I bought my laptop with windows office installed on it already. Problem is when i wanna use a program, like word, it asks me for a product activation key (25 character). What can i do about this, where can i find the activation key if i dont have any microsoft office "cd's"|||The product key on the computer is only for the Windows operating system. It won't work for Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, ...). Unless you paid extra for Microsoft Office, you have a free trial copy that expires after 25 uses (of all Office programs combined) or 60 days. Until then, you don鈥檛 need a product key. You can use the trial copy by just clicking the Continue button in the registration window without entering anything in the product key boxes. But be warned: When the trial period expires -- with little or no warning -- you'll be able to read and print your documents, but not much more. When that happens, you'll have to buy a license (product key) for Microsoft Office to continue using it. Here are some of your options for legally paying less than full price for Microsoft Office 2010: First, if you're a student, you may qualify for the Office Professional Academic edition of Office at a pretty good price ($79.95): http://www.microsoft.com/student/ Second, if you鈥檙e interested in buying just Word, check out this URL, especially the second group of listings. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/produc鈥?/a> Note that the higher of the two prices quoted is for a full version of that program and the lower, for upgrades from existing software. Read the list of upgrade-qualifying software carefully: MS Works is often one, and may have come on your machine. Finally, if you're willing to spend a little to save a little, Microsoft Works is available in stores for about $40.00. You could buy a copy, install it, then buy Office at the upgrade level. I think you'd come out ahead. Note that the upgrade copy probably checks your machine for Works' presence, so don't get rid of it after you've installed Office. You never know when you're going to have to reinstall Office. Also, if you have files that are locked up in the new Word 2010 file format (.docx), here鈥檚 a possibility for salvaging them. Microsoft offers a free Compatibility pack that allows earlier versions of Word (and Microsoft Works) to read and write Word 2010 files. If you have access to an earlier version, this can at least give you back your documents. Some new features of Word 2010 will be lost or converted to straight text in the conversion to the earlier version. Good luck.|||I think you have to go and buy the Word CD, because when I got a new laptop, I had to enter the code too.. so I took it from the CD i bought earlier. If you never bought one before.. you have to now.|||Why not just use a free office suite and never have to worry about activation codes? OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/

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