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Hello All,

I installed Office 2010 and I'm able to use it just fine. However, when I go to File>Help>Change Product Key to activate it, the box to enter the office key is grayed out. I cannot type the key.

Does any know a fix for this? I need to activate Office.

Thanks in advance.

Edited by erikfig

Very interesting, Activating is critical because otherwise you are stuck with a 30 day trial and then it locks you out.
Honestly I havn't even tried games or programs that utilize the internet through PlayOnLinux.
I have used Steam and it downloads games from the internet and allows you to browse the store.
Which version of Wine are you using?

You may want to read-up on WineHQ about Office 2010 and problems other people are facing...

Same problem here. I tried to install office 2010 on different machines
Versions:
* Office 2010 professional-plus-win32-de
* pol 4.1.1 and 4.2.1
* wine 1.5.16 and 1.5.31 32 bit
* ubuntu 13.4 64 bit
everything works fine only the activationkey inputfield is grayed out. No problems in the debug-console.
CrossOver 11 was able to install and activate that office.version.
Is there anybody who was able to activate office 2010.
What office-Version works?

Ask, if I can help with further infomations.

Yours
Arne

Try to install ie6. That may help.

PlayOnLinux -> Configure -> select your Office virtual drive -> Install Components tab -> ie6

I have seen installing is fix internet based issues with a few things. Give that a shot.

Also, make sure you are running PlayOnLinux version 4.2.1. We don't support 4.1.1 anymore, as its really old. Upgrade your PlayOnLinux version before doing what I said above.

I would also like to know if changing riched20.dll override mode can help:
Right click on shortcut > Configure Wine > Libraries > riched20.dll > Modify
Change from "native" to "native, builtin" and validate.
No guarantees, just something worth trying.

Edited by petch

Hi Petch,
you're impressing me!!! That was the solution.
Changing riched20.dll as you described to "native, builtin" fixed it, even with POL4.1.1 !!!
Thank you very much!
Now I will upgrade to POL 4.2.1 and install IE6.

Awesome!
Don't forget to mark your post as "solved"

Dont even install IE6 if that worked. :) I think IE6 installs that anyway. Correct, Petch?

My happyness came a little bit to early:
I can paste in my produktkey and it is accepted with a green check mark. But than the setup runs a while finishing with a "Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 configuration did not complete successfully".
In KB there is an issue for that http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2528753
It says that the "Network Service is missing permissions on this folder".
* What kind of Network Service is ment here?
the tool called icacls is not found in the cmd. What can be done to solve this?

UGH! Microsoft network services? Seriously?
Its got to be some DRM process running in the background.

hmmm. Maybe you should try to install IE6? Lol. Im not sure what permissions its looking for.

I try to install ie6 and get an "IOPL not enabled" error when strating word than.

Idunno then. I use native open source alternatives to office. Haven't needed to use it for anything in years. Most people don't need office. Foss could be for you.

I totally agree with you.
But:
I mixed use with MS and Opensource damages the layout of documents. So in our company MS is standard, thats why I'm forced to use it.
I would not belive, that there isn't a solution for that problem. You say Office 2010 is  officially supported by POL now. This should include activation! Otherwise - as you mentioned above - it is useless...

Anyone who is not able to activate MS Office 2010
Please give a "me too" +version informations to this thread. It might help to find the way to solve the problem.

Edited by dasarne

I totally understand work requiring Microsoft Office as a standard. Any job I've worked at uses it and Windows of course.

At home I use Libre Office and Google Drive. It supplies all of my office needs.

But if you can't get Office 2010 working at all, it may be a good idea to dual-boot Windows.

> But if you can't get Office 2010 working at all...

Sorry, but CrossOverOffice has started with doing just this.

Oh, so you have gotten it to work in CrossOver?

CrossOver is really just WIne with a pricetag. The fixes in CrossOver usually trickle down to Wine eventually.

You say Office 2010 is officially supported by POL now. This should include activation! Otherwise - as you mentioned above - it is useless...

Ummm, who said that? And again, this isnt Windows, so it doesnt always work correctly.

Also, did you check the Supported Software section of our site?

Seems as though there is a scrip to install Office 2010, and ALSO a DIFFERENT script for Office 2010 Activation..... Try it.

http://www.playonmac.com/en/supported_apps-3-0.html

Also, if it works fine in Crossover, and crossover is so cheap, AND its for a business, why try and save a couple of dollars when you can run it just fine in CrossOver? Any businessman would be happy to pay a small fee for that program as opposed to a whole set of windows installs.

CrossOver is really just WIne with a pricetag. The fixes in CrossOver usually trickle down to Wine eventually.

Sorry for metioning the "competitor". I tried to install Office 2010 with CrossOverOffice and copy the drive_c folder. But Office recognized the shift and tries to license again. Again sorry for trying that. But I really want to leave these virtual mashine strategy. A virtual mashine on a Notebook is resource consuming. The wine approach is much better.

You say Office 2010 is officially supported by POL now. This should include activation! Otherwise - as you mentioned above - it is useless...

Ummm, who said that? And again, this isnt Windows, so it doesnt always work correctly.

I was wrong in thinking that. Your focus lays on games. But your software is cool, fast and technically mature. By a hair Office will work...

Also, did you check the Supported Software section of our site?

Seems as though there is a scrip to install Office 2010, and ALSO a DIFFERENT script for Office 2010 Activation..... Try it.

That needs an MS activation server, that I don't have.

Also, if it works fine in Crossover, and crossover is so cheap, AND its for a business, why try and save a couple of dollars when you can run it just fine in CrossOver? Any businessman would be happy to pay a small fee for that program as opposed to a whole set of windows installs.

Again I'm sad to needle you. CrossOver does't support the newest wineversions. Your solution is more flexible.
Hope that pours oil on the troubled water.