especially in the enterprise but also in smaller businesses and the home it is easier on the pocketbook to pay monthly than up front.

Not all of you agree… Okay, that is fine; if you do not want to work with Office , and would rather buy the FPP and not integrate with any of the on-line services including licensing and activation! There is a better way of installing Microsoft Office that does not require you to type in a product key every time: create a.

It is only available with the Pro versions of Microsoft Office, and even at that only with media attached to a volume license. However if you have that, your life will be much easier:. This will open the Microsoft Office Customization Tool. You will be prompted to select the product that you want to customize in this case Microsoft Office Professional Plus bit , or to open an existing customization file.

Click OK. While this tool gives you a lot of options that you can configure and I encourage you to explore! I will focus on two specific options. I like the fact that the OCT allows me to enter my organization name as well as the default installation path. In the appropriate box you can enter your key, which will be characters. Speaking of end users, the same screen lets you change the Display level of the installation… so they can see it happening, or not.

I like to set the level to None , but send a Completion notice so they will be advised when the installation is complete. The OCT does verify that your Product Key is valid, else it will not let you navigate from this screen. Once you have completed all of the customizations you like as I said, please do not feel restricted by these!

In the File menu click Save As…. Navigate to where you plan to save it and enter a file name, and press Save. You are almost ready! Now that you have created your. MSP file, all you have to do is place it in the updates directory of your installation media. If you are using an. ISO file then you can simply mount the file and copy it in. If you are deploying from a USB key or network share then you can simply copy the file.

Microsoft goes to great efforts with every new product release to make it easier on end users and IT Pros alike to deploy and use their technologies. While the cloud connection is great and some of us love being able to activate our applications by entering our Microsoft or Organizational Account! You just may have to dig a little deeper, look a little harder… or ask someone like me! I am a renaissance man of the IT Industry Deployment, Virtualization, Cloud, anything about Windows client.

I am also a father, a Black Belt, and a really nice guy. I am also a Certified Cigar Sommelier and cigar blogger, but I usually separate that out to my alternate site, www. View all posts by Mitch Garvis. Just had another frustrating day with this activation process, as I have now probably done about 30 of these. Have you tried entering the product key and finished the install and activation?

Entering the key enables you to continue installing but after that it tells you to redeem online with the account in order to activate! Thankfully, I can use outlook after to verify the account via the email they generate ;. But as far as I and a few others on my thread have found, this is an absolute requirement. I just found this link about how activation is supposed to silently happen if you are connected to the internet.

I have never ever seen this across my client base. Doesnt work, after clicking the link and entering the product key you are then asked for an email account to associate your key with. This blog entry is correct, as mentioned in the article itself, when it relates to volume licensed Office , or TechNet or Action Pack or anything else where you can download a DVD image.

It have worked on this for a week, talked to several departments at Microsoft and my distributor, and have determined there is no simple workaround. These prices are about the same as they were for Office Jeffrey please re-read what I wrote.

Companies with 5 computers are a different story. I have to research options for a replacement for MS Office. Skout I hope you realize I no longer work for Microsoft in any way. If you think there is a better product that Microsoft Office then I encourage you to use it. I have not found one. I handle IT for a small church. We have volume lic for a number of products including Office Yesterday i had to do a online repair of Office to one desktop. Afterwards it asked for a key.

I input our vol MAK lic key and it says it is for vol lic and not for that version. Did the online repair change the version? Can I load the vol lic version on top and be OK? Personal opinion : the cloud feature is useless anyway. The pros of the feature are not nearly enough to compensate for it. But who knows what the folks at MS might be doing to mess with us?

The Key Card option was working for me up until last week. I was given an install key via email but required to sign in with a live ID to download the software. I refused as I was buying for a client, a single person consultancy. I had to explain to my client that they had to sign up for a Microsoft ID before they could use the software which they were not impressed about. MS is doing exactly what Apple has done for years which is why I refused to ever buy into the Apple world.

One Drive is broken, if you dont believe me, see what happens if you have been using Sharepoint from BPOS through to Office hosting and tick the option to move to Onedrive. I cant use it at all now as I already had a free OneDrive account, the Sharepoint added a Onedrive business account with the same email address and broke. I can still use Sharepoint under Office Pro Plus with the Sharepoint Workspace but under it is completely bung. If I go to the OneDrive website and sign in it says there is a personal and a corporate ID with the same details, which do I want?

