Help installing office for mac book air

Hi! I just got my mac book air and I have a license key for microsoft office 2011 for mac. I downloaded the free trial so I could enter my license key but I can't use it because Mac won't let me open it. Can anyone tell me what to do?? thank you!!

Gatekeeper is preventing you to install Microsoft Office > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5290
To install Office, you have two possibilities:
1. Open the installer as I told you on the first comment.
2. Open System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General, and set "Allow applications downloaded from" to "Anywhere"

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