Have (actually "had") a laptop with Office 2013 Home & Student installed. Got a new laptop and gave my old laptop to my wife. I did a clean reinstall for her and set up the laptop using her Microsoft Account.

Now I cannot seem to activate Office using the original product code. The activation process wants to know the MS Account that was used to activate Office (mine). I exited the activation process at this point.

I don't want to set up myself as another user on my wife's laptop. If I enter my account where asked, will it cause my account to be set up as another user? If so, any way to avoid this. Looking for suggestions? I thought Office was linked to a computer, not the user.



I did a search and don't see where this has been addressed.

Thanks.