I have had to move to Google Drive to ensure my files sync properly between my devices. What a joke, an expensive painful joke. Compare this latest Microsoft rubbish to a system like Sonos no affiliation, just a user. Not only does Sonos do what it advertises, it does it so painlessly and seamlessly that you dont mind paying a bit more.

Obviously a good user experience is not a high priority at MS although I will admit the Windows phone works quite well, pity about the rest. Hi Benny, I am sorry to hear you have been having such headaches. I am not familiar with Sonos, but the company that I am currently working for uses Google Drive and Dropbox, and is quite happy with those solutions. If you want to do a write-up of your experience with Sonos, I will gladly publish it for you! Sir, Just found your blog.. I need to show this to people here.

I will e-mail you off-line and we can discuss. Hi Hollis. Depending on how you did the repair that could have happened. I would recommend uninstalling and re-installing from your VL source.

Thanks for reading! It was an online repair outlook did it automatically. Can I uninstall office and reinstall without losing data? Can I install again on top without uninstalling? I have created one common administrative office account for this reason.

However, since all the products are the same it is impossible to tell which one to install after entering the key. If you choose the wrong one from the list in your account they are all identical , you get an error trying to activate saying that key was already used elsewhere in other words, you did not select the one on the list that matches the key you entered.

No going back, no undo. You have to uninstall and try again. The fun part? The list is not static. The newest one is not, say, always on the bottom or on the top. No volume licensing, not all of us get to choose what is purchased.

Jul 22,  · Unfortunately, that did not seem to work. I was able to activate Office Home & Business in Word. Soon after, I opened Outlook and the window immediately came back. @ Aaron, I can get to step 3 in that how-to before I start having issues. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15 is the directory where Office is 3/5(10). This can happen if you don’t uninstall the pre-installed version of Office on your new PC before installing a volume license version of Office. To stop the prompts for activation, make sure your Office uses volume licensing and then update the registry. Verify that your Office version uses volume licensing. Jul 30,  · My problem isn’t just with Outlook – every Office program wants to re-install and download something on a regular basis. Sometimes it will work for a week before having one of the install errors while other days it will be constant errors. No real pattern that I can tell. My internet is more than fast enough. Jun 20,  · Microsoft Office was designed to work with the cloud – Office is of course the answer, and gives you so much more than just the client software. In fact, with Office Microsoft is moving to a subscription-based service, rather than an up-front purchase model.

I understand how hard it is when the Office program does not work as expected. I will assist you with the issue. Try the steps below and check if it helps:. Repair the Office installation and check if it helps:. If repair fails try the steps from the article below:. I hope the above links helps fix the issue. If you need any help reply and we will be glad to assist you. Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn’t help. Thanks for your feedback.

The problem is that Office keeps needing to install new files with some new stupid “feature” that doesn’t seem to work correctly when ever I start any Office product Word, Excel, Access Please make sure you’re still conected to the internet, or try connecting to a different network.

We’ll resume installation as soon as possible and you can keep working once we do. I am still connected to the internet and I’m not trying to install anything – I just want to use Word. Is there a way to stop Office from updating before it will work? What Office program should I block in my firewall? It’s useless. I still get constant problems when I try to use Office. Usually when i try to open any Office document, an Excel file, a Word doc If you have it, return it – say you don’t agree with the EULA.

How do I get it to install and not try to re-install every time I need to use it. I had to print a resume the other day and got the error again.

I had to use an old Word from Office which still works great so that I could print my Resume. F U, Microsoft. It will work for a little while, then it will make me wait to download before I can use it, then it will eventually stop working altogether, forcing me to uninstall and re-install over again. I end using the Office that still works on my other computer. How is a user supposed to make Office work so it doesn’t have to constantly update itself and break?

Is there a setting to keep it from updating? If this does not help then create new windows user account and then open office applications to see if they behave the same.. My problem isn’t just with Outlook – every Office program wants to re-install and download something on a regular basis. Sometimes it will work for a week before having one of the install errors while other days it will be constant errors. No real pattern that I can tell. My internet is more than fast enough. I think if there was a way to stop Office from trying to update everytime something is started, most of Microsoft’s OFFICE problems would go away.

