Transferring Office 2019 from old iMac to new...
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All on Fri Nov 24 15:46:35 2023
1) Worked.
2) It's complicated.
3) Would have gone smoothly under an older v. of Mac OS (apparently).
4) Since the first thing the installer does is update Office, it went to
a point where re-registering it became impossible.
5) With MS Support chat agent online, it took about 20 minutes to go
through the steps. (De-install, clean up the ~/Library, download a
special downloader (to DL an older v. of Office), run that, stop it from
doing the update, and then the registration went well).
Really complicated. I could do it but an average user would not have
found it easy - it took knowing where ~/Library is (Apple for some
reason hide it from the user unless you make it visible - another not
obvious thing to do - I already had it visible of course).
Then navigating two sub folders there, locating specific folders,
trashing those, etc. and so on.
Tedious.
But - finally - done and I can squeeze another 5+ years out of it - I
hope. Cheap bastard! Yep.
Now. To do the same for my SO's MBA. Except that was never de-installed/de-registered from the prior MBA which has been wiped and sold.
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