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1. HOW TO REDOWNLOAD OFFICE 2016 PREINSTALLED ON DELL COMPTUER LICENSE KEY
2. HOW TO REDOWNLOAD OFFICE 2016 PREINSTALLED ON DELL COMPTUER INSTALL

I guess I had to initially do the work but it wasn't that bad

HOW TO REDOWNLOAD OFFICE 2016 PREINSTALLED ON DELL COMPTUER INSTALL

I can just have a tech run through the install checklist and its completed. We support dental practices only so this method works fine for us since it's usually 5 to 15 computers at a time, maybe just a replacement one here and there too. If you record the keys and associate them to the computer you can be sure to know which stub installer to use for activation.Įdit. Note that if you have many installs, the account only differentiates by the activation date. Our layout works now and things are good. This 'installs' Office like a program again (whatever the exact terminology is) so it's in programs and features and also all the program files are where they should be. So what we do is activate office as above, then take that stub installer and install that. Because it's an app, the location of the necessary info for the layout isn't there. When we include the necessary info in the script for this start layout, the start layout is missing all the office programs. Anyway, we use a specific start layout that includes Control Panel, This PC, Word, Excel, Outlook so new users will get a clean look. In fact while I now think of it, I'm not sure where it is. Why was this important? Well it turns out Office is an 'app' on these OEM computers I'm buying and so the location of the shortcuts, etc are not located in their usual spots. I mentioned office isn't in control panel -> programs and features. I've written about a portion of this before, just search the group for 'office'. If you don't include it in $GoodApps, the Office app will be stripped off and you will not be able to activate it without jumping through hoops. So if the license is activated like this and then you stop and run decrap on the system with office 'apps included that in the section $GoodApps like this ($GoodApps = "store|calculator|sticky|windows.photos|soundrecorder|mspaint|snippingtool| sktop") things will be OK. but it's not listed in control panel -> programs to remove.

HOW TO REDOWNLOAD OFFICE 2016 PREINSTALLED ON DELL COMPTUER LICENSE KEY

Once that's done, this particular office license key will be in the account along with a stub installer.īack on the computer, office appears to work fine, Word, etc. I do this generally with a distribution list for the particular company I'm working with. When we receive the computers, you can activate office by launching word and entering your MS account credentials. This works fine, at least with all the new Dell machines I've bought over the past few years (2016, 2019 office)