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Suddenly I am unable to edit any previously saved document with my MS Office Suite 2021 purchased.
Mod note: moved from Windows for Home > Windows 11 > Windows update
A family of Microsoft word processing software products for creating web, email, and print documents.
Can you open Word?
With it open, can you use File > Open to open a document?
Do you see any error messages?
I can open Word. However, can't edit, copy paste, etc. Message is that I need to activate (purchase) 365.
Itried renewing Office 2021 license and received error code 16
Error 16 may indicate a license issue. Recently, we saw a lot of errors with Office 2021 under macOS, and this was fixed in a recent update.
Just to be clear, is Windows your operating system?