Microsoft Office Home & Student 2021 | One-time purchase for 1 PC or Mac| Download
[{'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-3 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Experienced user of many different versions of Office, both for PC and Mac, and their so-called "connected services" and "experiences" that involve their OneDrive. I wanted nothing to do with OneDrive, or their annual 365 subscription, so I waited for this 2021 release. Very disappointed, but not surprised, to see Microsoft default configured the Office installation to use OneDrive even though I did a custom install and unselected OneDrive. Worse, the installation/configuration defaults the Preferences, Privacy tab to opt-into Connected Services, all 3 "Experiences" that include their "analyzation" of YOUR data AND the connected experience that includes OneDrive. Unselecting all 3 caused the app the hang. Upon forcing the app down, starting, it hung again. Force the app down and restart. Not a surprise to see it showed my name/profile, but that the software was not longer activated. Force to re-enter my credentials. Alas, it finally appears I have Word without it being connected to OneDrive and remains "activated". I miss the days of entering long product keys to activate software.\n\nUpdate: I was experiencing repeated problems with the Office apps either hanging at launch or forgetting their activation every single time I quit the app. Other Office 2021 users have reported similar experiences online. There is a Microsoft "License Removal Tool" that removes all previous Microsoft Offices licenses from your computer. (In my case, I had the 2016 license and had tried out the 365 version as well recently.). After running that tool and reactivating a single Office 2021 app, the suite started to remember my activation after I quit the apps.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-4 review-rating', 'review_body': 'It is a convoluted situation that led to this purchase. I was notified by Intuit that I would need to move from Mojave to Catalina in order to run TurboTax 2021. When I upgraded to Catalina I was notified MS Office Home & Student 2011 would not run on Catalina which led to this purchase. When I installed 2021 I was then prompted to activate it by activating one of the programs in it. When I tried to activate Excel I was directed to the App Store and directed to 365 which is MS Office tied to a subscription. I had been warned about 365 and did not want it. Because I tried and failed to activate Excel, it along with Word and Power Point were blocked with a circle with a slash. At this point I cannot use MS Office Home & Student 2021 on my iMac so I had to take it to my local computer shop and have it fixed. $85.00 later I have my iMac back and MS Office Home and Student 2021 appears to be working fine with just enough changes from 2011 to cause some confusion. One thing that is really annoying is the changes made to the tints of the colors used to highlight. I maintain several databases in Excel and now I have different shades of green in cells. None of the new shades of green match the old one. Yikes! I have a choice of either accepting multiple tints in my spreadsheets, with some from 2011 and some from 2021, or going back and changing the tints, cell by cell, from the 2011 version to the 2021 version. Bert Lance, formerly of the Carter Administration had a favorite expression "If it ain\'t broke don\'t fix it". I have only had MS Office Home & Student 2021 for a few days and there may be more surprises coming in the future.\nBTW Amazon\'s Customer Service rep tried to help in that tempt to activate the software but was unable to do so. She gave me a toll free # for tech support at Microsoft. I challenge anyone to reach a human being at that #. Everything was voice response and not helpful. Eventually I was directed to a URL that was supposed to be a tech problem solver. When I found the solution to my problem I printed a hard copy and tried the suggested solution. When the solution did not work I was off to the computer repair shop. Enough for now!'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I feel like the few negative reviews saying it doesn\'t work just didn\'t know how to follow directions. It\'s hard to find the games and software library on the main page, but if you follow the link in the email you get it takes you right to the product key. It didn\'t take the first time I put it in but just did "try again" and then it accepted it when I logged in again. Just follow directions. It was nice to save $25 vs buying directly from Microsoft.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Product key was available in Amazon account\'s "Digital games and software." Successful macOS download.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I tried calling Microsoft and didn’t get answers. They don’t have live customer support. I couldn’t get it to work. I don’t know how Microsoft can sell a product to Amazon and not stand behind it.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 7, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'I tried to download and never got the product to work now trying to get a refund'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 9, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'This product code did not work for me and I am not satisfied at all. I orders from amazon alot and I do not see how to get my refund back.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-1 review-rating', 'review_body': 'You cannot get this product on disk. Only download. Adds Office Teams. INSISTS you enter a phone #, then it makes a new account just with your phone number. It did not install as a separate program!! It adds itself to my existing Office earlier version. The program does NOT recognize the newly bought and paid for version. AND it carried problems I was having with the old version and now it still has those problems. PLUS you no longer have a product ID. You have no "About" to click.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2021', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': 'Needed update to my Office 2007, since it was no longer working on my PC, so waited for Office 2021.\nHad trouble in the beginning, but checked my downloads folder and easily installed it and had no further problems.'}, {'review_meta': 'Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2022', 'review_star': 'a-icon a-icon-star a-star-5 review-rating', 'review_body': "I purchased Microsoft Office program for download to my computer. I prefer to keep my programs and files on my own computer, not in the cloud. Unfortunately, my computer was hit by a power surge when lightening struck close to the house. It fried my computer and I had to get a new one. Unfortunately, my backups would not restore to the new computer so I'm unable to reload this program which I've only used for a few months. I'm unable to download a copy from Amazon because of the one time rule. If anyone has any suggestions as to how I can get another download, I would very much appreciate it. Thank you!"}]