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Good Evening,
My free Office 365 subscription that came with my laptop has expired. I have a Office Professional Plus 2010 Student key that should still be active.
Do I have to uninstall 365 and then install 2010 from a reliable website ? And will my 2010 product key still work (can I check it before I start uninstalling anything ? ) .
Thank you
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An external optical drive is useful and relatively inexpensive. I have just been using one to install a lot of software on a new Windows 11 desktop that came without an optical drive.
Thank you for the fast reply.
Sorry I shouldve asked that part. I do have the original cd, but like most modern laptops it doesnt have a cd drive. Surely I can download Office 10 from somewhere ? Though I guess Microsoft want you to pay to upgrade.
You can get a USB DVD drive, probably for less than $30 US.
Since Microsoft 365 is expired, I recommend that you uninstall the product from Windows Settings.
Office 2010 can only be installed if you have a product key and installation media, I'm afraid. You can't download the installation file from Microsoft anymore.
Sorry, you can't get a backup installation from Microsoft. They remove all downloads as soon as a product is out of support. :-(
In theory, you may be able to download the install file from somewhere else, but you must be very careful so that your computer doesn't get infected with a virus in the process.
Finding an external CD or DVD will be safer.
Thank you for the fast reply.
Sorry I shouldve asked that part. I do have the original cd, but like most modern laptops it doesnt have a cd drive. Surely I can download Office 10 from somewhere ? Though I guess Microsoft want you to pay to upgrade.