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Cannot open Microsoft Office after copying it across from external HD with recovered data from my broken macbook HD.

I have recently had to replace the hard drive in my macbook pro. All the data has been recovered from my old one onto an external HD and I have copied over everything from this onto the new HD on my macbook. Everything is fine except for Microsoft Office (2011).


Although I can see all the Microsoft Office programs in the Applications folder, I can't open any of them. It sort of tries, but then doesn't open. All my word, excel, etc documents have the little 'W' or 'X' in the icon and I can preview them, but it won't open.


So far I have copied Office and Messenger into Applications, 'Microsoft' into Application Support, 'Microsoft' into Preferences, and the 'Microsoft-Userdata' into Documents.


Have I missed something? I don't have the original CD or product key anymore so don't think I can completely reinstall.


Thanks.

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011)

Posted on Oct 26, 2013 12:17 PM

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Cannot open Microsoft Office after copying it across from external HD with recovered data from my broken macbook HD.

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