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No way to use MS Office without an MS account?
I spent the extra money to get what I thought was a standalone version of MS Office. It's not 365. And yet, I couldn't activate it on my new computer without an MS account. Why? I don't want to log in to have to use it, and that's what I thought I was purchasing. Now it uploads everything I do and I do NOT want it to do that. I want it saved on my hard drive (and I do my own physical backups).
So I realize this is probably more of a MS issue, but since I paid Dell to get what I thought was a version that wouldn't allow MS to snoop into everything I do, it's really a Dell issue as well. If this was going to be the case, I think Dell should have warned me that the program would be utterly useless without logging in. (It gave me fits with that, told me I couldn't activate it without the account, and then even when I did acquiesce--reluctantly!!!--it still sent me in circles for a while saying it couldn't verify it. Literally took me a couple of hours before it would do it. Otherwise, I could do NOTHING in Word except type. No print outs, no saving, nothing. That is definitely something I think a buyer should be told before they spend the money to get it.)
Does anyone know any way to run MS Office WITHOUT it being online and connected to an account? Or at least can anyone tell me how to STOP it from uploading my documents automatically to the OneDrive for the account? Some of that has to do with storage space. I do a LOT of documents (I'm a writer) and other things and I simply won't have room for everything if it keeps storing things to the cloud account--and I don't intend to pay for something I didn't want in the first place.
Sorry to be annoyed, but I seriously feel that Win 10 combined with this version of MS Office is a huge violation of my privacy--and I don't know how to fight against it. I want them out of my business!
Any help on how to stop their meddling would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.
DELL-Jesse L
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January 19th, 2018 05:00
chalkbrd,
Unfortunately, with the newer versions of office along with Windows 10, Microsoft requires having an account setup with their company. I do not know of any way of getting around the MS Account.