Venting some frustration · 9:30am Aug 14th, 2023
Hey guys, just had to vent something I've been fighting with since my last Blog Post.
So as you all know one of my computers' motherboards kicked the bucket and I got that fixed, but I've been having issues since then. Not with the computer itself, that's working fine. What I'm having issues with is Microsoft Word 2007, which I use for my stories, story notes, and other personal projects. It worked fine until the motherboard died, and while I can still read those docs. I can't really do anything with them until reactivation.
Easy fix right...
NOPE! Because now I can't get it to reactivate and I'm at the end of my rope after trying many things out and not. One. Thing has worked.
Now I get it's on an old XP machine and that's fine; I'm only using it for my word docs. and pictures (since the auto-assign being stuck on permanently on Windows 7 and above is total BULL!) now so no trouble. However, since the activation thing was connected to the old motherboard I needed reactivate it for this one, but since the phone option is no longer available I have to do it over the net, which by itself is not a problem. But when I try to do it with the over the net option it starts... and just crashes, each and every time. 
Fortunately there is some good news in all this frustration; My mother has another option I could use called LibreOffice, which is what she uses. So I have that as a fallback if I can't get Word working again.
Thanks for listening and letting me vent, if worse comes to worst I'll use transfer the docs. to LibreOffice or something, I mean I've already backed-up them so I've got nothing to lost at this point.
Sorry for all the computer troubles you're having. That sort of crap is never fun to deal with.
Sorry to hear that, buddy.
I rely on Microsoft Word as well, so when it's not working, I panic since most of my story stuff is on there.
If I may suggest, when Word gets dicey for me, I like to copy and paste my work onto Google Docs. It's not perfect, but it does let me work until I can figure out what the problem with Word is (usually, the problems always required some sort of update
Always drove me nuts how often tech needs to be upgraded)
Not sure if this will help, but either way, I hope that you find a solution to the Word problem. And you know you can always talk to us if you need to vent again.
Hang in there, buddy.
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Thanks for the support guys, and I have an update; I've found out why it wouldn't reactivate.
It turns out, the activation is hard-coded or something to the first motherboard it was activated on so I'd need to deactivate it first. Normally this wouldn't be an issue... but it's a little hard to do that when the motherboard is dead, I can't even get to the BIOS on it.
So from the looks of things I'm gonna have to use something else for those docs, LibreOffice is looking better and better as my frustration builds up.
I'll let you know if things change.
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Update: So after some headache I tried LibreOffice...
AND IT WORKS!
I am able to edit my docs again!
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Huzzah!
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Awesome!