It's fine, just not the thing in this instance. Brad bought his Dell on October 25th, the day before Dell announced that all future purchases would be eligible for a free upgrade to Vista. Those on other versions can only upgrade to variants of Office 365. Have another old laptop with LibreOffice on it. People buying Office 2010 now will get a free upgrade to Office 2013 when it arrives, Microsoft has said.

Or a way to download and re-install.Īnd as luck would have it, do have a few macros and one third party add in (OpenSolver) which needs Excel. There might have been a backup on the original Dell HD which likely was lost to my SSD upgrade if it existed.īut short story is didn't work so I'm looking for a 'manual' fix. McAfee award-winning Antivirus and VPN, now includes Identity & Privacy Protection Complete online protection for you and your family, available on PC. In this case appears to require the original DVD and will not download a fix and just stopped. This Office Suite is free and very compatible with Excel although I'm not sure how well it handles Macros. That being said, if the repair does not work check out Free Office. Choose Update Now to manually check for and install Office updates. Click Enable Updates if the option is available. Under Product Information, choose Update Options. When you select Uninstall it will give the option to repair. Click File > Account (or Office Account if you opened Outlook 2013). There is a repair option for Office under the Add/Remove Program section in Control Panel.

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