Office 2016 Won'T Install Of Windows

The Sign In button had been replaced by a Cancel button. Okay, fine. I still had my receipt page open in my browser, with a nice Contact Us for help button available, so I opened up a chat conversation with a Microsoft support rep: DG: I am trying to sign in to activate, and it recognizes my email and password, but asks if I want to use Microsoft Account or Work Account.

Most of you know that I moved from an Exchange hosting provider to Office 365 a few years ago.

Although I had Office 2013 licenses as an educator through school, I moved to Office 365 to gain access to Office 365-hosted Exchange.

Then, just about a year ago, I moved off of Exchange to Gmail, and havent looked back.

Although I cancelled my Office 365 Midsize Business plan, I still have my Office 2013 license for my PCs and my Office 2011 license for my Macs.

I get downloadable Office from the school where I teach, but they only have Office 2011 for Mac.

As you probably know, Office 2016 for Mac was released a few weeks ago, and its much more in line with the PC version of Office 2013 were all used to.

Office 2016 Won'T Install Of Windows

Office 2011 for Mac is so bad that I have a Parallels install of Windows on most of my Macs, just to run Office 2013 in a Windows virtual machine.

I do a tremendous amount of work in Word and PowerPoint, and I just wanted them to run natively on my Macs.

I wanted to use Office 2016 and stop all the weirdness that I have to go through when running a Windows instance to edit a Word file.

Unfortunately, while the university has an Office 2011 for Mac license, they havent yet updated to Office 2016 for Mac, which will probably be sometime this fall.

So, at only 89 for the year (with a ten buck academic discount), I bought my own license.

You can see my receipt right there, in the screenshot below.

After a year or so away from doing Microsoft installs, Id forgotten just how much of a DMV-like experience dealing with Microsoft products can be.

Its just the account of the hassles I went through attempting to do what should have been a very simple process.

The tl;dr of Microsoft is often the same: the hassles you go through in an attempt to do what should have been a very simple process.

The first install Look at that Thank you for your order screenshot carefully.

Do you see the nice blue Install Office button Yeah, so did I.

I even clicked it.

The result was a downloaded installer package, which I then ran.

Clicking Done resulted in the installer launching Word, with a nice blue intro screen.

A prompt showed up asking if I wanted to use my Office account or my company account.

That was, admittedly, a bit baffling because I bought Office Home edition, but hey, Im tough, I can handle it.

After thinking on it a bit, I ascertained that the message came up because my email address is a custom domain, not something like gmail.com or live.com, etc.

Since I wasnt using an live.com or an outlook.com account, I selected the company option.

Okay, fine. I still had my receipt page open in my browser, with a nice Contact Us for help button available, so I opened up a chat conversation with a Microsoft support rep: DG: I am trying to sign in to activate, and it recognizes my email and password, but asks if I want to use Microsoft Account or Work Account.

Office 2016 For Mac Won'T Install