Download Office: Mac 2011 Home & Student on new McBook Air (macOC Mojave)

Hi Carol,

I'm not a lawyer, and I'm not in Canada (just a few feet away, but still not technically in Canada), so I can't give you legal advice. From the technical side, Microsoft kept the activation servers running about two years longer than they promised they would when support for Office 2011 was discontinued. The activation servers now seem to activate only brand new never been used product codes, but do not work at all for previously used codes. Every once in a while someone reports success on reactivation, but that seems to be the exception, not the rule.

You have some options (besides trying to start a lawsuit)

Are you a student, faculty or staff at an educational institution? If so, lucky for you! You get a free Office 365 subscription

http://office.com/student/

You can use the free on-line "cloud" version of Office at OneDrive.com

You can install Libre-Office (it's free. Not as good, but might be good enough)

You can buy an Office 365 subscription.

The product key works only on one Mac and can't be re-used on another one.

I have the same question, Jim, and I'm confused by your response. If the product key works only on one Mac, why does my license for Office 2011 Home & School say very clearly that I'm permitted to reassign the license to another device. My reading of that provision is you're quite right: The product key only works on one Mac, but I would add the words "at a time." And nobody within Microsoft wants to tell us how to do the reassigning from one device to another.

I take your point made elsewhere in this community that Office 2011 is no longer supported and won't even operate on my new MacBook Air if I upgrade to Catalina when it's available. But I have projects to complete. They involve tons of Word docs created on my early 2011  MacBook Pro using Office 2011 for Mac. And there is no easy or straightforward way to convert them to Pages.

I can carry on with those projects in Word on my old MacBook Pro for now. But that machine has been giving me horrific problems. Gives every indication that it's going to die one of these days soon, which is why I bought the new MacBook Air. I'd like to transfer all my computer activity over to the new machine--including those projects using my archive of Word docs.

So how about it? Do you know how reassigning the license can be accomplished? Here's the exact wording from the license :

15. REASSIGN TO ANOTHER DEVICE. You may reassign the license to a different device any number of times, but not more than one time every 90 days. If you reassign, that other device becomes the “licensed device.” If you retire the licensed device due to hardware failure, you may reassign the license sooner.

Thanks for any help you can offer.