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I bought a laptop 2nd hand a few years ago and at some point after an update I started receiving the warning "product activation failed". However this has never stopped me using the apps. I then had work done to my laptop in November and when I got it back they had upgraded it to Windows 10. Again, it worked fine but I have just tried to use it (first time since early December) and I find that I cannot edit existing excel spreadsheets or create new windows documents. I have googled and it would appear it is probably because of the subscription issue. I will take it back to Laconic tomorrow but, in the meantime, does anybody know if there is anything I can do please?

Have pm'd you.

If its microsoft wanting their rental fee go for Libre office it allows you to crate/ access documents excel word power-point etc for free
https://www.libreoffice.org/

Thanks wanderer I will check it out. Do you know if I will be able to access my existing documents using Libre please?

Yes you will or I have been able to
I find google docs ok but not as good all you need to do is save the new docs in as microsoft format

Great thanks.

Wanderer, do you have any idea of the space needed to download Libre please? I've got such little space left on my laptop
Many thanks

From their site , "Up to 1.5 GB available hard disk space" (my underline) - it depends on how many components you want to instal....