install Transcribe

Question

I recently badly hurt my right hand in a farm machinery accident and I would like to try to install Transcribe on my laptop.  I believe I need to move from Home & Office to 365 but can't see how to do this.

  Can someone guide me through the steps to do this?

Answer 1

Rick, yes you need Office 365 for Transcribe.  See: Voice Commands and Transcriptions in Microsoft Word - Microsoft 365 Blog  (It is not available for one-time payment versions of Office although there may be free versions on the internet - not recommended)

Answer 2

It is actually quite easy:

• You have to get an Office 365 subscription
• activate it on your email account
• install 365 by clicking on the appropriate button
• uninstall 2010 using "Method 1" after you confirm that 365 is working OK

The tricky part is figuring out how to get the best deal from MS. No need to give them any more money than you absolutely have to! WE all know they already have more than their share of the wealth.

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Check around with your family and friends to find out if anyone has a Office 365 Family with an "unused share". Each 365 Family owner can "share" their subscription with up to 5 other people (6 in all on the single 365 Family subscription). Get a group of 6 people together. Find the one whose 365 has the most time remaining on it (NOT least!). That will convert the 365 Personal subscription to Family AND EXTEND their current expire date by 1 year (the remaining Personal time is a free bonus when converted to Family).  You can hassle out how you want to share the cost of the 365 Family license.  Depending on where you live, it could be about $17 per person per year for 6 people.

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Even sharing 365 Family with one other person is cheaper than both of you renting 365 Personal.

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One more Bonus. 

Have anyone who uses Office 365 at work check with their computer department to see if the company qualifies for the HUP, Home Use Program, discount Offer.  If the company has more than 2000 licenses, or has paid for the "Service Assurance" service all of the employees using 365 at work qualify for the HUP.  Under the HUP employees can get 365 Family or Personal at a 30% off the retail price. And by keeping the "auto-renew" feature turned on they can continue to use the HUP discount even after they are no longer employed by the company.

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Or you can buy your own license. 

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If you have a COSCO membership, or have a friend with one, check your local store. Some have an offer where they sell you 365 subscriptions that run 15 months for the price of 12 months.  You can buy and "stack" up to 4 of those 15 month keys

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Also shop around. At this time of year you may be able to get 365 discounted $10-20 at some retail stores.

I Need Office, What Should I Get: Pros vs Cons – WIKI – buy Office - “Free” Office – Buy Office

The article got too long for the forum, so I moved it to a Word document and uploaded it to OneDrive.  You can view or download it from here:

https://1drv.ms/w/s!Am8lVyUzjKfpoGos7ovI66isqzKN?e=kqK1Qj

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Short form, you have several basic options:

.  #1 Office Online, free, but not fully functional

.  #2 Office 365 Family, "free", if you can get a "share" from someone who has paid, use on up to 5 computers

.  #3 Office 2019 Home and Student, buy with US$150 1-time payment, use on 1 computer

.  #4 Office 365 Personal, rent / pay-forever US$70/year, 1 user, you  can use on up to 5 computers

.  #5 Office 365 Family, rent / pay for-ever US$100/year, up to 6 users, each can use on up to 5 computers, works out to as low as $17 each per year

.  #6 Non-MS alternatives to Office, not exactly identical, but free or cheap

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Unfortunately, "buying" Office has become a big decision tree.

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You can take the easy way out and rent Office 365 forever from MS, at full retail price, (whether you really NEED the "extra" features you are paying for) or you can take some time to investigate all of the options to find the best deal for you.

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If you meet the right conditions, you really can get Office for FREE or much cheaper than everyone else who is paying the full retail price.

Check out the wiki I go into more detail outlining these options:

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You will have to decide for yourself. You can to trade off long term cost and features If your needs are very simple, you won’t need to spend much or work with one of the free options. But if you are a more “advanced” user, using multiple Office applications and sharing documents/files with others you will have to pay for one of the “Microsoft” (Office) 365 / Office 2019 bundles.

2020 07 28- Microsoft 365 is big and getting bigger fast

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-365-is-big-and-getting-bigger-fast/

Microsoft 365 contributed $20 billion in billed revenues to Microsoft's FY'20 total, sources say. And that number, fueled by accelerating E5 SKU growth, is only likely to grow faster.

2020 02 07- CompuClever Free File Viewers (MS Store App)

I just came across this free MS Store app. As well as viewing many file formats, it can edit some, specifically Office application files.

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Main Features

Free File Viewers is a totally free application made up of an image viewer, an office editor, a text editor, an audio player, a video player, an unzipper, an eBook reader and a set of useful tools.

Open over 480 file formats

Edit, save, convert, and print files

Batch convert images at lightning speed

Open, edit, and convert camera raw files

Extract files from compressed archives

And a lot more.

