Share via

Office 365 / Office 2019 license conflict, Onedrive issues

Anonymous
2021-06-23T22:07:03+00:00

Hi,

My Office apps were bugging me that they "May not be genuine". That's weird, I thought, I'm pretty sure I bought a license for these a while back. Not bothering to verify this, I then went out and purchased Office 2019 Home/Student, which I understand is not a subscription but an outright purchase of these apps. I went home, followed the install instructions and when Excel opened up I was greeted with an "Office 365 - Excel" splashscreen. Previously I had been getting what seemed to be an Office 2019 or 2016 splash screen. Nevertheless, I now seemed to be "genuine". I checked my MS account and then realised I had a previously purchased a 1 year subscription to Office 365. So I have 2 licenses now that look like this:

But when I tried to open a document from Onedrive, Excel crashes immediately. Looking online, seems like this is a common problem with Office365 apps vs. Onedrive documents. So I figured I'll try to uninstall this Office 365 and get Office 2019 installed. But after uninstalling Office, and reinstalling from the Office 2019 download, it still shows Office 365, and has the associated Onedrive document issue. Not only that, but after reinstalling it is now telling me that my license "May not be genuine"!

How can I remove any traces of this "Non-genuine" license? And how can I force the install of Office 2019 instead of Office 365? Do I even understand what the primary issue is? Considering I've double-paid for this software and it both crashes and accuses me of being a fraudster, I'm just a tad frustrated and disappointed with this situation.

Please don't tell me to install a fresh copy of Windows to solve this issue.

Microsoft 365 and Office | Install, redeem, activate | For home | Windows

Locked Question. This question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. You can vote on whether it's helpful, but you can't add comments or replies or follow the question.

0 comments No comments

Answer accepted by question author

Anonymous
2021-06-23T22:44:08+00:00

Hello e1m5

Hi, I'm Karl, an independent advisor and will try to help you with this.

>>

Please don't tell me to install a fresh copy of Windows to solve this issue.

<<

This has a relatively simple solution

Option #1 - Normal uninstall

From Control Pane; <Programs> uninstall any version of Office that you find listed

or

Option #2 - Use the Microsoft Uninstall Tool

Download the tool under option #2 in

Uninstall Office from a PC

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/unin...

Once the above is done, log into the MS Account associated with your copy of Office H&S --> go to Services/Subscriptions --> download and install

https://account.microsoft.com/services/

Was this answer helpful?

1 person found this answer helpful.
0 comments No comments

1 additional answer

Sort by: Most helpful
  1. Anonymous
    2021-06-23T22:43:56+00:00

    UPDATE:

    I found a script online that would scrub all my installed licenses and allow me to start over, which I did. Reinstalled from the Office 2019 download, et voila! Excel now opens as an Office 2019 app, and promptly asks me for my software key, which I entered from the back of the card I purchased last night. And am now greeted with this:

    Please can I get some support from Microsoft to reset or reissue the Office 2019 key??

    Was this answer helpful?

    0 comments No comments