Well you’re not alone! We had some difficulties when we came to activate Microsoft Office 2008 on a new iMac running Snow Leopard with a disc we bought from Solution Inc in Chichester. According to Microsoft tech support the software that comes pre-installed on Apple Macs cannot be activated with a Microsoft activation key because it’s a Digital River installation. They say you must remove the pre-installed Microsoft Office 2008 software to enable the Microsoft Office 2008 software on disk to be installed and activated.
Follow these instructions to uninstall all of the previous installation Microsoft Office 2008 software
- Quit
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