It’s not like I’m the only person with these constant issues that aren’t in any other program that I have. Yes, I tried bit using a new user account didn’t help. Office still wants to download and install cr p almost every time that I open a program or file that uses an Office program.

Is there something I can block in my Windows firewall to prevent Office from constatly downloading? I’m not sure how well the firewall works though – virtually every program seems to access the internet without a firewall exception. Why is so hard to stop it from downloading from the internet? Office is like a bad virus. Choose where you want to search below Search Search the Community. Search the community and support articles Install, upgrade and activate Microsoft and Office Search Community member.

Is there a way to keep Office from having to re-install every time that I try to do something? Is there a way to keep it installed so this doesn;t happen every time I use it? I am currently getting an error that the installation is having a problem even though I have used it before. Background Installation ran into a problem. Please make sre you’re still conected to the internet, or try connecting to a different network. It has an internet connection that is working – I don’t know what office’s Fu ing problem is.

It’s nothing but constant problems – I wish they would just go back to Office – where everything actually worked correctly. This thread is locked.

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Details required :. Cancel Submit. Previous Next. Deepa Raj. Hi Han, I understand how hard it is when the Office program does not work as expected. Thank you. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Deepa Raj’s post on June 25, Thanks but unfortunately neither helped. My problem isn’t that it won’t install.

It’s been installed for 6 months. Sometimes it will work fine for 5 or 10 uses then I get the error: Background Installation ran into a problem. Arshad’ Khan. In reply to HannoverFist’s post on June 26, In reply to Arshad’ Khan’s post on June 30, Do you even know what the Fix It does? Occasionally it will work. In reply to HannoverFist’s post on July 5, It will uninstall office traces, this issue occurs when the installation is corrupt some how, so the best resolution would be to use the fix it, remove office and then re-install office.

I totally understand your frustration, we are user like you who try to install on our interest. In reply to Arshad’ Khan’s post on July 10, In reply to HannoverFist’s post on July 15, In reply to Arshad’ Khan’s post on July 17, Unfortunately, this didn’t help either. In reply to HannoverFist’s post on July 24, Did you create new windows user account and check if issue persists in new user account?

If this does not then need to check if someone else have any suggestions on this. In reply to Arshad’ Khan’s post on July 28, Is there an Office service that I should stop to prevent it from having to constantly download? This site in other languages x.

Jan 12,  · outlook keeps asking me to re-activate product key This is the 3rd time it has happened to me these past 6 months. Each time, the IT support team comes, uninstalls and reinstalls. Jul 30,  · My problem isn’t just with Outlook – every Office program wants to re-install and download something on a regular basis. Sometimes it will work for a week before having one of the install errors while other days it will be constant errors. No real pattern that I can tell. My internet is more than fast enough. Sep 01,  · Office was a transition version from which tied license directly to hardware and which tied it directly to email account, and only indirectly to the hardware. In MS (dis)”improved” the way the product key was stored on the computer so now we can only extract the last 5 characters of the product key. Enough to match it to to. Jun 20,  · Microsoft Office was designed to work with the cloud – Office is of course the answer, and gives you so much more than just the client software. In fact, with Office Microsoft is moving to a subscription-based service, rather than an up-front purchase model.
Sep 01,  · Office was a transition version from which tied license directly to hardware and which tied it directly to email account, and only indirectly to the hardware. In MS (dis)”improved” the way the product key was stored on the computer so now we can only extract the last 5 characters of the product key. Enough to match it to to. Jul 22,  · Unfortunately, that did not seem to work. I was able to activate Office Home & Business in Word. Soon after, I opened Outlook and the window immediately came back. @ Aaron, I can get to step 3 in that how-to before I start having issues. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office 15\root\office15 is the directory where Office is 3/5(10). Jun 25,  · Microsoft office keeps asking for activation code even though I already activated it Please can you tell me what to do in Windows 8. Jun 20,  · Microsoft Office was designed to work with the cloud – Office is of course the answer, and gives you so much more than just the client software. In fact, with Office Microsoft is moving to a subscription-based service, rather than an up-front purchase model.