I didn’t want to be in violation of my service agreement with Microsoft so I decided to deactivate the serial from 2 of those 3 computers.Īfter a great deal of searching with my incredible Google skills I found the only way to deactivate a serial in Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac. I didn’t even mean to find this out and, after purchasing 5 different copies, I mistakenly used the same serial on 3 different computers and have not received any errors when working in the program simultaneously.
This is probably because they also did not put any mechanism in place to stop you from installing your version of Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac on as many computers as you want. plist file referenced above and copied it into place with chown root.wheel and then when I started Excel, it opened without prompting. Once I had the SSD back in the MBP, I was still getting prompted. Note: If the wizard does not open automatically, you may have to start an Office application, like Word or Excel, and click Activate. In this wizard box, you will click Enter your purchased product key. When beginning to activate Office for Mac 2011, the get started wizard will open.
Microsoft did not make it very easy to deactivate a product key for Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac. That change was enough for Office 2011 to revert back to prompting for licensing. Steps to Activate Office with a One-Time Purchase.
