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 Post Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 5:19 am 
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I'm using Office 2016 Professional Trial in Windows 10 and 8.1. Every time I open one of the apps, the Microsoft Office Activation Wizard
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pops up. I've gone through the activation process several times, but it still pops up each and every time. Any ideas how to get rid of this annoyance?
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 Post Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2015 6:50 am 
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See - http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/offi ... d15?auth=1

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Steve, I explored the information at that link and ran all the remedies. The first did not resolve the problem, so I ran the second, also without results. The third required an online procedure and half way through it, I got an error dialog that said the program needed to be closed. I clicked on that, it went away and then I started all over again by going to Programs and Features, only to find that Office 2016 was no longer listed. Clicking on "Change/Repair" in the previous procedure actually uninstalled the whole thing. OK, no problem because I still have Office 2010 installed, but when I went to Outlook 2010, it would not send or receive. I went back to Programs and Features, clicked on Office 2010, then Change/Repair. After about ten minutes, the routine finished and Outlook 2010 now functions properly again.

So I still don't know if those instructions would have kept the activation windows from popping up because it took away the 2016 installation. I will reinstall it when I get the chance this weekend to see what happens from there. Thanks for posting the link; it provided some information about repairing these things that came in handy.
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I must be missing something... If you are running the Trial of Office 2016 why would you not expect the activation dialog?

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Jay, I've activated each Office 2016 app multiple times, but the activation wizard still comes up each time I open one. They all worked just fine so I guess I'm activated, but the activation wizard is on an open-ended loop.

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Since you are running a trial version would you not have to actually buy the thing and enter the product code to actually succeed with the activation?

Again I may be missing something...

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Jay:
Office 2016 is a pre-release "beta" version. ;-)
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Oh, shoot! It is still only the year 2015 isn't it... ;)

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