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I just tried it and you can use it to edit Office files, plus I don’t know which other file formats. It uses a 2003 menu style user interface.

Go to https://www.office.com/ click on “Get Office” (to buy) or “Sign in” to free Office Online – Office Online = Office for Dummies

Share Microsoft 365 Family (Office 365 Family) Subscription

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/share-your-office-365-home-subscription-b389b9ce-3ae3-4a82-9017-39d79972fcba

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/microsoft-365-family/cfq7ttc0k5dm

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If you've purchased Office 365 Home, you can share your subscription benefits with up to five other people in your household.

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Share your subscription with up to 5 other people in your family.

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This page gives a carppy description of how to Share 365 and what the share receiver gets. But there is no explicit definition of limits on who you can share with, other than saying “household” on one page and “family” on another.

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What are MS's definitions of a "household" and “family”?

Can I share with a child/parent/sibling/cousin/in-law who is not living at that ame address?

Do you have to be biologically related to share?

Do you have to be related "legally", ie marriage, to share?

Does a same sex partner, (AKA "Friend") qualify for a share?

If I am sharing a "house" with non-family members (ie students sharing a house, or “Friends” the TV series), can we “share” a subscription?

If I define a random person to be part of my “Microsoft Family”, can I share 365 with them?

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365 Family Share.jpg

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Help for the people you've shared your subscription with

When you share your subscription with someone, they get an email from Microsoft telling them that you've shared your Microsoft 365 Family subscription with them. All they need to do is click the Accept button in the email and go to their Microsoft account, Overview page where they can install Office, access their OneDrive storage, and more.

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Share Office 365- Who has your Office 365 Family licenses?

http://new.office-watch.com/2016/who-has-your-office-365-home-licenses/

When you share your Office 365 Family subscription, each person gets:

·    Any available Office installs for PC, Mac, tablets, and smartphones.

·    A personal My Office Account page where they can install Office, and view and manage their own installs. To learn more, see Sign in to My Account to install and manage Office.

·    Their own free 1 TB OneDrive storage. To learn more, see “About OneDrive” in Office 365 frequently asked questions.

·    60 Skype minutes of calling per month to mobile phones in eight countries and to landlines in 60+ countries (only in markets where Skype is available). To learn more, see “About Skype minutes” in Office 365 frequently asked questions.

·    Each person has totally separate email

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Note:    People you share your Office 365 Family subscription with don’t have access to your personal OneDrive storage unless you specifically share files or folders with them.

Note: more than one person has reported that when they shared 365 Family with someone who has both an Outlook.com email AND and XBOX account, MS automagically gave them a 365 Family share to BOTH accounts, using up 2 shares.  So they ran out of "shares" sooner than they expected. You can cancel the share offer to the XBOX id.

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What is a Microsoft family group? – You DON’T need one to “Share” 365 Family

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/12413/microsoft-account-what-is-family-group

A family group helps families stay connected and keeps kids safer on Windows 10, Xbox One devices, and Android devices running Microsoft Family Safety. It's free, and it's one of the many benefits of having a Microsoft account. With the settings on family.microsoft.com, you can get reports on a child's activity, set screen time limits, check on a child's location, limit which websites and games they can access, and require your approval to purchase from the Microsoft Store.

NOTE: you do NOT have to use “Family Group” to be able to share 365 Family. It is intended to give parents extra control over their minor children’s internet use.

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This article includes a section on "managing" the family group, including this specific page to remove members from the Family Group:

Remove members from your family group:  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027707

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Uninstall Office 365 – 2007

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/uninstall-office-from-a-pc-9dd49b83-264a-477a-8fcc-2fdf5dbf61d8?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

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Method 1: Uninstall from Control Panel (or Settings dialog)

Method 2: Completely uninstall Office with the uninstall support tool (SetupProd_OffScrub.exe Which installs S.A.R.A.)

Method 3: Remove manually (Registry Hack)

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The Method 1, “Normal uninstall”, is designed with the assumption that you will be re-installing Office. It does NOT delete everything. It leaves configuration files like NORMAL.DOTM and other templates etc. It also leaves configuration Registry entries. Normally these “carry-overs” are safe. But if method 1 didn’t fix your problem, they may be the cause.

Note:Method 1 includes links to Office version specific re-install instructions

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Method 2 (and 3) are intended to completely wipe Office from your computer

Here is a link to a diff Office uninstaller:

.             http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/0/5/505878EB-FFC4-4DF0-A526-B1165BFA6C35/o15-ctrremove.diagcab

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This captures shows a computer with 2 Office installations, 365 and 2016 Pro Plus (that needs activation to work)

Office File Account - 365 activated Pro Plus 2016 not activated.jpg

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