Why does office suck so bad.

[Shadow_Storm56]

Ok..... so for like 6 months my office 365 install has been broken and nothing I or Microsoft techs do has done anything at all.... one of the Microsoft techs actualy curropted my windows install which was fun time to fix. The error is just an activation error when I try to use any office product. I even bought it again and it still fails. Yes there are alternatives buy it is hard as it is for school and everything else uses office. If anyone has anything that me or Microsoft hasent thought of then please tell me. 

[TheKDub]

Have you entered the correct product key, and also made sure that it can contact Microsoft's activation servers? (No firewall or anything blocking it)

[divito]

Outside of what KDub said, it seems as though by the way you referenced having to "fix" your install, that you still haven't tried actually freshly installing your OS. I have a hard time believing a freshly purchased copy wouldn't work on a new install.

And if it hasn't worked for six months, you either have a connection issue (which I'd say is unlikely given it's a Microsoft product), or your install had issues before the Microsoft tech "corrupted" it.

[Shadow_Storm56]

22 minutes ago, TheKDub said:

Have you entered the correct product key, and also made sure that it can contact Microsoft's activation servers? (No firewall or anything blocking it)

I have entered multiple  correct keys. And yes It can get through..

[Shadow_Storm56]

1 minute ago, divito said:

Outside of what KDub said, it seems as though by the way you referenced having to "fix" your install, that you still haven't tried actually freshly installing your OS. I have a hard time believing a freshly purchased copy wouldn't work on a new install.

And if it hasn't worked for six months, you either have a connection issue (which I'd say is unlikely given it's a Microsoft product), or your install had issues before the Microsoft tech "corrupted" it.

Oh my windows install is fine, the only thing that dosent work is office. 

[divito]

2 minutes ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

Oh my windows install is fine, the only thing that dosent work is office. 

It's fine, and yet a Microsoft product doesn't work on it. And the other 100 million Office 365 customers don't have this activation issue.

You've probably already tried the common fixes; date and time correct, run as administrator and then activate, firewall/antivirus/proxy not interfering, full uninstall and registry clean remnants before reinstall. 

Outside of spending a lot more time on Google looking for a random quirky fix that might apply to you, the only thing left is reinstalling your OS. 

[Shadow_Storm56]

1 minute ago, divito said:

It's fine, and yet a Microsoft product doesn't work on it. And the other 100 million Office 365 customers don't have this activation issue.

You've probably already tried the common fixes; date and time correct, run as administrator and then activate, firewall/antivirus/proxy not interfering, full uninstall and registry clean remnants before reinstall. 

Outside of spending a lot more time on Google looking for a random quirky fix that might apply to you, the only thing left is reinstalling your OS. 

 ...... oh God not again. I get so tired of reinstalls. The odd thing is it used to work and then one day was just like nope aND was screwed ever since.