MacBook Pro hard drive failure. Replaced it. Office programs dont function. Office:mac requests serial # How do we obtain old serial number from Microsoft.
Need insight for reinstalling Office for Mac 2011and recovering Outlook file -- am running OS x 10.6.8 on my iMac currently; I have a backup of my Outlook file from Office for Mac 2011 (Time Machine did not save it properly so I made a separate backup on an additional external hard drive).  However, I don't  know if I should reinstall the Office for Mac software first (from the original install disks) on new hard drive before copying backup Outlook file over from backup drive or not.  Clearly, the backup file has a more updated version for Outlook for Mac 2011 than the installation disks, given the Microsoft updates that have routinely occurred since the time I purchased the software.  Please advise, if you can.
My iMac had a Hard Drive failure but was able to be backed up before the HD was replaced by Apple. The new HD had a complete restore done with every thing back on the new HD. When I went to open Office 2010/11  ( Outlook ) it asked me for the key to activate Office. I put in the key that came with the software disk but it says that it is the wrong key. What is going on??