How to unlock microsoft office on windows xp?

Question

i have a windows xp laptop and when i open microsoft word office and try to type it says it cant because the selection is locked. Idk what I did to it to get it like that and idk how to fix it myself. I cant afford to have a store fix it right now so someone help mmeeeee

Answer 1

That sounds like a free trial copy of Microsoft Office that was good for 25 uses (of all Office programs combined) or 60 days. At the end of that time it stops letting you edit your files or create new ones. You have to purchase Microsoft Office 2010, or at least Word 2010, to do that.



Note: The 25-character product key on the computer case or laptop bottom is NOT the key for MS Office. It’s only for the Windows operating system.



Here are some of your options for legally paying less than full price for Microsoft Office 2010:



First, if you're a student, you may qualify for the Office 2010 Professional Academic edition at a pretty good price ($79.95):



http://www.microsoft.com/student/



Second, if you’re interested in buying just Word, check out this URL, especially the second group of listings.



http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/office-2010-pricing-information-HA101810737.aspx



Also, if you have files that are locked up in the new Word 2010 file format (.docx), here’s a possibility for salvaging them. Microsoft offers a free Compatibility pack that allows earlier versions of Word (and Microsoft Works) to read and write Word 2010 files. If you have access to an earlier version, this can at least give you back your documents. Some new features of Word 2010 will be lost or converted to straight text in the conversion to the earlier version.



Good luck.

Answer 2

ok i think this normally happens when you only have a trial version which has expired so you may have to buy a product key

or the easy alternative is to download a program called open office this is a free software (open source) which is a program very simular to word but does have its differencies and it is compatible with word all you have to do is when saving save in compatibility mode for word

if you do own a copy of word try reinstalling it and re entering the product key

Answer 3

It is saying that because it thinks that you did not activate the product. What version of word do you have? If you have word 2007, click the orb on the top left, then click "word options", then click "resources", and click activate. Then find your product key on the box that the software came in and type it in. It should unlock everything now!

Answer 4

How to Unlock Microsoft Word 2007

http://www.ehow.com/how_5481744_unlock-microsoft-word.html



How do you unlock a document in Microsoft Word 2003

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_unlock_a_document_in_Microsoft_Word_I_tried_doing_what_it_said_in_the_Help_feture_but_had_no_luck._Everything_is_greyed_out_so_Im_not_able_to_click_on_anything.I_need_this_ASAP_for_workty